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# QA Lead, Robotics at Dyna Robotics

- **Company:** Dyna Robotics
- **Location:** Redwood City, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-03-31
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-20
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/dyna-robotics/4158b71d-d39a-4bf5-aa21-3417608f3754

## Job description

Dyna Robotics builds general-purpose robots powered by a proprietary embodied AI foundation model with top-in-industry generalization and real-world performance. Already deployed with customers across multiple industries, our robots do commercial-grade work in the physical world. Our team comes from Google DeepMind, Meta, and Cruise, and we're backed by CRV, First Round, and other leading investors.

## The Role

Build and lead the QA function at Dyna across our full stack — cloud inference servers to Linux-based IoT devices on the factory floor. Real-world robotics cannot be fully validated in simulation; physical hardware behavior and real-environment variability require hands-on QA judgment. You will hire and mentor a QA team, define testing standards, and stay hands-on with critical validation — balancing automation with the physical testing our domain demands. We expect aggressive use of AI tools (LLM code generation, AI test assistants, GenAI test design) to multiply team output.

## What You’ll Do

- People Management: Hire, develop, and retain a QA team. Provide career development and feedback, delegate ownership to grow engineers, and monitor team energy to prevent burnout. Drive recruiting and foster a culture of intellectual honesty and psychological safety.
- QA Strategy & Cross-Functional Alignment: Own the QA strategy and roadmap. Align priorities with company vision, translate quality risks into business impact, and drive alignment across robotics, ML, and infrastructure teams. Shield the team from organizational noise.
- Test Automation & CI/CD (primary focus): Build and maintain scalable automated test frameworks across robot software, cloud, and edge devices. Partner with developers to continuously expand CI coverage and shift testing left, minimizing manual testing over time.
- Release Validation & Benchmarking: Own and automate release checklists (inference server, station-side deployment). Run A/B testing for robotic tasks to measure success rates and latency. Manual validation where automation is not yet feasible.
- AI Model Evaluation & Regression Testing: Design and execute evaluation pipelines that validate AI model and full-system performance across model, software, and hardware updates. Define and track key metrics (task success rate, cycle time, generalization across environments), build automated regression benchmarks, and gate releases on evaluation results to prevent regressions from reaching production.
- System Monitoring & Alerting: Use tools like Datadog and Grafana to track system health, identify performance regressions, and maintain observability across production environments.
- Physical Hardware QA & Integration: Validate real-robot behavior that simulation cannot cover — mechanical repeatability, sensor calibration drift, and edge cases on physical hardware. Troubleshoot integration issues across firmware, drivers, and application software.
- Process & Documentation: Establish and maintain standard operating procedures (SOPs) for hardware and software validation; drive continuous process improvement.

## What You’ll Bring

- Education: Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science, Robotics, or a related field.
- Experience: 7+ years in QA, SRE, or Robotics Engineering with hands-on experience testing real hardware systems (not purely software/simulation), including 2+ years in a team lead or management role.
- Technical Skills: Proficiency in Python. Comfortable navigating build systems, running test pipelines, and debugging failures across the stack — not expected to develop features.
- Systems: Strong Linux administration skills and experience with IoT/edge device deployments.
- Testing Tools: Deep experience in developing and managing automated testing frameworks; familiarity with modern AI/ML testing, model evaluation, and regression benchmarking techniques; simulation (Gazebo, MuJoCo), and CI/CD tools (Docker, Kubernetes).
- AI Tools: Track record of adopting AI/LLM tools to accelerate QA workflows (test generation, bug triage, automation scaffolding). Must actively seek out and integrate new AI tools.
- Hardware QA: Hands-on experience with physical robot testing, hardware bring-up, or manufacturing QA — understanding failure modes that only appear on real hardware.
- Soft Skills: Strong leadership and people management; effective communicator across technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Bonus Points For

- Experience with computer vision metrics (image quality, depth validation, camera calibration).
- Experience with ML model evaluation, defining performance metrics for AI systems, or building automated regression pipelines for ML models.
- Previous experience in a fast-paced startup environment.

At Dyna Robotics, we build technology for the real world, which requires a team as diverse as the environments our robots inhabit. We are an equal opportunity employer committed to technical rigor and mutual respect. Don’t let a checklist stop you. Data shows that underrepresented groups often only apply if they meet 100% of the criteria. We value problem-solving and grit over keyword matching. If you’re passionate about robotics, no matter your discipline, we want to hear from you, even if you don't check every box.

## About Dyna Robotics

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Dyna Robotics builds general-purpose commercial robots powered by proprietary embodied AI foundation models that achieve human-level dexterity and self-improvement across diverse real-world environments.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A)
- **Headquarters**: Redwood City, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2024
- **Founders**: Lindon Gao (CEO), York Yang (Co‑founder), Jason Ma (Co‑founder / former DeepMind research scientist)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Robotics / Artificial Intelligence (embodied AI foundation models)
- **Target customers**: B2B – enterprises in manufacturing, logistics, laundry, food service, hospitality, and other industries requiring repetitive manipulation tasks
- **Mission statement**: “To empower businesses by automating repetitive, stationary tasks with affordable, intelligent robotic arms. Driving the future of general‑purpose robotics—one manipulation skill at a time.” [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/dyna-robotics)

## Products & Services
- **DYNA‑1 Foundation Model** – A single‑weight, general‑purpose vision‑language‑action (VLA) model that achieves 99%+ success rates in 24‑hour non‑stop operation. It generalizes zero‑shot to unseen environments and learns new skills within hours. [dyna.co](https://www.dyna.co/)
- **DYNA‑1i: Open‑World Dexterity** – Production‑grade manipulation system with real‑time self‑correction and human‑level dexterity at commercial throughput. [dyna.co](https://www.dyna.co/)
- **Factory Automation** – 24/7 autonomous operation for precision manufacturing, kitting, assembly, pick‑and‑place, quality inspection, and packaging.
- **Laundry & Garment** – Automated folding and garment handling (e.g., DYNA‑1 folds 40+ shirts per hour).
- **Food & Hospitality** – Food service automation including napkin folding, plating, and delicate manipulation tasks.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metrics**:
  - **Total Funding**: $143.5 M (Seed $23.5 M in March 2025; Series A $120 M in September 2025) [prnewswire.com](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/dyna-robotics-raises-120-million-to-advance-robotic-foundation-models-on-the-path-to-physical-artificial-general-intelligence-302556817.html)
  - **Employees**: 98 (as of mid‑2025), +213.9% YoY headcount growth [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/dyna-robotics)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: CRV, RoboStrategy, First Round Capital, Salesforce Ventures, NVentures (NVIDIA), Amazon Industrial Innovation Fund, Samsung Next, LG Technology Ventures.
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Robots already deployed 16 hours/day at hotels, restaurants, laundromats, and gyms within six months of launch.
  - Strong talent influx from Tesla (14 employees), Cruise, Meta, Nuro, Amazon Lab126.
  - LinkedIn follower growth +404.3% year‑over‑year.

## Competitive Advantages
- **First general‑purpose foundation model for robotics** that works out‑of‑the‑box in new environments without custom engineering.
- **99%+ success rate** in continuous 24‑hour operation and ability to self‑improve through on‑the‑job data.
- **Rapid learning**: new skills acquired in hours, not weeks, with fleet‑wide updates.
- **Founding team** with proven exit (Caper AI sold for $350 M) and deep research pedigree (DeepMind).

## Strategic Focus
- Expand world‑class research and engineering team.
- Accelerate development of next‑generation foundation model.
- Scale commercial deployments across manufacturing, hospitality, and service industries.
- Collect high‑quality data from real‑world customers to continuously improve model generalization.

## Why Work Here
- **In‑office culture** – All employees work from physical offices in Redwood City, CA (with small satellite presence in China, Canada, Hong Kong). Strong in‑person collaboration is emphasized. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/dyna-robotics)
- **Engineering‑heavy environment** – 27% of staff in technical roles, 9% in research, and 5% consulting. Recent open roles include Deployment Engineer, Research Engineer/Scientist, Full‑Stack Robotics Software Engineer, and Data Infra Engineer.
- **High growth trajectory** – Headcount nearly tripled in a year, with aggressive hiring across operations, research, and product.
- **Impactful mission** – Opportunity to work on cutting‑edge embodied AI that directly automates physical tasks, with a path toward physical AGI.
- **Competitive compensation & perks** (inferred from top VC backing and talent drawn from Big Tech).

## Sources
1. [dyna.co](https://www.dyna.co/) – Official website
2. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/dyna-robotics) – Company overview, jobs, culture
3. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/dyna-robotics) – Company details, funding, employee growth
4. [prnewswire.com](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/dyna-robotics-raises-120-million-to-advance-robotic-foundation-models-on-the-path-to-physical-artificial-general-intelligence-302556817.html) – Series A announcement

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