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.