Member of Technical Staff, Quality Engineering

Compensation context

Listed annual salary range: $260,000–$400,000/year. The employer’s base salary is stated separately in the Compensation & Benefits Notice below; these figures differ and should not be treated as the same pay guarantee.

Job Title: Member of Technical Staff, Quality Engineering

Type of job: full-time

Location: Remote

About the role

You'll design and build a smart, heavily automated quality engineering system in which AI agents help write tests, run regression suites, dig into failures, and keep widening test coverage.

You'll own the technical base that lets engineering ship fast and with confidence, without QA headcount growing as the product gets more complex.

micro1 wants an engineer at Staff level with strong software fundamentals, deep skill in test automation, and a history of creating systems in which quality is automated and built into development.

What You'll Do

• Build agentic QA systems: Design and roll out AI-powered workflows for writing tests, automated regression runs, failure analysis, and smart bug triage.
• Own test automation architecture: Build automation frameworks that scale and are easy to maintain, covering web apps, APIs, integrations, and key end-to-end flows.
• Make quality continuous: Weave automated quality checks into release steps, CI/CD pipelines, and development workflows.
• Automate regression and triage: Create systems that catch regressions, point to probable root causes, sort failures, and cut the manual work of investigating issues.
• Improve testing intelligence: Use AI agents to find coverage gaps, produce useful test scenarios, and rank testing by product changes and risk.
• Design QA that scales: Create workflows that keep up with a more complex product and faster engineering without QA staff growing at the same rate.
• Set up quality observability: Give a clear view of test reliability, regression trends, readiness to release, and overall product quality.
• Raise the engineering bar: Coach engineers, set testing standards, and build a culture where everyone in engineering owns quality.

What We're Looking For

• Staff-level engineering skill with deep experience in test automation architecture, quality engineering, or SDET (software development in test).
• Strong practical coding skill and a background building production-quality test automation frameworks.
• Broad experience automating web apps, APIs, and complicated end-to-end flows.
• Expert with current test frameworks like Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, pytest, or equivalents.
• Solid grasp of integration and contract tests, CI/CD, regression strategy, and test infrastructure.
• Clear experience designing testing systems that scale, not only writing or maintaining single test cases.
• AI-native engineering habits: You already lean heavily on AI coding agents and have applied AI in practice to test creation, automation, debugging, or quality workflows.
• Strong systems thinking: you can find bottlenecks and design automation that takes repetitive QA work away.
• Background setting engineering quality standards and coaching developers or QA engineers.
• Can own quality engineering architecture alone while staying deeply hands-on.

Nice to have

• You've built agentic QA workflows or AI-powered test systems that real development teams rely on.
• You've cut manual regression testing sharply through smart automation.
• You've designed test infrastructure that lets a small engineering team iterate on the product quickly.
• You've tested AI-powered products, including agent workflows, model evals, or behavior that isn't deterministic.
• You see quality as an engineering platform, not a separate stage of shipping software.
• You can switch easily among writing automation code, digging into complicated failures, and designing quality systems for the whole company.

Compensation & Benefits Notice

Nationally, base pay for this full-time job runs $180,000–$250,000. Every employee can receive equity, and bonuses tied to performance may also apply depending on the role and company policy. Benefits cover health-insurance premiums (reimbursed at up to 100%), paid time off, a 401(k) with a company match, and other perks meant for a remote-first team that performs at a high level.

micro1 hires on an equal-opportunity basis. Every qualified applicant is considered without regard to age, color, disability, national origin, race, religion, sex (pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation included), veteran status, genetic information, or any other trait that applicable local laws, ordinances, or regulations protect. Applicants who need help or a reasonable accommodation while applying can ask for it.

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