Quality Engineering Lead

Strong software engineering background — you can design a system from an ambiguous problem and implement the hard path

Experience owning quality, reliability, release, or evaluation platforms (not only writing suites)

Experience with conversational AI, voice, or LLM evaluation — or a clear track record evaluating non-deterministic systems without ground truth

Release engineering, progressive delivery, or SRE depth — gates, canaries, and production signal you have owned

Hands-on building of CI/CD quality infrastructure at meaningful scale

Product mindset — you tie quality work to customer-visible risk and delivery outcomes

Evidence over assertion — you quantify, and you separate known from assumed

Ability to work with a small team and influence engineers who do not report to you

A manual QA role, a checklist sign-off role, or a hire to write Playwright/pytest cases as the main job. We already have deep automation capability; we need the architect who builds what sits above it.