Sift Stack

Head of Quality Engineering (QA)

Marina Del Rey, CA

Work authorization required$200k-$250kDetected 19 days ago

RoboticsHardware DesignTest AutomationManual TestingLeadershipCommunicationOrganizational Skills

About the role

You will define how Sift tests its products across web, desktop, and backend systems.
And you will be the single person who stakes their reputation on the quality of our releases.
This is a builder's role with significant ambiguity.

Own Sift's overall quality strategy and serve as the accountable owner for release quality sign-off across all customer-facing products.
Build and lead the QA function, scaling to roughly 30 people. The majority will be outsourced testers managed through external vendors
Select, onboard, and manage external QA vendor teams (for example, Keywords-style partners), holding them to clear quality bars, throughput expectations, and SLAs.
Apply AI to accelerate the function: drafting test plans, test cases, and documentation, and building internal tooling such as admin utilities to create test accounts and set up test conditions.
Partner with engineering to expand automated testing over time, while continuing to invest in manual testing where human judgment matters most, especially for UX.
Build and lead the QA function, scaling to roughly 30 people. The majority will be outsourced testers managed through external vendors; internal headcount will start at zero and may grow to a small core of up to ten over time.

At least 8 years of experience in QA, with a track record of senior quality leadership and the scope and judgment expected of a principal-level or director-level owner.
At least 3 years of experience managing people, including building and managing teams and developing test leads.

Experience in aerospace, defense, robotics, autonomous systems, or another mission-critical or safety-relevant domain.
Experience standing up a QA discipline from scratch at a growth-stage company.
Familiarity with observability, telemetry, or large-scale data platforms.
Sift's headquarters is in Marina Del Rey, CA (Next to LAX).
Hands-on quality experience across frontend, with depth in web and ideally desktop, as well as backend systems.
Experience in B2B.
Extensive B2C experience will also be considered.

Sift is the data infrastructure platform for hardware engineering teams.
Sift turns high-frequency telemetry into engineering insights for mission-critical systems.

$200,000 - $250,000 per year. Plus equity and benefits.
U.S. Person Required: Must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident, or protected individual such as an asylee or refugee in compliance with ITAR (International Traffic in Arms Regulations) / EAR (Export Administration Regulations) regulations.

Organize testing into embedded squad testing and dedicated release testing, with test leads coordinating coverage across squads and releases.
Plus equity and benefits.

Quality is a top priority for Sift, and we are building a formal QA discipline to match the standard our customers expect.
Define and track quality metrics and service-level objectives, and report on them to engineering leadership and, when needed, directly to customers.

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