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# Staff Software Engineer, Quality and Test Automation

- **Company:** AVY CORPORATION
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $156,000.0 - $208,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Automation of Tests, Machine Learning, Test Case, Test Data
- **Published:** September 24, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.thejobnetwork.com/job/staff-software-engineer-test-509975605

## About the Role

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

## Description

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.

What you'll do:

 * 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.

Avy is for you if:

 * You lift others up while maintaining exceptionally high standards, balancing confidence with humility.
 * You're compassionate with people while being rigorous with ideas
 * You think big, embrace bold ideas, and ask "what would it take?" instead of defaulting to "why not."
 * You thrive in uncertainty and fast-changing environments, seeing ambiguity as an opportunity to solve hard problems and push boundaries.
 * You are experienced and bring perspective, but know that the world is rapidly changing and that to succeed we must all do things we've never done before
 * You naturally ask 'can we get 80% of the value with 20% of the effort?' but know when to invest heavily for strategic advantage
 * You don't just meet expectations, you consistently raise the bar, inspiring those around you to do the same
 * You balance craftsman pride with the wisdom to ship fast and iterate
 * You see failures not as setbacks, but as learning opportunities that accelerate progress