Lila Sciences
Senior Director, Software Development, Test Automation
$260K–$390K
San Francisco, CA USA +1 · Director · Full-time · Posted Jul 9, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco, CA USA
San Francisco, CA - Experience
- 10+ years in software engineering; 5+ years leading test automation, quality engineering, or platform/SRE-adjacent functions; 3+ years managing engineers.
About the job
Architect and lead an adopted test automation and quality engineering platform for AI-powered scientific products, including CI/CD, AI evaluation, and lab automation quality controls.
What you'll do
- Build the test automation platform, set testing standards, and improve CI/CD speed and reliability.
- Establish AI test-generation and evaluation practices, quality metrics, and dashboards.
- Build and lead a small team; develop lab QC frameworks with Science Ops, including ALCOA+ data-integrity controls.
What they ask for
- 10+ years in software engineering, including 5+ years leading test automation, quality engineering, or platform/SRE-adjacent functions.
- 3+ years managing engineers, including building or scaling a team.
- Deep CI/CD expertise, including test orchestration, parallelization, caching, hermetic environments, and test impact analysis.
- Production experience with AI-driven test automation and rigorous evaluation; track record of launching a test automation platform adopted by engineering teams.
Nice to have
- Experience in GxP-regulated environments or scientific data integrity programs.
- Experience with lab automation, LIMS, or other instrument-driven systems.
Pay
$260,000 — $390,000 USD base salary
Tools
Python, Typescript, GitHub Actions, Nx, Turborepo, Bazel, LLMs, MCP
AI focus
Apply LLMs and vision models to test generation, test maintenance, visual regression, and failure triage; establish evals and regression pipelines for AI/agent systems.
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