Junior Quality Engineer

Build Deploy and Maintain AI for an Unpredictable World

Striveworks helps organizations harness the power of artificial intelligence to solve real-world national security and business challenges by serving as the command center between data models and business outcomes. Founded by data scientists and engineers Striveworks set out to make the journey from deployment to ongoing optimization simple and effective.

With Striveworks organizations arent just deploying AItheyre building systems that remain reliable adaptable and ready to scale in an unpredictable world. Mission-critical operations require models that perform where theyre deployed scale as workloads grow and adapt rapidly as AI capabilities advance. Striveworks meets these demands increasing reliability and performance while lowering costsand enabling confident data-driven decision-making in dynamic environments.

The Role

As a Junior Quality Engineer at Striveworks you will be challengedand trustedon day one to safeguard and improve the quality of our core this mission-critical work you will verify that software is performing as designed document test results and implications plan and implement new test strategies and grow in your knowledge of our software.

Youre right for this opportunity if you value and possess technical aptitude and enjoy pushing the boundaries of your own capabilities. You are passionate about what is possible with software engineering data science and machine learning. You are comfortable following a defined plan while also thinking about how it can be improved and you communicate results and ideas to your team throughout the process.

Your day-to-day will include:

• Executing manual software tests based on written test plans and scripts
• Executing manual software tests based on your intuition of what is most useful
• Clearly documenting deficiencies reproduction paths and ideas for underlying causes
• Clearly documenting and communicating aggregate test results and their implications
• Translating requirements documents and your knowledge of the products visions into relevant test plans and scripts
• Envisioning defining and communicating new test strategies plans or scripts that improve coverage methodology and/or efficiency
• Assisting with automating tests
• As able diagnosing the root causes of test failures
• As able implementing software fixes to be reviewed by other engineers
• As able building tools and infrastructure to improve testing
• Continually expanding your knowledge of Striveworks software and your ability to contribute to it

This position offers a hybrid or on-site work environment based at our office in northwest Austin TX.

The Right Fit

In addition to the specific skills and expertise detailed below we are looking for individuals who share our values. Sharing a set of values allows us to move at the speed of trust.

Collectively we value a high-trust work environment where people respect each other and use candor kindly and constructively. We value work that intersects passion and perseverance we geek out about the potential of our contributions and we find joy in working hard on things that matter. Finally we value taking ownership having agency and feeling individual responsibility for collective results.

Heres what were looking for:

• Bachelors degree in computer science or another engineering or science discipline or completion of a software development boot camp and 0-2 years of relevant professional experience
• Understanding of core programming concepts and basic proficiency in one or more programming languages
• Understanding of software testing concepts and methodology
• Strong problem solving and analytical skills
• Attention to detail
• Ability to clearly communicate technical topics in documents and conversations
• Due to the nature of this role candidates must be a US person (a US citizen a US national or a Green Card holder)

The Wish List

Were very interested in candidates who possess the above qualifications and we appreciate and consider the addition of:

• Proficiency with test automation tools such as Selenium Cypress Playwright TestRail React Testing Library Postman or similar
• Exposure to or proficiency with modern software engineering tools and processes (Agile version control issue tracking CI/CD etc.)
• Proficiency in JavaScript TypeScript Python or Golang
• Experience with containerization tools such as Docker Podman or Kubernetes (k8s)
• Exposure to concepts in machine learning and data science and/or machine learning libraries like TensorFlow PyTorch sk-learn or similar
• Experience delivering technology solutions in secure government environments
• Eligibility and willingness to obtain and maintain a Secret (or above) US security clearance or an active Secret (or above) US security clearance

The anticipated base pay range for this position is $84000$99000/year. Striveworks total compensation package includes a competitive base salary equity grants and cash bonuses.

The Benefits

• Medical/dental/vision insurance
• Voluntary life long-term disability accident and hospital indemnity insurance
• HSA and FSA (including dependent care FSA) plans
• 401(k) plan
• Unlimited PTO
• Paid parental leave

Striveworks is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate in employment on the basis of race color religion belief sex (including pregnancy and gender identity or expression) national origin social or ethnic origin political affiliation sexual orientation marital status disability genetic information age membership in an employee organization retaliation parental status military service or other non-merit factors. Striveworks will not tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind.

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In compliance with federal law all persons hired will be required to verify their identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete an employment eligibility verification form upon hire.

Striveworks is a participating employer in the E-Verify program.