Drimva

Anduril

Senior Quality Engineer, Applied AI

$146K–$194K

Boston, Massachusetts, United States +1 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 29, 2026

Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Costa Mesa, California, United States
Experience
5+ years; relevant fields include software engineering, site reliability engineering, quality engineering, infrastructure engineering, or a closely related role.
Education
Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
Visa sponsorship
U.S. Person status is required because the role needs access to export controlled data.

About the job

Leads quality and reliability for an AI development pod, building testing, validation, and operational practices for AI-enabled software and workflows.

What you'll do

  • Design test strategies, validation approaches, and release readiness criteria for AI software and agentic workflows.
  • Partner with engineers to detect failure modes and build automated testing, observability, and operational safeguards.
  • Support implementation, launch readiness, incident response, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement.

What they ask for

  • 5+ years in software engineering, site reliability engineering, quality engineering, infrastructure engineering, or a closely related role.
  • Experience building or operating reliable production software, including testing, observability, deployment confidence, and operational readiness.
  • Technical fluency in modern software architectures, APIs, distributed systems, CI/CD, and cloud or platform infrastructure; experience with frontier AI tooling, AI coding assistants, LLM-enabled applications, or agentic systems.
  • Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related technical field, or equivalent practical experience; U.S. Person status required.

Nice to have

  • Experience supporting AI-first development teams and designing quality controls for non-deterministic systems.
  • Experience with automated testing, infrastructure as code, cloud platforms, observability, release engineering, or enterprise systems.

Pay

$146,000 — $194,000 USD (base salary)

Tools

APIs, distributed systems, CI/CD

AI focus

Ensures quality and reliability of AI-enabled software, LLM-enabled applications, and agentic workflows, including testing non-deterministic behavior and AI-first development processes.

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First seen Oct 10, 2026 · Last verified Nov 5, 2026 (UTC)