Software Development Engineer in Test

The role

This person will perform full-lifecycle testing for core server modules and lead API regression and data-consistency checks. They will also evaluate AI search and recommendation systems and develop custom automated testing tools.

What you will do

• Execute functional, performance, stability, and compatibility testing for core server modules
• Lead API regression, data-consistency checks, and service-degradation drills during architecture upgrades
• Maintain the regression matrix
• Own the evaluation strategy for Plaud 4.0 recommendation/search systems
• Design quality gates for Retrieval/Memory systems, long-tail recall, and embedding drift
• Drive testing for Context OS through capacity assessment and chaos drills
• Build automated quality gates for model releases
• Formulate automated evaluation for AI Agents
• Develop and roll out custom automated testing tools
• Produce automation/performance scripts and integrate Agent testing pipelines into CI/CD

Required qualifications

• Experience testing large server-side architecture refactors, microservices, and message queues
• Experience testing LLM/Embedding/RAG/Agent products
• Familiar with vector-retrieval systems (Elasticsearch/Faiss/Milvus) and inference frameworks (vLLM/Triton)
• Familiar with automation frameworks (Selenium/Playwright/Pytest) and Kubernetes/Docker
• Has an established methodology for AI product quality assurance

Benefits

• Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP)
• Access to best-in-class AI tools including Gemini, Claude Code, and other frontier AI systems
• Choice of top-spec laptops, high-performance workstation setups, and cutting-edge Plaud devices
• Annual company offsites and team events
• Medical insurance and WICA coverage for all full-time employees

About the company

Plaud is a San Francisco-based company building the real-world AI interface for professionals. It is a bootstrapped, profitable company with a $300M revenue run rate.