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Senior Software Developer in Test Foundation - Seattle
Why We Have This Role
We are looking for a Senior SDET to lead the development of our agentic evaluation framework within the ML team. As our AI capabilities expand we need specialized quality engineering expertise to ensure robust testing processes and tooling for our agentic AI features. You will be responsible for designing implementing and scaling testing frameworks that ensure Qualtrics delivers responsible high-quality AI solutions to our customers. This role is critical for standardizing how we test AI agents across the organization and establishing Qualtrics as a leader in responsible AI development.
How Youll Find Success
- Drive the quality assurance strategy for agentic features ensuring standardization of testing approaches from a customer-centric perspective
- Develop comprehensive evaluation tools and frameworks that enable automated testing of AI agent workflows
- Define model launch readiness criteria for agentic features that align with both customer needs and regulatory requirements
- Establish model risk management protocols that document AI system capabilities and limitations
- Create knowledge transfer processes to disseminate best practices in AI testing across Qualtrics teams
- Work in a collaborative environment with ML Engineers Research Scientists Software Engineers and Product Managers
How Youll Grow
- Become an expert in the emerging field of AI agent testing and evaluation
- Lead the development of innovative testing methodologies for complex AI systems
- Mentor other quality engineers on AI-specific testing approaches and tools
- Build upon our existing LLM evaluation infrastructure to create next-generation testing capabilities
- Expand your technical leadership through cross-functional collaboration and knowledge sharing
- Stay at the forefront of AI testing practices by researching and implementing new techniques
Things Youll Do
- Design and implement automated evaluation frameworks for testing AI agent behaviors and outputs
- Build upon our existing AI test strategy and LLM-as-a-Judge infrastructure to create comprehensive testing solutions
- Develop metrics and benchmarks to quantify AI system quality reliability and safety
- Create reproducible test scenarios that simulate real-world user interactions with AI agents
- Collaborate with product teams to integrate quality processes into their AI development workflows
- Identify and mitigate potential risks in AI agent behaviors including hallucination detection and security guardrails
- Present testing results and quality metrics to stakeholders across engineering and product teams
What Were Looking For On Your Resume
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science or related field
- 5 years of professional coding experience with strong Python skills
- 2 years experience building test automation frameworks and tools from scratch
- 5 years of relevant experience as part of an automated test team with 1 years as a senior contributor
- Understanding of Machine Learning concepts (deep learning categorization classification data mining)
- Experience with Machine Learning evaluation frameworks
- Experience with CI/CD deployment automation (Jenkins etc.)
- Proficiency with testing distributed systems and SOA (Service Oriented Architecture)
- Experience applying various software testing techniques (equivalence class partitioning boundary value testing pairwise testing)
- Strong critical thinking and root cause analysis skills
What You Should Know About This Team
- The team works on cutting-edge AI technologies that power many of Qualtrics product experiences.
- Our team is pioneering quality engineering practices for AI systems and building the infrastructure that enables reliable safe and effective AI features.
- Were actively working on several innovative AI projects including security guardrails for AI models LLM-based evaluation systems and agentic workflows across various Qualtrics products.
- The team has a strong culture of collaboration innovation and quality and were looking for someone who can help us elevate our testing practices for these complex systems.
Our Teams Favorite Perks and Benefits
- Wellness Reimbursement: $300 per quarter for wellness activities including gym memberships spa massages workout equipment meditation apps and much more.
- Experience Bonus: $1800 to be used for an Experience of your choosing.
- Amazing QGroup Communities: MOSAIQ Green Team Qualtrics Pride Q&Able Qualtrics Salute and Womens Leadership Development which exist as places for support allyship and advocacy.
The Qualtrics Hybrid Work Model: Our hybrid work model is elegantly simple: we all gather in the office three days a week; Mondays and Thursdays plus one day selected by your organizational leader. These purposeful in-person days in thoughtfully designed offices help us do our best work and harness the power of collaboration and innovation. For the rest of the week work where you want owning the integration of work and life.
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For full-time positions this pay range is for base per year; however base pay offered may vary depending on location job-related knowledge education skills and experience.A sign-on bonus and restricted stock units may be included in an employment offer in addition to a range of medical financial and other benefits based on eligibility criteria.
Washington State Annual Pay Transparency Range
$139500$254500 USD
Required Experience:
Senior IC