D Matrix

Director, Software Quality Engineering

Santa Clara, Remote. Posted 29 days ago

The role

The Director, Software Quality Engineering leads quality across firmware, compiler, runtime, and inference-serving software. You will set the vision, define test architecture, and lead automation strategy and execution for the Software Quality Engineering team.

What you will do

  • Define the quality strategy, technical roadmap, and test architecture
  • Build reusable test frameworks and automated coverage
  • Develop continuous soak testing to assess long-run stability
  • Establish numerical comparison and tolerance policies
  • Define measurable QA readiness criteria and quality gates
  • Improve defect triage and turn lessons into better coverage
  • Evaluate and adopt AI-assisted test generation, triage, and failure clustering
  • Establish and maintain processes for open-source and proprietary software license compliance
  • Coordinate implementation and review of the company's AI use policy
  • Coach and develop the software quality engineering team

Required qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
  • Experience setting quality strategy and test architecture while leading daily delivery and developing a software quality or test engineering team
  • Strong programming ability in Python and/or C++, including building test frameworks and reviewing test code
  • Systems software testing experience in firmware, compilers, runtimes, drivers, distributed systems, or comparable software, including hardware/software integration with real devices
  • Ability to evaluate AI-assisted engineering workflows and judge whether AI-generated tests verify intended behavior
  • Experience designing test coverage under resource constraints, integrating tests into CI, and defining promotion and release gates
  • Sound judgment about coverage, risk, and metrics

Nice to have

  • Knowledge of machine learning or inference, including quantization, numerics, and model accuracy evaluation
  • Familiarity with inference-serving software and relevant performance benchmarks
  • Experience with Kubernetes-based test environments
  • Experience with hardware-in-the-loop testing, device farms, or lab automation
  • Experience managing open-source license compliance

About the company

d-Matrix has pioneered a memory-centric architecture that brings compute directly into memory. The team works on chips, software, and rack-scale systems to tackle AI infrastructure challenges.

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