Software Test Developer, SDET - Robotics
NVIDIA· Engineer, SW QA Test Dev
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About the role
Senior SWQA Test Developer for NVIDIA Isaac robotics QA in China, owning China-specific validation across Isaac products, robot hardware bring-up testing, factory software validation, and Robot Platform Certification for Chinese partners; emphasizes AI-assisted QA tooling and cross-team collaboration.
Responsibilities
- Apply AI-assisted tooling (LLM-based test generation, copilots, agent frameworks) to accelerate test authoring, failure triage, and coverage analysis
- Develop test strategy, detailed test plans, and structured test cases based on product requirements and partner use cases
- Validate full-stack behavior across local partner integrations and China-specific deployment environments
- Lead bring-up testing for new robot hardware platforms entering production; define and execute factory software test plans covering functional verification, calibration, diagnostics, and manufacturing acceptance criteria
- Execute end-to-end testing of GR00T-based robot action policies on China-available robot hardware; validate policy rollout, sim-to-real transfer fidelity, teleoperation data quality
- Support data collection and maintain robot learning infrastructure; build dashboards and automation to track test coverage, fleet health, and data pipeline quality across robot deployments
- Identify, record, document, and regress internal and external bugs; provide root cause analysis and statistical quality reports to global and local stakeholders
- Collaborate with Engineering and QA teams globally (India, US) as well as local Chinese robot OEM and partner teams
- Manage fleet of robots in Lab including hardware and software updates
Qualifications
- Masters or Equivalent degree in CS/CE/IT/ECE/EEE
- 3 - 4 plus years of hands-on software QA or test engineering
- experience across an embedded or robotics software stack
- Excellent programming skills with Python and/or C/C++ and able to write logical scripts/code from scratch
- Solid Linux fundamentals: shell scripting, system debugging, process and network tools
- Good knowledge in areas of Robotics perception, navigation, manipulation and simulation
- Knowledge of robotics simulator engine and ability to develop automated test scenarios using the same
- Experience using AI-assisted development tools (Copilot, Cursor, LLM-based agents) for test generation or QA workflow automation
- Ability to engage effectively with Chinese robot OEM and partner engineering teams; strong written and verbal communication in both Chinese and English
- Hands on experience with functional safety standards (ISO 26262), particularly in autonomous systems.
- Passion for debugging complex failures and driving issues to root cause
Skills
Required:PythonC/C++LinuxRobotics perception, navigation, manipulationRobotics simulatorAI-assisted QA toolingCommunication (Chinese/English)
Benefits
- Competitive salaries
- Generous benefits package
- Career growth opportunities
Last updated Sep 11, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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