Head of Quality Engineering

The role

You will lead the Quality organization by owning the quality system and spreading successful practices across product teams. You will define quality metrics, establish risk-based release readiness, and ensure quality is integrated into the development lifecycle.

What you will do

• Lead one Quality team while keeping it embedded in product teams
• Own the quality system including strategy, risk assessment, tooling, and environments
• Integrate test strategy and risk into product planning
• Establish a risk-based release lifecycle and go/no-go process
• Define radiologist personas and representative workflows for testing
• Manage test stability, failure triage, and flaky test policies
• Define and report quality metrics and OKRs
• Partner with incident review owners to turn defects into prevention
• Define quality for non-deterministic AI systems
• Embed clinical risk and compliance into quality practices

Required qualifications

• 10+ years in software quality and test engineering
• 5+ years leading quality teams
• Track record of building a quality function and staffing it cost-effectively
• Experience raising the bar across inconsistent quality organizations
• Strong hands-on foundation in test automation (end-to-end, API, and desktop or Electron UI automation in CI/CD pipelines)
• Experience shifting quality left
• Data-driven approach using metrics like escaped defects and change failure rate
• Experience with risk-based testing for integration-heavy products
• Ability to build a long-term quality roadmap and broker decisions with engineering leaders
• Excellent communication across technical and non-technical audiences
• Expert hiring and people management for distributed teams across time zones
• Experience managing quality tooling and vendor relationships

Nice to have

• Experience in healthtech or a regulated environment (HIPAA, PHI, SOC 2)
• Medical device software practices (SaMD, IEC 62304, ISO 14971 risk management)
• Familiarity with radiology workflows and systems (PACS, RIS, EHR, dictation platforms, HL7/FHIR, FHIRcast, or DICOM)
• Evaluated ML or AI systems in production
• Owned performance, load, or reliability testing
• Led a multi-team quality organization, including managers or Staff-level engineers
• Built or scaled a quality function at a high-growth startup

Benefits

• Comprehensive Medical, Dental, Vision & Life insurance
• HSA (with employer match), FSA, & DCFSA
• 401(k)
• 11 Paid Company Holidays
• Flexible PTO policy
• Annual company-wide offsite
• Periodic team offsites
• Annual equipment stipend

About the company

Rad AI is on a mission to transform healthcare with artificial intelligence. The company builds AI-driven solutions for radiology to reduce burnout and improve patient care.