Staff Software Engineer in Test

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$156,000.00 / yr - $208,000.00 / yr

Overview

Staff Software Engineer, Quality and Test Automation — Location : San Francisco, CA (Hybrid).

Avy’s mission is to empower humans to work more efficiently and effectively with each other and with technology in knowledge work positions. We believe that software that acts as your companion, looking out for your best interests and helping you level up at work in a trusted, secure way, will not only make the world more productive, but will improve quality of life for everyone it touches.

Avy was founded by a serial founder and former leader in the AI / ML group at Apple, with team members who have multiple exits (including an IPO) and is backed by $10M in pre-seed and seed funding to enable execution at the highest level.

The Opportunity

This role requires a self-starter that seeks high impact and high ownership while balancing hard technical problems with strategic thinking about how we ship our product.

As the founding member of the formal Quality Engineering team, you will have the freedom to improve or reinvent processes and techniques to help ensure we ship a trusted product, building on existing work in test automation and quality assurance as appropriate. As we grow, you will have latitude to shape how it operates and how it grows.

Our product is ambitious : it combines components across desktop, mobile, and cloud computers. Correctness, speed, and reliability are critical to user trust and our deep use of machine learning and AI require novel approaches to ensuring quality. This is a hard problem with ample opportunity to learn, grow, and make an impact.

What You’ll Do

• Define and own our testing and quality measurement and assurance strategy across platforms
• Build our test automation infrastructure to support reliable deployment across multiple platforms and operating systems, at scale
• Establish processes that balance fast iteration with high confidence in releases, evolving from today’s needs to what will be required at scale
• Be deeply hands-on, understanding product requirements, writing test cases, and manually testing as needed until you automate testing of new requirements
• Design for AI-driven variability, evaluating nondeterministic outputs and ensuring product behavior is trustworthy and user-aligned
• Ensure performance and resource discipline, especially around on-device AI models that require careful management of CPU, memory, and responsiveness
• Develop creative test data strategies, including AI-generated synthetic inputs for stress, scale, edge-case testing, and other business use cases
• Lay the foundation for a team, with the opportunity to hire and mentor QA and test automation engineers as we grow
• Collaborate with internal teams and external users and partners. This is not customer support, but we learn from customers to improve the Avy experience

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Please submit a résumé, links, or anything else that helps us understand your background. We care more about aptitude and results than buzzwords.

We are an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We encourage applicants from all backgrounds to apply.

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