Senior Engineering Lead, Quality Assurance (Full Stack)

Key Skills

Apache Kafka, AWS, C++, Cypress, Data Warehousing, HTML, JavaScript, JIRA, Python Programming, Selenium, Tableau

Job Description

About us…

Gather AI is a supply chain robotics company founded by the PhDs from Carnegie Mellon’s Robotics Institute who created the world’s first provably-safe autonomous helicopter. We have developed an Inventory-as-a -Service platform where fully autonomous drones collect warehouse inventory data at a press of a button.

The warehouses we serve have typically misplaced over 10% of their inventory worth $10+ million dollars/warehouse (seriously!). Their current manual techniques for taking inventory are failing due to the e-commerce boom and made worse due to acute labor shortages. Our drones take inventory 15x faster than humans with over 95% accuracy without the need for humans to climb dangerous heights. We are the technology leader in this new market and the opportunity is huge, with a TAM of over $20B. Our drones are fully deployed in over a dozen warehouses and have scanned over 500K pallet locations.

We are a pure-software robotics company and our key innovation is the world’s only autonomy and machine learning engine that can solve this problem with commodity hardware in GPS-denied environments. That means we avoid all of the hardware development pitfalls of traditional robotics companies and we can scale 10x faster. The robotics industry is starting to enter its “Google era,” and we are leading the charge.

About you

As a Quality Assurance (QA) Engineer at Gather AI, you will apply your practical knowledge of complex systems to ensure that our flying robots (drones) do real, valuable work in challenging warehouse environments. You'll find autonomous drone and ML technologies fascinating and look forward to collaborating with world-class experts in these technologies on how to properly characterize these types of complex systems. You'll review customer requirements, develop tests, execute tests and file reports on the quality of the product. You will work closely with product, quality assurance and development teams. As you grow in this role, you will be responsible for the quality of a specific product.

What You’ll Do

• Review system requirements from the Product & Development teams to ensure they are clear and testable.
• Develop well-written tests for the requirements that can be run by other QA team members.
• Organize tests into test plans.
• Execute tests.
• File defect reports against any problems discovered during testing.
• Help manage the testing effort using our Test Management Tools.
• Contribute to technical and quality review meetings.
• Help develop automated testing procedures for iOS and Android applications.

What You’ll Need

• BS in Science or Engineering, or equivalent technical experience.
• Strong communication skills, both written and oral.
• Ability to work with other teams including Product, Engineering and Field Operations.
• Ability to write clear and concise manual and automated tests.
• 5+ years experience in a quality assurance role.
• Customer obsession! We are a customer-obsessed company. If you are not already customer-obsessed, expect to become so!

Bonus points for…

• Practical experience with complex systems.
• Experience in reviewing requirements.
• Experience with JIRA.
• Experience with Test Management Tools (e.g. XRay)
• Programming skills (C++ or Python).
• Prior work with automated UI testing tools (e.g. Selenium, Cypress)
• Proficiency and interest in manual and automated testing of cross-platform applications (iOS and Android)
• More than 2 years of experience, and possibly some prior startup growth experience. We are a small but fast growing company, and we move quickly!

Compensation and Benefits

• Compensation package will include a strong equity grant
• Comprehensive health insurance
• Home office stipend
• Very flexible schedule
• Unlimited PTO

Our recruitment process begins with a short introductory call and is followed by a series of interviews that will focus on engineering technical, design, and management skills. The process concludes with reference and background checks, followed by an offer decision.