Founding AI Quality & Release Engineer (Remote US/CAN)

This is our first dedicated quality-infrastructure hire, and it is a software engineering role, not a traditional QA position.

You’ll write code most days: test harnesses, CI pipelines, release gates, and the LLM-agent systems that execute and evaluate our tests. You won’t spend your time manually running test cases. Agents do that here.

Your product is the verification and release system itself: the agentic test harness, evaluation logic, CI signal, release gates, deployment pipeline, and pre-production environments that carry every build from merge to customer.

Your mission: make a green build mean something, make upgrades safe, and make releases boring.

The role has two deliberately protected pillars:

• AI-powered verification (~70%), Own the trustworthiness of our test signal, including agent-run harnesses, LLM graders, regression coverage, and automated release gates. Close the gaps through which bugs currently escape to customers.

• **Release and environment engineering (~30%) **, Own the mechanics of shipping, including the release pipeline, CI health, artifact publication, and the reliability of our demo and staging environments.

What this role is not

• **It is not manual test execution. **The manual workload exists because the automated signal is not yet trusted. Your job is to fix the underlying system, not staff the symptom.

• **It is not a release gatekeeper. **You won’t be the person who relies on intuition to approve or reject releases. You’ll build systems that make release readiness visible and stop unsafe releases automatically, with evidence.

• **It is not a hidden 24/7 production on-call role. **You’ll participate in business-hours escalations, as every senior engineer does, and you’ll make incidents rarer and easier to diagnose. Formal after-hours production on-call is a separate function that we will staff as the need matures.

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