Quality Engineer
Engineers in this role focus on testing and validating complex AI software systems across domains like machine learning frameworks, inference platforms, and autonomous systems. They design automated test frameworks, build CI/CD infrastructure, and collaborate with engineering teams to ensure AI products meet stringent quality and performance standards. What distinguishes them is their emphasis on systems-level thinking—they architect scalable testing solutions that handle the unique challenges of AI workloads, from ML model accuracy validation to hardware-software integration testing. These engineers typically sit within larger quality or systems teams in AI-focused companies, working cross-functionally with ML engineers, infrastructure teams, and product owners to accelerate development velocity while maintaining reliability and safety.
Measured across 49 of 52 open postings.
This role is advertised at 2 levels, so a single figure for the role would describe none of them. Experience and pay are the midpoints for each level on its own.
| Level | Share | Median years | Median pay |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mid | 45%(22) | 5 | — |
| Senior | 27%(13) | — | $149k |
A dash means too few postings stated it to report a midpoint. Most companies do not publish a salary band, so pay is indicative rather than a market rate. 3 levels with fewer than 10 open postings are not shown.
“defining and implementing rigorous quality strategies for our enterprise-grade LLMs and AI agents”
“help pioneer quality practices specific to LLM applications, such as prompt regression testing and evaluation suites”
“Leverage AI agents and latest technologies for optimal test automation”
“Evaluate frontier model releases and the latest OSS model drops, building the infrastructure and quality signals”
Requirements are a share of every open posting, so a role missing from this list is one where almost nobody asks. Work mode is different: many postings never say, so that figure counts only the ones that do. A posting stops being advertised when it is filled, cancelled or reorganised, so read the last figure as how long these stay on the market, not as time to hire.
Skills
What companies are looking for in this role.
Test automation and quality strategy
Incident response and reliability
Quality management systems
CI/CD and release automation
Hardware test and validation
Technical issue diagnosis
Monitoring and observability
Process design and improvement
Backend and API engineering
Distributed systems architecture
ML systems development
Cloud infrastructure operations
Systems performance optimization
Hardware and embedded systems
Data quality and governance
AI evaluation design
Test automation and instrumentation
AI autonomy safety assurance
AI support automation
Mentoring and code review
Technology
The tools and technologies that define this role.
Open Jobs
52 open Quality Engineer jobs across 22 companies.
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