Quality Engineering Manager (AI)

Location: Hybrid, with three days a week in the San Francisco office

Salary: $180,000–$230,000 annual base for San Francisco candidates; eligible for equity.

Company

hirify.global provides an AI-powered operating system for real estate investing, combining institutional real estate listings, investment data, and execution workflows in one platform.

What you will do

• Lead the transition from a centralized QA team to embedded Quality Engineers supporting delivery teams.
• Define shared test strategy, release criteria, quality standards, and tooling.
• Coach Quality Engineers, run the QE community of practice, and help set the hiring bar.
• Review test design and automation code, and build shared frameworks where needed.
• Define testing approaches for AI-powered and agentic features, including responsible use of AI tools.
• Run blameless postmortems, publish escape-rate scorecards, and shape engineering quality strategy with engineering leadership.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in quality engineering, SDET, or similar roles, including leading or guiding a QA team or function.
• Hands-on experience across analysis, test design, and automation, including Playwright, Cypress, or a similar tool.
• Experience with TypeScript, Python, or Go in a modern SaaS environment.
• Track record of analyzing quality processes, selecting meaningful metrics, and reducing escaped defects.
• Experience driving adoption of quality practices across Engineering, Product, Design, and Customer Success.
• Regular use of Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Claude, or similar AI tools with a deliberate review step before relying on generated output.
• Experience with blameless postmortems and structured root-cause analysis such as 5 Whys, Fishbone, or CAPA.
• Comfort working in a fast-moving, growth-stage environment.
• BS in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent experience.

Nice to have

• Experience evaluating LLM-based or agentic features using datasets, graders, LLM-as-judge methods, or regression suites in CI, with tools such as LangSmith, Braintrust, or DeepEval.
• Experience with Sentry, Datadog, Pendo, or Amplitude to guide test strategy.
• Real estate, fintech, or enterprise B2B SaaS experience.
• Experience leading a transition from manual testing to automation or working at an AI-era startup.
• Performance, security, or chaos engineering expertise.
• Conference talks or open source contributions.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid three-days-in-office policy in San Francisco.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance, Flexible Spending Account, and 401(k).
• Paid parental leave, flexible time off, and company-sponsored commuter benefits.
• Catered lunches and snacks plus monthly wellness reimbursement.
• AI-assisted transcription may be used during video interviews for internal note-taking and evaluation only.