Staff Software Engineer in Test

Avy • San Francisco, CA

2d • Hybrid

About The Position

Avy's mission is to empower humans to work more efficiently and effectively with each other and with technology in knowledge work positions. We believe that software that acts as your companion, looking out for your best interests and helping you level up at work in a trusted, secure way, will not only make the world more productive, but will improve quality of life for everyone it touches. Avy was founded by a serial founder and former leader in the AI/ML group at Apple, has team members with multiple exits (including an IPO), and is backed by $10M in pre-seed and seed funding to ensure we can execute at the highest level. This role requires a self-starter that seeks high impact and high ownership while balancing hard technical problems with strategic thinking about how we ship our product. As the founding member of the formal Quality Engineering team, you'll have the freedom to improve or reinvent processes and techniques to help us ensure we ship a trusted product, building on existing work in test automation and quality assurance as appropriate. As we grow, you will have substantial latitude to shape how it operates and steer how it grows. Our product is ambitious: it combines components across desktop, mobile, and cloud computers. Correctness, speed, and reliability are critical to user trust and our deep use of machine learning and AI in every facet of the product requires novel, unconventional approaches to ensuring quality. This is a hard problem and you’ll have ample opportunity to learn, grow, and make an impact.

Requirements

• Proven experience in software engineering and in testing (7+ years), both for native applications (desktop and/or mobile) and server components
• Prior experience at a startup or small, high-velocity team—ideally where you helped launch a complex product
• Comfort working in complex systems in which requirements and goals might be ill-defined or change rapidly as the company learns
• Multi language proficiency at least one statically typed language

Nice To Haves

• Experience with machine learning and AI models, either on device or in the cloud, is desired but not required.

Responsibilities

• Define and own our testing and quality measurement and assurance strategy across platforms
• Build our test automation infrastructure to support reliable deployment across multiple platforms and operating systems, at scale
• Establish processes that balance fast iteration and product evolution with high confidence in releases, evolving from today’s needs to what will be required at scale
• Be deeply hands-on, understanding product requirements, writing test cases, and manually testing as needed until you automate testing of new requirements
• Design for AI-driven variability, developing approaches to evaluate nondeterministic outputs and ensuring product behavior remains trustworthy and user-aligned
• Ensure performance and resource discipline, especially around on-device AI models that demand careful management of CPU, memory, and responsiveness
• Get creative with test data, including using AI to generate high-quality synthetic inputs for stress, scale, edge-case testing, and other business uses
• Lay the foundation for a team, with the opportunity to hire and mentor QA and test automation engineers as we grow
• Communicate and collaborate closely with internal colleagues and external users and partners. This is not a customer support role, but we all jump in to learn from customers, address their needs, and make their experience with Avy successful.

Benefits

• Competitive salary ($156,000-$208,000) with meaningful equity and substantial upside potential
• Competitive benefits (health, vision, dental, 401K, etc) and paid parental leave
• Developer-worthy equipment and tools are provided to ensure you have all you need to excel.
• Nearly endless opportunities for growth and advancement as the company succeeds and meets its objectives.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed