QA Automation Engineer

• Design and build automation to diagnose and resolve CI/CD pipeline failures
• Classify regressions, flaky hardware, and infrastructure issues
• Develop automated methods to identify merges causing failures in long-running test suites
• Evaluate and integrate AI techniques with deterministic automation
• Architect scalable compute and storage for build and test workloads across cloud and on-premises environments
• Own release engineering practices, including versioning schemes, independent component release trains, and compatibility matrices
• Reduce developer toil and time-to-signal across product, development, testing, and release pipelines
• Partner with development groups and Quality Engineering to drive adoption of tooling and best practices
• Shape architecture spanning firmware updates through rack-scale performance testing

Staff Software Engineer, Developer Automation

• Research how modern websites detect and challenge automated traffic
• Analyze detection mechanisms and challenge flows
• Identify browser, device, network, and behavioral signals distinguishing automated access from human traffic
• Reproduce signals synthetically in authorized test environments
• Build automation, diagnostic, and monitoring tools
• Measure scrape success rate, explain regressions, and ship fixes
• Work with platform engineers to deploy improvements across the crawling fleet at scale
• Participate in application review, technical interviews, founder chat, and a paid work trial

Web Automation Engineer

• Own end-to-end automation for Lab evaluations, including environment setup, run orchestration, artifact capture, and result collection
• Instrument scorecards to compare results across product versions, devices, and capture conditions
• Build agent workflows that exercise priority customer use cases at realistic scale across varying difficulty levels
• Convert one-off experiments into standing protocols that run on every relevant release
• Automate recurring inspection and route tasks requiring human judgment to scalable human review
• Produce actionable diagnostics with reproducible cases and attached data
• Collaborate with the AI Data Manager to ensure runs are reproducible from known dataset states
• Report to the Director of the Real-World Test Lab
• Deliver one fully automated priority workflow within 30 days
• Enable automatic evaluation triggers and failure routing within 60 days
• Place three priority workflows under standing automated evaluation with version comparisons within 90 days

AI Automation Engineer – Real-World Test Lab

• Design, build, and maintain automation systems for bioreactor and bioprocessing operations
• Tune and troubleshoot real-world control loops, diagnosing oscillation, lag, overshoot, and instability
• Improve automation reliability through monitoring, logging, fault detection, and recovery mechanisms
• Evolve the AsyncAPI hardware interface so higher-level automation and AI systems can safely interact with physical equipment
• Improve existing control-loop tuning and failure modes
• Develop and optimize new feedback control systems, including PID loops, for stability, performance, and robustness
• Build software interfaces for sensors, actuators, embedded controllers, and orchestration systems
• Partner with mechanical, electrical, process, and software engineers to translate requirements into reliable control implementations
• Learn about biotechnology and bioprocess development

Software Engineer, Automation and Control

• Own quality and automation for large enterprise deployments
• Keep environments consistent across SaaS and PaaS deployments and prevent configuration drift from becoming a defect
• Build agentic automation for bug triage, reproduction, and routing
• Use agentic tools to resolve bugs and ship fixes
• Run repeatable bug bashes on new features before release
• Own bug reporting and communication, including severity-weighted trends, hotspots, and quality outlook
• Work with customers to improve issue reporting, fix validation, and release readiness
• Improve automated testing coverage, CI signal, and test stability
• Connect customer-reported issues to tests or environment checks that would have caught them
• Create and curate datasets to support agent-quality evaluation
• Depending on level, own customer quality experience, set automation standards, drive release-confidence initiatives, mentor engineers, and shape long-term quality strategy

Software Engineer – Quality & Automation

• Automate everything around the chip architecture design methodology
• Guide and tune AI coding agents for specific workflows
• Automate creation of documentation, test coverage reports, visualizations, and design artifacts
• Manage product versioning
• Optimize simulation execution
• Collaborate closely with Architects, MicroArchitects, Software, and Physical Design teams

Codesign Automation Engineer

• Develop, maintain, and execute automated validation and data reconciliation scripts
• Investigate, analyze, and document data discrepancies and anomalies
• Verify system records are created, updated, and maintained correctly across environments
• Retest data fixes and validate resolutions implemented by the development team
• Communicate findings, data health metrics, and quality reports to a collaborative, cross-functional technical team
• Participate in Agile ceremonies including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, and retrospectives

Cyber Automation Engineer

• Design and implement Infrastructure as Code solutions using Ansible across VMware vCenter, bare-metal, and cloud environments
• Automate VM provisioning, template management, network configuration, storage allocation, PXE boot, hardware configuration, BIOS/firmware management, OS deployment, and cloud resource provisioning
• Design reusable, modular Ansible roles and collections
• Write custom Ansible modules, plugins, and filters using Python
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for testing, validating, and deploying automation code
• Integrate automation with Git, secrets management, and monitoring platforms
• Develop RESTful API integrations with enterprise systems
• Create runbooks, architecture diagrams, and operational procedures
• Monitor automation execution, troubleshoot failures, and improve reliability and performance
• Participate in on-call rotation for critical automation infrastructure support
• Track and report automation metrics such as deployment frequency, success rates, and time savings
• Support the ROCKS Kubernetes-based container management platform for classified and unclassified deployments

QA Automation Engineer jobs in California