Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This Senior Software Quality Engineer role stands out in the SaaS ecosystem because it sits at the intersection of user-facing software, APIs, and release quality for a product that connects software to real-world automation. While the company is not a traditional pure-play SaaS, the work reflects SaaS-grade expectations around reliability, regressions, and customer-impacting releases, with QA tightly coupled to product delivery.
For a SaaS career, the long-term value is in building durable capability in test automation and quality engineering as a software discipline, not a checklist function. Owning end to end, integration, and regression coverage, plus internal tooling and CI-oriented workflows, maps directly to how modern SaaS teams scale confidence as features ship frequently. The emphasis on reviewing specs and PRs for testability also develops the upstream influence that senior QA engineers need in subscription software environments.
This role is best suited to an engineer who likes writing code daily and prefers systematic problem-solving over ad hoc testing. It fits someone comfortable partnering with developers, reproducing issues with clear evidence, and improving frameworks and scripts over time. Interest in complex systems and a willingness to learn a new domain appear more important than prior robotics experience.
The section above is editorial commentary from The SaaS Jobs, provided to help SaaS professionals understand the role in a broader industry context.
Job Description
Employment Type
Full time
Department
Quality Engineering
About Standard Bots
Standard Bot’s mission is to significantly lower the barrier to entry to real-world automation, bringing the power of bits to the world of atoms and unlocking productivity for entire new industries and users.
Our user facing applications and APIs unlock the power of automation for entire new use cases. A relentless focus on simplicity and ease of use brings the revolutionary potential of robotic automation to new users and industries. The Applications Engineering team drives forward the company’s mission by designing solutions around, installing and supporting Standard Bot’s innovative 6 axis robot.
Notes: This role will be required to come into our Glen Cove robotics factory 5 days/week
We are unable to offer Visa sponsorship for this role
What You’ll Do
We’re looking for a detail-oriented, technically curious engineer with a software background who is excited about robotics and automation. As a Software Quality Engineer (QA), you will work alongside experienced engineers to build and maintain test automation, validate software releases, and help ensure Standard Bots products meet the highest standard of quality.
This is a mid to senior level software engineering role within the QA origination. This role is ideal for someone who writes code everyday and wants to apply those skills to quality, reliability and test infrastructure.
Responsibilities
Write, maintain and extend automated test suites (end to end, integration and regression) for Standard Bots’ Software stack.
Develop and improve test automation frameworks
Build internal tooling and scripts to support QA workflows (log parsing, data extraction, test reporting)
Execute manual and automated regression testing across software releases to catch regressions before they reach customers
Collaborate with developers to reproduce isolate and document defects with clear reproduction steps and supporting data
Review feature specifications and PRs for testability and edge case coverage
Contribute to test case design as new features ship ensuring functional coverage across complex robotic environments
Participate in release QA processes, including gated test runs and release candidate validation.
Skills You'll Bring
Technical Foundation: 4-8 years of software engineering or test automation experience (or equivalent educational background). Comfortable writing code in Python, TypeScript/JavaScript, Bash or similar languages.
Test Automation: Familiarity with test frameworks (e.g., Playwright, pytest, Jest) and CI/CD concepts. Experience writing automated tests is strongly preferred.
Scripting & Tooling: Ability to write utility scripts for data processing, log analysis, or workflow automation. Comfortable working in Linux/CLI environments.
Version Control: Proficiency with Git and collaborative development workflows.
Growth + Optimism: You are excited by new domains and challenges, and eager to pick up new context to accelerate your impact.
Clarity of Communication: You excel in written and verbal communication and enjoy leveraging your skills to support your peers.
Impact Driven: You relentlessly seek user impact and value execution over technical idealism. You prioritize simplicity, reliability, and velocity and proactively identify opportunities to improve systems.
Who You Are
We're looking for engineers who are self-driven, optimistic, creative, and resourceful. We have no requirements for a background in robotics, but find the most success with engineers excited by the domain and looking to apply their software skills in a new area.
Nice To Have
Experience with ROS2, Docker, or robotics software stacks
Familiarity with network protocols (SSH, HTTP, MQTT) and debugging networked systems
Experience with hardware-in-the-loop or system-level testing
Background in embedded systems or real-time applications
Experience working with robotic systems (6-axis arms, collaborative robots, or similar industrial/research platforms)
Compensation and Benefits:
The salary range for this role is $130,000 to $170,000, depending on experience. We are open to a variety of seniority levels for this role and will build compensation packages that are commensurate with seniority and skill level. Base salary is just one part of the overall compensation at Standard Bots. All Full-Time Employees are eligible for Employee Stock Options. We also offer a package of benefits including paid time off, medical/dental/vision insurance, life insurance, disability insurance, and 401(k) to regular full-time employees.
