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Technical Program Manager

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New York, NY$139.9k - $189.2kFull-timePosted yesterday

About the role

Fauna Robotics is seeking a Technical Program Manager to own quality for robot behavior and data collection, maintain test suites for releases and policies, and ensure high data quality and robust testing across hardware and software in a robotics environment.

Responsibilities

  • Own the release test suite for robot behavior and teleoperation. Write, maintain, and run test plans for updates to the teleoperation stack, internal and external software releases, and new robot policies.
  • Maintain a repeatable core regression suite that every change must pass, and extend it with deeper, adversarial test cases designed to surface subtle, intermittent, or interaction-dependent failures across the operator, the teleoperation stack, and the robot.
  • Run tests hands-on with experimental robots and in simulation. Write detailed, reproducible test reports and bug reports, and give clear go/no-go recommendations for each release and each new policy.
  • Track issues through to resolution with software, controls, hardware, and ML teams. Keep a record of known issues, how to reproduce them, and workarounds.
  • Support data quality through hands-on, on-robot testing: help run benchmark collections, review recordings against task requirements, flag problem episodes, and feed the failure patterns you find back to the teams that own the process and tooling.
  • Pilot new data collection tasks alongside data scientists and research engineers: translate research intent into an executable protocol, run the first sessions yourself, and report back on feasibility, throughput, and data quality.
  • Validate the data collection tools and methods behind each task before they're relied on at scale — define acceptance criteria, quantify failure modes, and make the go/no-go call.
  • Onboard and mentor new data collectors and QA team members on our teleoperation stack, the data collection management system, the ingestion and annotation tools, and how to report bugs well.
  • Coordinate the day-to-day test and benchmark activities that data collectors take part in. Work with the data collection program manager, who owns the data collectors' work and priorities, to schedule robot time, sessions, and test coverage.
  • Assess the spaces and resources that testing and collection depend on — lab and home-like environments, robot availability, headsets and peripherals, fixtures and props — and flag what's missing before it becomes a bottleneck.
  • Keep test documentation, checklists, SOPs, and run books up to date as the robot, the app, and our policies change.
  • Work safely around experimental hardware, and hold the people you train to the same standard.

Qualifications

  • 3+ years of technical product or program management experience
  • Experience managing programs across cross functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules
  • 3+ years of experience in quality assurance, test, or validation of hardware or hardware-plus-software products (robotics, consumer electronics, automotive, aerospace, XR, or similar), or in technical program management for such products
  • Experience writing and running structured test plans and SOPs, and producing detailed, reproducible test and bug reports with logs, timestamps, media, and system context
  • Experience working hands-on with physical robots or other experimental hardware in a lab or test environment, including diagnosing failures that span hardware, firmware, and software
  • Experience teleoperating robots, or extensive hands-on use of VR/XR headsets
  • Linux and command-line proficiency — able to run scripts and terminal tooling to drive, inspect, and debug hardware directly
  • Able to work in a VR headset for extended sessions (multiple hours at a time) and to work safely around experimental robots, which includes standing, moving, and occasionally lifting equipment
  • Able to lift up to 10 lbs and wear equipment weighing up to 30 lbs; continuous hand/eye coordination, fine manipulation, and kinesthetic awareness
  • Experience training, onboarding, or mentoring others on technical tools or processes
  • Ability to write technical documentation precise enough for an operator or support agent to follow without the author present

Skills

Required:Test planningQA coordinationRobotics hardware experienceTeleoperation

Benefits

  • Health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription)
  • Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans
  • EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line
  • Flexible Spending Accounts
  • Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage
  • 401(k) matching
  • Paid time off
  • Parental leave
Last updated Oct 25, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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