Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Raydar is a seed-stage enterprise AI company building autonomous data agents that execute complex engineering workflows inside customer-controlled cloud environments. The Founding AI Quality & Release Engineer will write software and own the verification and release system, focusing on AI-powered testing, regression coverage, release gates, CI health, artifact publication, deployment pipelines, and reliable environments.
Responsibilities
- You will write code most days and own the verification and release system that carries every build from merge to customer
- You will eliminate silent skips, build fresh-install and upgrade verification, turn escaped bugs into permanent regression tests, expand natural-language UAT executed by coding agents, own release candidates and artifact publication, automate credentials and certificates, and make release readiness visible through trusted system evidence
Skills
- 7 to 15 years in quality engineering, release engineering, platform engineering, developer productivity, SDET-adjacent engineering, or a similar software role
- Production-quality Python and strong software engineering fundamentals
- Deep fluency with GitHub Actions or an equivalent CI system
- Genuine interest and practical judgment in LLM-driven and agent-driven verification
- Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, AWS, cloud deployment mechanics, secrets, credentials, and certificates
- High ownership and clear technical communication through runbooks, dashboards, retrospectives, and operating policies
- Full work authorization in either the United States or Canada. Visa sponsorship and transfer support are not available
- Nice to have: TypeScript, Snowflake Native Apps, Playwright, LLM-as-judge or grader design, nondeterministic system testing, and early-stage startup quality infrastructure
Benefits
- Competitive equity and benefits.
- Remote-first across the United States and Canada.
- Periodic team offsites and flexible hybrid access to the New York City office for local team members.
- High ownership over a founding technical function at a $5M-funded enterprise AI company.
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