Senior Quality Software Engineer

Responsibilities

• Own the test automation framework across Rust and Python, covering unit, integration, regression, and scenario-level testing.
• Integrate test suites into CI/CD with enforced gates at every stage, including SAST, dependency scanning, and vulnerability checks.
• Enforce NODA's compliance boundary so CUI and export-controlled data never reach clean-zone or vendor-accessible test paths.
• Drive build quality metrics, including coverage, flake rate, false positive rate, and mean time to detect and triage.
• Maintain a component-level quality dashboard feeding into program-level go/no-go views for engineering and program leadership.
• Own go/no-go checklists and issue release recommendations backed by functional, security, and compliance evidence.
• Triage failures before routing, providing engineers with a diagnosis rather than a symptom.
• Maintain test-suite health through review cadence, stale-test deprecation, and coverage-gap identification.
• Translate quality state into language that drives release decisions at the leadership level.
• Grow the QE function under Core Engineering as headcount scales.

Required Qualifications

• 7+ years in software quality engineering, with a track record of building test infrastructure.
• Production-quality test code and maintainable test harnesses.
• Python required; Rust or a clear plan to learn it.
• Hands-on CI/CD integration, including building gates, debugging flaky tests, and enforcing blocks.
• Experience owning quality dashboards and metrics that drive go/no-go decisions.
• Fluency in distributed and concurrent systems and their failure modes.
• Experience integrating security testing into CI/CD, including SAST, dependency scanning, and compliance validation aligned to NIST 800-171 or equivalent.
• Experience designing test infrastructure that respects security boundaries and vendor guardrails while supporting restricted core components.
• Background in defense, robotics, aerospace, or autonomous systems.
• U.S. citizenship and ability to obtain a security clearance.

Preferred Qualifications

• Hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) or software-in-the-loop (SIL) testing experience.
• Simulation-based test pipelines.
• Edge or resource-constrained testing experience.
• Active security clearance.

Benefits & Perks

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans.
• 401(k) retirement savings plan with company match.
• Equity grants for new hires.
• Unlimited PTO and 11 paid holidays.
• Generous company holiday calendar, including a holiday hiatus in November and December.
• Generous parental leave.
• Military leave for annual training or service requirements.
• FSA, DCFSA, and HSA.
• Professional development opportunities.
• Access to One Medical.
• Free 24/7 mental health resources, including therapy, plus legal and financial support.

Growth Path

• Quality Engineer: Owns one or more test domains and maintains test harnesses supporting integration and validation.
• Senior Quality Engineer: Owns the quality function for Core Engineering, builds the test automation framework, and drives metric-backed go/no-go decisions.
• Staff Quality Engineer: Advises engineering leadership on QE architecture and strategy and sets quality standards across engineering sub-teams.
• Principal Quality Engineer: Defines the long-term QE roadmap and establishes company-wide standards for test infrastructure, coverage, and release quality.

Final leveling is determined at the offer stage based on demonstrated scope, impact, and technical leadership.