Junior Quality Engineer

Striveworks • Austin, TX

27d • $84,000 - $99,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

Build, Deploy, and Maintain AI for an Unpredictable World Striveworks helps organizations harness the power of artificial intelligence to solve real-world national security and business challenges by serving as the command center between data, models, and business outcomes. Founded by data scientists and engineers, Striveworks set out to make the journey from deployment to ongoing optimization simple and effective. With Striveworks, organizations aren’t just deploying AI—they’re building systems that remain reliable, adaptable, and ready to scale in an unpredictable world. Mission-critical operations require models that perform where they’re deployed, scale as workloads grow, and adapt rapidly as AI capabilities advance. Striveworks meets these demands, increasing reliability and performance while lowering costs—and enabling confident, data-driven decision-making in dynamic environments. The Role As a Junior Quality Engineer at Striveworks, you will be challenged—and trusted—on day one to safeguard and improve the quality of our core products. In this mission-critical work, you will verify that software is performing as designed, document test results and implications, plan and implement new test strategies, and grow in your knowledge of our software. You’re right for this opportunity if you value and possess technical aptitude and enjoy pushing the boundaries of your own capabilities. You are passionate about what is possible with software engineering, data science, and machine learning. You are comfortable following a defined plan while also thinking about how it can be improved, and you communicate results and ideas to your team throughout the process. Your day-to-day will include: Executing manual software tests based on written test plans and scripts Executing manual software tests based on your intuition of what is most useful Clearly documenting deficiencies, reproduction paths, and ideas for underlying causes Clearly documenting and communicating aggregate test results and their implications Translating requirements documents and your knowledge of the products’ visions into relevant test plans and scripts Envisioning, defining, and communicating new test strategies, plans, or scripts that improve coverage, methodology, and/or efficiency Assisting with automating tests As able, diagnosing the root causes of test failures As able, implementing software fixes to be reviewed by other engineers As able, building tools and infrastructure to improve testing Continually expanding your knowledge of Striveworks’ software and your ability to contribute to it This position offers a hybrid or on-site work environment based at our office in northwest Austin, TX. The Right Fit In addition to the specific skills and expertise detailed below, we are looking for individuals who share our values. Sharing a set of values allows us to move at the speed of trust. Collectively, we value a high-trust work environment where people respect each other and use candor kindly and constructively. We value work that intersects passion and perseverance, we geek out about the potential of our contributions, and we find joy in working hard on things that matter. Finally, we value taking ownership, having agency, and feeling individual responsibility for collective results.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or another engineering or science discipline, or completion of a software development boot camp and 0-2 years of relevant professional experience
• Understanding of core programming concepts and basic proficiency in one or more programming languages
• Understanding of software testing concepts and methodology
• Strong problem solving and analytical skills
• Attention to detail
• Ability to clearly communicate technical topics in documents and conversations
• Due to the nature of this role, candidates must be a US person (a US citizen, a US national, or a Green Card holder)

Nice To Haves

• Proficiency with test automation tools such as Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, TestRail, React Testing Library, Postman, or similar
• Exposure to or proficiency with modern software engineering tools and processes (Agile, version control, issue tracking, CI/CD, etc.)
• Proficiency in JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, or Golang
• Experience with containerization tools such as Docker, Podman, or Kubernetes (k8s)
• Exposure to concepts in machine learning and data science, and/or machine learning libraries like TensorFlow, PyTorch, sk-learn, or similar
• Experience delivering technology solutions in secure government environments
• Eligibility and willingness to obtain and maintain a Secret (or above) US security clearance, or an active Secret (or above) US security clearance

Responsibilities

• Executing manual software tests based on written test plans and scripts
• Executing manual software tests based on your intuition of what is most useful
• Clearly documenting deficiencies, reproduction paths, and ideas for underlying causes
• Clearly documenting and communicating aggregate test results and their implications
• Translating requirements documents and your knowledge of the products’ visions into relevant test plans and scripts
• Envisioning, defining, and communicating new test strategies, plans, or scripts that improve coverage, methodology, and/or efficiency
• Assisting with automating tests
• As able, diagnosing the root causes of test failures
• As able, implementing software fixes to be reviewed by other engineers
• As able, building tools and infrastructure to improve testing
• Continually expanding your knowledge of Striveworks’ software and your ability to contribute to it

Benefits

• Medical/dental/vision insurance
• Voluntary life, long-term disability, accident, and hospital indemnity insurance
• HSA and FSA (including dependent care FSA) plans
• 401(k) plan
• Unlimited PTO
• Paid parental leave

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Number of Employees: 51-100 employees