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To succeed in this role, you should possess a strong background in engineering, with a proven track record in quality assurance or testing. Familiarity with quality management systems and methodologies is highly desirable. Strong communication skills and the ability to work in a team-oriented environment are essential.
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As a Product Quality Engineer at Waymo, you will play a crucial role in ensuring the highest standards of quality in our innovative automotive technologies. You will work collaboratively with cross-functional teams to identify, analyze, and resolve quality issues while implementing robust testing protocols. Your analytical skills and attention to detail will be essential in maintaining our commitment to excellence.
About Waymo LLC
Waymo LLC is a leader in autonomous driving technology, dedicated to making it safe and easy for people and things to get where they’re going. We are committed to innovation and excellence, creating cutting-edge products that redefine transportation.
Join Aeva as a Senior Product Quality Engineer, where you will play a pivotal role in ensuring the excellence of our innovative products. In this position, you will be responsible for developing, implementing, and maintaining quality assurance protocols that align with our cutting-edge technology solutions.The ideal candidate will have a robust understanding of quality engineering principles and will work closely with cross-functional teams to enhance product reliability and performance. Your expertise will help us uphold our commitment to delivering high-quality products that exceed customer expectations.
As a Product Quality Engineer at Waymo, you will play a crucial role in ensuring the highest standards of quality in our innovative automotive technologies. You will work collaboratively with cross-functional teams to identify, analyze, and resolve quality issues while implementing robust testing protocols. Your analytical skills and attention to detail will be essential in maintaining our commitment to excellence.
Join our innovative team at dstaff as a Senior Principal Quality Assurance Engineer. In this critical role, you will lead the development and implementation of robust testing strategies, ensuring the highest quality standards in our products. You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to identify and resolve quality issues, enhancing our software development lifecycle.Your expertise will guide the team in adopting best practices and tools in quality assurance, playing a key role in mentoring junior engineers and fostering a culture of quality across the organization.
At Logos Space, we are pioneering a Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite system tailored to meet the connectivity demands of commercial enterprises and government entities. Our mission is to bridge a vital market gap by delivering robust, high-performance satellite-based connectivity solutions to clients worldwide. Our business partners will benefit from contracts that stipulate precise performance standards for broadband, which we will integrate into our system from the outset. The foundation of our operation lies in speed and reliability, with the ability to extend cloud and data center network connectivity globally to fixed, maritime, and aviation terminals.Our team consists of seasoned engineers with extensive expertise in both the networking and satellite sectors.Position Summary & ResponsibilitiesWe are looking for a detail-oriented and strategic Quality Engineering Lead to spearhead our quality strategy for the LEO satellite constellation, particularly in a high-rate production environment. This pivotal operations leadership role involves establishing and managing quality metrics at various levels, including suppliers, bus partners, and payload assembly. The perfect candidate will work collaboratively with suppliers, external bus partners, and contract manufacturers. This position demands a data-driven mindset focused on quality, highlighting process control and readiness, while making informed decisions to balance production schedules with mission risks—moving past the conventional testing paradigms typical in space production. You will play a crucial role in assuring both production and mission readiness through stringent prototype testing and in-line quality oversight.We seek individuals who thrive in a dynamic environment, capable of transforming ambiguous requirements into actionable plans that align with Logos' product objectives. If you enjoy tackling challenging problems, take initiative, and possess a strong sense of ownership over your tasks, we want to hear from you.Key ResponsibilitiesQuality System Management: Develop and oversee essential quality metrics, such as Acceptable Quality Limit (AQL) levels, yields, and validation protocols for all supplier components, bus production/integration, and payload assemblies.Supplier & Partner Quality: Drive quality collaboration with key suppliers to define, implement, and audit in-line quality production points, ensuring consistency with production schedules.Production Readiness: Define and carry out prototype testing...
Full-time|$160.4K/yr - $240.5K/yr|On-site|Mountain View, California (HQ)
About Nuro Nuro is a pioneering self-driving technology firm dedicated to making autonomous driving accessible to everyone. Established in 2016, we are developing the world’s most scalable driver by merging advanced AI with automotive-grade hardware. Our flagship technology, the Nuro Driver™, is licensed to facilitate a variety of applications, from robotaxis to commercial fleets and personal vehicles. With years of proven self-driving deployments, we offer automakers and mobility platforms a clear path to achieving commercial-scale autonomous vehicles, enhancing safety and connectivity for a better future. Join Our Team Our team is committed to empowering engineers to revolutionize transportation by equipping them with the tools and infrastructure necessary for productivity and success. We aim to achieve this through: Identifying and resolving engineering process challenges. Creating innovative tools and infrastructure for enhanced efficiency. Educating engineers on best practices. Utilizing cutting-edge technologies to amplify productivity. Our passionate engineers are dedicated to solving complex problems and making a positive impact on the future of transportation. Role Overview Collaborate with engineers across Nuro to pinpoint inefficiencies in the engineering workflow. Define, analyze, and monitor metrics relating to engineering velocity and system health. Innovatively address daily developer challenges by creating new tools or enhancing existing ones. Develop scalable infrastructure for continuous code integration, testing, and release, while optimizing for coverage, speed, and cost, addressing the unique complexities of Nuro’s machine learning and hardware tests. Oversee and enhance essential libraries and APIs for interaction with complex systems, managing code dependencies and the overall structure of Nuro’s codebase. Utilize Generative AI to enhance engineering productivity. Provide guidance to developers on best practices and newly implemented tools.
Reliable Robotics develops automated aviation systems aimed at making air transportation safer and more efficient. The team combines experience in aerospace, robotics, and autonomous vehicles to advance how people and goods travel. Role overview The Senior Production Systems Engineer joins the Production team in Mountain View, CA. This group delivers high-quality products and services, supporting the company’s mission to move automated aviation systems from concept to production. The position provides technical leadership and shapes strategy for production capabilities, business systems, and factory infrastructure. What you will do Design and manage production systems that support manufacturing processes, quality standards, and regulatory compliance. Plan, develop, and lead the rollout of new features and modules in partnership with SaaS vendors and internal teams. Conduct trade studies to inform decisions about business systems and infrastructure. Set up, automate, and monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) to drive improvements in design, product, and process. Key focus areas Oversee integration and performance of Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES), Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), and Material Requirements Planning (MRP) tools. Lead enhancements using AI, develop and refine production processes, and install factory infrastructure such as printers and inspection equipment. Create real-time analytics tools to support operations in a safety-critical environment.
Full-time|$165K/yr - $220K/yr|On-site|Mountain View, CA
At Reliable Robotics, we are pioneering safety-enhancing technologies for aviation, committed to transforming air transportation into a safer and more efficient means of moving goods and people around the globe. Our dedicated team of engineers, experienced in aerospace, robotics, and autonomous vehicles, is driving this innovative future.As a Senior Quality Assurance and Reliability Engineer within our Production organization, you will take on a crucial role in ensuring product safety and reliability. Your expertise will guide investigations, implement corrective actions, and foster continuous improvements. Join our dynamic team, where your contributions will help us enhance the quality of our products and services efficiently and effectively. You will spearhead the strategy and execution of our quality management system, focus on risk mitigation and prevention, and ensure the reliability of our designs, hardware, and flight systems. As we scale, you will play a key role in optimizing processes and developing automation that will drive our business forward. Your work will be foundational to the future of automated aviation systems, which are transitioning from prototype to production in a hands-on environment.Key ResponsibilitiesCollaborate with design, manufacturing, testing, and flight teams to produce reliable products, ensuring compliance while driving continuous improvement within the organization. Engage directly with flight hardware in both factory and airborne environments, conduct investigations on safety-critical products, and witness the development of the first certifiable autonomous aircraft.Partner with cross-functional teams throughout product development, from acceptance testing to quality checkouts, to create reliable hardware verification for flight components and systems. This includes identifying key operating characteristics and managing prototype development testing for functionality and manufacturability.Develop and oversee the quality management system to ensure compliance with processes, work instructions, certifications, and regulatory standards.Investigate manufacturing, supply chain, testing, and flight anomalies, identifying root causes and implementing effective resolutions.
Full-time|$100K/yr - $150K/yr|On-site|Mountain View, CA
Join Matic: Pioneering Home RoboticsAt Matic, we are on a transformative journey to reclaim the 2.5 trillion hours annually wasted on household chores by innovating in home robotics. Our flagship product, the Matic robot, is akin to a Wall-E-inspired floor cleaning solution. Equipped with advanced features such as real-time 3D mapping, adaptive path tracking, and an intricate semantic understanding of home environments, our robots are designed for reliability and efficiency in real households, utilizing only RGB cameras and on-device neural networks.Privacy at the CoreOur commitment to privacy means that all data processing occurs directly on the robot, ensuring that what happens in the home remains private.Our VisionMatic believes in a gradual evolution of home robotics, starting with focused, single-purpose devices and progressively enhancing their capabilities over time, much like the evolution of smartphones.Our Work EnvironmentWe are a close-knit, collaborative team dedicated to creating products that our customers love. Our employees are passionate problem solvers who are committed to developing innovative solutions that save time and energy.Your RoleAs a Robotics Quality Engineer at Matic, you will play a crucial role in ensuring our autonomous home robots meet exceptional standards of performance, reliability, and customer satisfaction. This position, based in Mountain View, California, involves close collaboration with production, engineering, and product teams to design and implement quality control processes that reflect Matic's commitment to delivering elegant and reliable robotic solutions. This full-time opportunity allows you to shape the quality framework of a rapidly growing startup, directly influencing the experiences of families who depend on our products.Our hardware team is characterized by meticulousness and teamwork, driven by a shared passion for excellence in robotics. If you have a keen eye for detail, enjoy tackling complex challenges, and are enthusiastic about ensuring our Wall-E-esque robots exceed expectations, we want to hear from you.Your Responsibilities:Develop and execute quality assurance processes to assess the performance, durability, and safety of Matic's robotic products.Conduct thorough root cause analysis on defects or failures, collaborating with engineering teams to devise effective solutions and mitigate recurrence.
At Commure, we are on a mission to transform healthcare by simplifying the experience for providers and patients alike. Our bold vision aims to redefine how care is delivered, setting a new benchmark in the healthcare industry. Our innovative suite of AI solutions includes ambient AI clinical documentation, provider copilots, autonomous coding, and revenue cycle management, all designed to allow healthcare professionals to focus on what truly matters: delivering exceptional care.With a market valued at $4.5 trillion and over $500 billion in annual administrative expenses, Commure is at the forefront of this transformation. We empower more than 500,000 clinicians across numerous care sites nationwide, processing over $10 billion annually and facilitating more than 100 million patient interactions. As we prepare for new product launches and aim to expand into additional care sectors, our goal is to evolve from an innovative startup to a recognized industry standard in the coming years.Commure has recently been featured on Fortune’s Future 50 list for 2025 and boasts a roster of top-tier investors including General Catalyst, Sequoia, Y Combinator, and more. With over 300% year-over-year growth for the past two years, we are just getting started. Join us in harnessing AI to revolutionize healthcare.About the RoleAs part of Commure’s Revenue Cycle Management (RCM) team, you will play a crucial role in innovating healthcare technology. We are seeking skilled Fullstack Engineers who are passionate about solving critical problems in healthcare and thrive in a fast-paced environment. If you are excited about delivering impactful health-tech solutions, we would love to have you on board!Note: This position requires working on-site at our headquarters in Mountain View, CA.Key ResponsibilitiesContribute to building the nation’s leading billing platform.Develop end-to-end products that enhance revenue cycle management for healthcare providers.Collaborate within a dynamic team that values rapid execution and informed decision-making.Engage in cross-functional teamwork to drive innovative healthcare solutions.
Join Coupang as the Senior Director of Search AI within our Production Engineering team. In this pivotal role, you will lead the development and implementation of cutting-edge AI technologies that enhance our search capabilities. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive innovation and optimize user experience across our platform.
Join Moveworks as a Senior Software Engineer and be at the forefront of innovation in the Agentic AI Product space. In this role, you will develop and enhance cutting-edge solutions that leverage artificial intelligence to transform organizational workflows. Collaborate with a dynamic team of engineers and product managers to bring intelligent automation to life.
Full-time|$240K/yr - $334K/yr|On-site|Mountain View, California, US
OverviewArtificial Intelligence stands as one of humanity's most transformative inventions. At DeepMind, we are a collective of scientists, engineers, and machine learning specialists dedicated to pushing the boundaries of AI technology for the greater good. Our mission is not only to enhance scientific discovery but also to address critical challenges with an unwavering commitment to safety and ethics.Your RoleAs a Product Manager at Google DeepMind, you will play a pivotal role in translating groundbreaking AI research into Google’s AI models and products. Within the Frontier AI team, you will collaborate with exceptional AI researchers who are advancing new model architectures, AGI, and sophisticated applications such as Agents and Robotics. Your focus as the PM for Information Quality will be to analyze the societal impact of generative AI on information ecosystems. You will confront significant challenges related to misinformation, enhance the detection and provenance of generative AI content, and examine the evolving economics of information in an AI-enhanced society. You will also be instrumental in integrating robust safety measures and information integrity improvements into our existing models, while partnering closely with researchers to develop innovative tools that enhance information literacy and assist users in navigating a complex digital landscape.Key Responsibilities:Assess the societal implications of new generative models and spearhead research advancements in information quality, trust, and provenance.Foster collaborations with product teams across Google (e.g., Search, YouTube, News) and model development teams to deploy state-of-the-art generative AI detection and misinformation mitigation technologies.Collaborate with researchers to conceptualize, develop, and launch new tools aimed at enhancing human information literacy and critical evaluation of AI-generated content.Investigate and model the economics of information to ensure sustainable and high-quality knowledge creation in an AI-rich future.Promote research in AI safety and information integrity, making technical breakthroughs easily accessible to scale across Google’s product ecosystem.Occasionally initiate new products or frameworks focusing on societal resilience and trust.
What You Will Do:Are you ready for an exhilarating challenge? Imagine yourself enhancing and scaling a state-of-the-art Generative AI product that provides immediate support to enterprise users. If you're curious about how to implement abstraction, scalability, and optimization in a dynamic, probabilistic, and generative conversational system, we encourage you to join our Conversation Engine team. At Moveworks, you will be at the forefront of our Generative AI product, focusing on scaling and optimizing it to cater to the increasing demands of the enterprise solution market. Explore our latest insights on Moveworks's innovative solutions for enterprise AI, including Moveworks Live and Creator Studio. As leaders in the enterprise AI space, we invite you to contribute your creative ideas and vision to tackle unprecedented challenges. You will work closely with machine learning specialists and cross-functional teams, swiftly iterating on new concepts and utilizing user behavior data to inform your decisions. Your primary responsibility will be to scale and refine our conversation engine to handle hundreds of millions of users across various chat channels and applications, while enhancing our end-to-end product infrastructure with exceptional engineering quality and durability.Build a robust product infrastructure with intuitive interfaces that enable engineers and configurators to easily customize and enhance generative AI models. This includes gathering data and feedback, adapting to a range of enterprise applications and business contexts, and delivering tailored conversational experiences.Develop scalable API abstractions for our conversation platform, compatible with major chat clients such as Microsoft Teams, Slack, and Web, while offering a versatile API for integrating other components of the engineering ecosystem.Enhance the dialogue engine to support a variety of conversational features, leveraging proprietary domain knowledge unique to each enterprise client in the cloud, and facilitating real-time multilingual translation. You will accomplish this with a minimal memory footprint, reduced latency, and an efficient development process for application engineers.Promote best coding practices, API design, scalability, robustness, and optimization. Cultivate a culture of excellence and continuous improvement among fellow engineers.Deliver comprehensive insights and visibility into the performance of our conversational AI product.
Join 360itprofessionals1 as a Front-End/UI Quality Engineer and play a critical role in enhancing user experience across our digital platforms. We are seeking a detail-oriented professional who is passionate about quality assurance and has a strong understanding of front-end technologies.
At Reliable Robotics, we are pioneering advanced safety technology for the aviation industry, aiming to save lives and revolutionize air transportation. Our automated aviation systems promise a future where the movement of goods and people is safer, more convenient, and fundamentally transformative. Our dedicated team comprises engineers with diverse expertise spanning aerospace, robotics, and autonomous vehicles, all working towards making this vision a reality.As a Senior Software Engineer focused on Engineering Productivity, you will play a crucial role in designing and implementing software that supports the development, analysis, and certification processes for automated aircraft systems. Collaborating closely with product owners and end users, you will craft solutions that enhance and optimize engineering workflows, with your contributions being vital in the development and certification of the first fully autonomous aircraft.
Full-time|$189.4K/yr - $230K/yr|On-site|Mountain View, California, United States
Company OverviewID.me is pioneering the digital identity wallet space, enabling individuals to securely prove their identity online with ease. With over 152 million users, our platform streamlines identity verification across 20 federal agencies, 45 state governments, and more than 70 healthcare organizations. Over 600 consumer brands leverage ID.me to foster authentic relationships by verifying communities and user segments. Our technology adheres to the highest federal standards for consumer authentication as set by the Commerce Department, and we are a NIST 800-63-3 IAL2 / AAL2 credential service provider certified by the Kantara Initiative. ID.me is driven by the mission of 'No Identity Left Behind,' ensuring everyone can access a secure digital identity. For more details, visit https://network.id.me/.Role OverviewWe are on the lookout for a Senior Product Security Engineer to join our Product Security team as a dedicated individual contributor. If you are passionate about deep technical work, building robust security solutions, and tackling complex security challenges, this is your opportunity to enhance the digital identity ecosystem while protecting millions of users. As a leading identity platform in the U.S., ID.me protects a vast amount of sensitive Personally Identifiable Information (PII), making our Product Security team essential in defending against sophisticated threats and ensuring our products are resilient at scale.As a Senior Product Security Engineer, you will be a technical authority responsible for implementing and addressing security issues across software and cloud environments, developing automation, and managing intricate technical projects. Your expertise will lead to the delivery of production-ready technological solutions, resolution of critical security challenges, and in-depth technical security assessments that will significantly bolster the security of our products. Your contributions will fortify the defensive architecture of a platform utilized nationally, providing you with a chance to make a tangible and impactful difference in the safety and trust of millions of users.This role is based out of our Mountain View, CA or McLean, VA offices and requires full-time in-office attendance.
Full-time|$165.3K/yr - $219.7K/yr|On-site|Mountain View, California
At Databricks, we are dedicated to empowering data teams to tackle some of the world's most challenging issues — from realizing the next mode of transportation to fast-tracking medical advancements. Our mission involves constructing and managing the premier data and AI infrastructure platform, allowing our clients to leverage profound data insights to enhance their operations. Search technology is integral to this endeavor. Through a combination of keyword retrieval, semantic similarity via vector embeddings, and hybrid methods, our Search technologies enable users to find, discover, and comprehend information within vast, intricate datasets. This technology fuels a wide array of applications, from Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) and AI assistants to recommendation engines, enterprise knowledge management, in-product search, and data exploration. As a Staff Software Engineer specializing in Search Quality, you will steer the technical strategy for ranking, relevance, evaluation, and quality initiatives within Databricks' advanced Search product. You will architect and develop systems, models, and evaluation frameworks that guarantee our Search stack yields precise, high-quality outcomes across a variety of multimodal datasets and query patterns. Collaborating with research, product, and infrastructure teams, you will push the boundaries of retrieval quality for enterprise AI applications by integrating traditional information retrieval techniques with representation learning and neural ranking. In addition to your technical contributions, you will help shape our long-term vision for relevance and quality, mentor senior engineers, and lead strategic initiatives that enhance the accuracy, dependability, and overall impact of Search across Databricks.
Full-time|$210K/yr - $257K/yr|Hybrid|Mountain View, US
About EarnInAt EarnIn, we are proud to be frontrunners in earned wage access, dedicated to creating innovative products that provide real-time financial flexibility for individuals navigating the challenges of living paycheck to paycheck. Our community members can access their earnings as they earn them, with the freedom to spend, save, and grow their money without incurring mandatory fees, interest rates, or credit checks.Backed by a highly experienced leadership team and supported by prestigious funding partners such as A16Z, Matrix Partners, DST, and Ribbit Capital, we are on a rapid growth trajectory and eager to welcome world-class talent to help us shape the next chapter of our journey.POSITION SUMMARY We are seeking a highly proficient Senior Software Quality Engineer (SDET) to spearhead our comprehensive quality engineering initiatives across mobile, web, backend, and data platforms. This pivotal role blends profound technical acumen with a progressive, AI-centric approach, fostering innovation, scalability, and reliability through advanced automation and intelligent testing strategies. As a senior team member, you will advocate for cutting-edge, AI-driven quality practices and cultivate a culture of continuous improvement, automation-first thinking, and data-informed decision-making throughout the product development lifecycle. This position is hybrid, based in Mountain View (Headquarters), requiring in-office attendance twice a week. The competitive salary range for this full-time role is between $210,000 and $257,000, plus equity and comprehensive benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. EarnIn offers exceptional benefits for our team members, including healthcare, internet/cell phone reimbursement, and a learning and development stipend.Quality Engineering & TestTake ownership of end-to-end quality across iOS and Android applications and their associated backend services, ensuring a high level of confidence in weekly (or more frequent) releases.Design and implement thorough test strategies encompassing:Native mobile applications (iOS & Android)Mobile-to-backend integrations (REST APIs, authentication flows, event-driven systems)Microservices and distributed systemsEssential web workflows that intersect with mobile journeysDevice, OS, browser, and network variabilityApp lifecycle events, offline behavior, retries, and edge cases...
Full-time|$155K/yr - $185K/yr|On-site|Mountain View, CA
Join Our TeamWe are on the lookout for a skilled Production Engineer with deep system expertise, passionate about contributing to a team dedicated to designing and operating large-scale systems that ensure swift deployment, effective monitoring, and robust operations.Your ContributionsDrive automation, enhance capability, boost performance, and scale operations!Play a pivotal role in shaping our engineering best practices and deployment strategies.Facilitate automation in continuous integration and testing processes to enhance scalability.Oversee and sustain our infrastructure.Design and implement monitoring systems like Prometheus and Grafana.Optimize Linux systems for peak performance, reliability, and security.Manage configuration processes and build product features as necessary.Analyze data to identify root causes of issues and collaborate with engineers on effective solutions.Participate in an on-call rotation.Who We SeekYou possess 2+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) or related fields.
Full-time|$147K/yr - $147K/yr|On-site|Mountain View, California, US
Research Engineer / Scientist, Response Quality/HermesMountain View, CAAt Google DeepMind, we celebrate the diversity of experiences and perspectives, leveraging them to create a transformative impact. We are dedicated to providing equal employment opportunities to all, regardless of sex, race, religion, ethnicity, disability, age, citizenship, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other legally protected status. If you require accommodations due to a disability or other needs, please let us know.Team OverviewJoin a visionary team.At Google DeepMind, our multidisciplinary team of engineers and scientists is pivotal in advancing Gemini’s post-training evolution. Our goal is to evolve Gemini from a static answer engine into a dynamic, collaborative AI partner capable of rich, multi-faceted interactions.Our initiatives encompass a comprehensive range of model alignment and interaction design, including:Advanced Modeling Techniques: Innovating and scaling SFT, RL, and Reward Modeling techniques to enhance multi-turn reasoning and collaborative behaviors.Next-Generation Evaluation: Developing autonomous user-agent evaluation methods to emulate complex interactions and measure the quality of human-AI exchanges.Multimodal Response Generation: Enhancing user experience by integrating diverse formats such as images, charts, and interactive widgets beyond traditional text responses.About Google DeepMindArtificial Intelligence is poised to be one of humanity’s most transformative inventions. At Google DeepMind, our team of scientists, engineers, and machine learning experts collaborate to push the boundaries of AI technology. Our commitment to safety and ethics ensures that we prioritize public benefit and scientific discovery in all our endeavors.Role OverviewAs a Research Engineer/Scientist within the Gemini Post-Training team, you'll play a crucial role in bridging the gap between core model alignment and next-gen interactive AI. You will reimagine how Gemini engages, reasons, and collaborates with users through complex, multi-turn exchanges.
Mar 5, 2026
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