Vinci
Release Manager & QA Engineer
$150K–$170K
Palo Alto HQ · Hybrid · Manager · Full-time · Posted Aug 25, 2026
- Experience
- 6+ years in software quality engineering.
About the job
Own release cycles and quality assurance for Vinci’s AI models and web platform, including automated testing, numerical validation, and production deployment decisions.
What you'll do
- Manage release versioning, Go/No-Go decisions, deployment pipelines, and customer installations.
- Design automated end-to-end tests for the web interface and physics-AI inference engines, and validate results against traditional FEA benchmarks.
- Translate technical updates into release notes and actionable information for technical and non-technical customers.
What they ask for
- 6+ years of experience in software quality engineering.
- Ability to turn complex engineering requirements into structured test logic and test plans.
- Strong attention to detail and analytical risk-evaluation skills for release decisions.
- Direct experience managing deployments in Linux/Debian using tools such as GitHub Actions, Docker, or Jenkins.
Nice to have
- Familiarity with CAD/CAE data formats or thermal/mechanical simulation concepts.
- Experience testing high-performance computing applications or GPU-accelerated software.
Pay
$150K – $170K (base salary)
Tools
Python, Playwright, Linux/Debian, GitHub Actions, Docker, Jenkins, GDSII, OASIS
AI focus
Verify and validate AI models, including testing physics-AI inference engines and comparing AI-generated thermal and mechanical results with traditional FEA benchmarks.
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