What are the responsibilities and job description for the QA Engineer position at Dusty Robotics?
About Dusty Robotics
At Dusty Robotics, we're on a mission to revolutionize construction with intelligent, field-ready robotic systems. Our technology bridges the digital and physical worlds to increase safety, accuracy, and efficiency on the jobsite. As we grow, we're looking for a passionate and detail-oriented early-career QA Engineer to join our team and help ensure the quality and reliability of our robotics systems.
Role Overview
This is an exciting opportunity for a new or recent graduate to gain hands-on experience in quality assurance across hardware, mobile, and cloud software platforms. You will contribute to test planning, automation development, and release support, while learning directly from experienced engineers across disciplines. You'll play a key role in testing our robot, iPad app, and web portal, and help us deliver robust, field-tested systems.
Key Responsibilities
In joining our team, you'll become an important part of a small and fast-growing company. We are daring to accomplish something big, do you want to be a critical part of Dusty's success? We are deeply committed to our mission, and we believe in removing roadblocks that distract us from reaching our goals.
To that end, we offer an unlimited vacation policy, a 401k with employer match, reasonable work hours, and flexible schedules. We know that our best work happens when we feel well-rested and capable of focusing all of our energy on making Dusty successful!
Strong, effective teams are composed of people with a diverse set of backgrounds and experiences who bring a variety of perspectives to their work. We actively encourage applications from a diverse pool, including those from historically under-represented groups such as women, people of color, people who identify LGBTQ, people with disabilities, and immigrants.
Our Code of Conduct:
Dusty Robotics exists to serve a wide variety of customers from all walks of life. We believe that our mission is best served in an environment that is friendly, safe, accepting, and free of intimidation or harassment. We do not tolerate abusive behavior.
At Dusty Robotics, we're on a mission to revolutionize construction with intelligent, field-ready robotic systems. Our technology bridges the digital and physical worlds to increase safety, accuracy, and efficiency on the jobsite. As we grow, we're looking for a passionate and detail-oriented early-career QA Engineer to join our team and help ensure the quality and reliability of our robotics systems.
Role Overview
This is an exciting opportunity for a new or recent graduate to gain hands-on experience in quality assurance across hardware, mobile, and cloud software platforms. You will contribute to test planning, automation development, and release support, while learning directly from experienced engineers across disciplines. You'll play a key role in testing our robot, iPad app, and web portal, and help us deliver robust, field-tested systems.
Key Responsibilities
- Assist in designing and executing test plans for robotic systems, mobile apps, and web interfaces.
- Help develop and maintain automated test scripts and pipelines.
- Participate in test case development, documentation, and result tracking to support regular software releases.
- Contribute to QA efforts during internal and external product testing, including occasional support at customer construction sites.
- Report and track bugs in collaboration with engineering and product teams.
- Support improvements to test infrastructure, processes, and documentation.
- Help create clear summaries of test outcomes and participate in team reviews.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Robotics, Engineering, or a related technical field.
- Experience with Python (through coursework, internships, or personal projects).
- Familiarity with version control tools (e.g., Git) and some exposure to CI/CD workflows.
- Strong organizational and problem-solving skills with an attention to detail.
- Effective communicator, both verbally and in writing, with the ability to document findings clearly.
- Eagerness to learn, take initiative, and collaborate with multidisciplinary teams.
- Coursework or internship experience in software testing, robotics, or embedded systems.
- Exposure to tools such as JIRA, Jenkins, CircleCI, or similar.
- Experience working with or testing physical hardware or mobile apps.
- Interest in construction tech or field robotics.
- Be part of a mission-driven team building real-world automation systems.
- Learn from industry experts in robotics, software, and QA.
- Gain exposure to full-stack testing across hardware and software.
- Contribute meaningfully to cutting-edge products from day one.
In joining our team, you'll become an important part of a small and fast-growing company. We are daring to accomplish something big, do you want to be a critical part of Dusty's success? We are deeply committed to our mission, and we believe in removing roadblocks that distract us from reaching our goals.
To that end, we offer an unlimited vacation policy, a 401k with employer match, reasonable work hours, and flexible schedules. We know that our best work happens when we feel well-rested and capable of focusing all of our energy on making Dusty successful!
Strong, effective teams are composed of people with a diverse set of backgrounds and experiences who bring a variety of perspectives to their work. We actively encourage applications from a diverse pool, including those from historically under-represented groups such as women, people of color, people who identify LGBTQ, people with disabilities, and immigrants.
Our Code of Conduct:
Dusty Robotics exists to serve a wide variety of customers from all walks of life. We believe that our mission is best served in an environment that is friendly, safe, accepting, and free of intimidation or harassment. We do not tolerate abusive behavior.
- We are not accepting unsolicited resumes from third-party recruiters or agencies
