Lead Robotics Software Quality Engineer

At Alert Venture Foundry (AVF), we build robotics systems that span embedded hardware, real-time software, cloud infrastructure, and user-facing applications. Ensuring reliability across these layers is critical. We’re looking for a Lead Software Quality Engineer to define and drive testing strategy for software running on hardware-integrated systems. You’ll own quality practices across embedded, control, cloud, and UI layers while mentoring SQA engineers and shaping how systems are validated and released. This is a hands‑on leadership role focused on defining quality, building validation systems, and ensuring real‑world performance. This job will be four days per week onsite in North Billerica, MA. What You’ll Do: Define and lead the software quality and testing strategy across embedded, robotics, and cloud systems. Establish test plans and methodologies—what to test, how to test, and how to prioritize based on risk. Design and evolve testing infrastructure, including simulation, HIL/SIL, and CI‑integrated workflows. Guide development of test automation frameworks and ensure integration into CI/CD. Integrate testing into CI/CD pipelines for reliable, repeatable validation. Create and present test reports and quality metrics to inform release readiness. Define quality standards, coverage expectations, and release criteria. Leverage telemetry, logging, and observability for validation and debugging. Drive testability improvements in software architecture. Mentor SQA engineers and support field validation and failure analysis. What We’re Looking For: 6+ years in software quality, test engineering, or system validation, ideally with hardware‑integrated or robotics systems. Experience owning test strategy and planning across complex systems. Strong understanding of unit, integration, system, regression, and performance testing. Experience designing or guiding testing infrastructure (simulation, HIL/SIL, CI‑based validation). Familiarity with test automation and ability to guide automation efforts. Experience with CI/CD tools (e.g., GitHub Actions, Jenkins). Experience creating test reports, metrics, and dashboards. Strong debugging skills across software and system-level behavior. Ability to influence cross‑functional teams. Bachelor’s or Master’s in a relevant technical field. Bonus Points For: Robotics tools (ROS2, MAVLink, Gazebo, Isaac Sim). Experience contributing to automation frameworks (Python or similar). Familiarity with observability tools (Grafana, ELK, Prometheus). Embedded or edge software testing experience. Background in safety‑critical systems or startup environments. Why AVF? Define what quality means for real‑world robotics systems. Build testing strategy and infrastructure from the ground up. Work across hardware, control systems, cloud, and UI. Influence release decisions and system reliability. Help establish foundational quality practices across ventures. AVF is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds who are excited to ensure the reliability of complex, real‑world systems. #J-18808-Ljbffr Alert Venture Foundry