Software Quality Engineer (AI)

Location: San Bruno, California, United States

Estimated base salary: $150K–$170K annually, excluding benefits and potential equity.

Company

hirify.global develops waste prevention technology and connected systems that transform food scraps into valuable resources for homes, businesses, and municipalities.

What you will do

• Translate requirements and feature requests into comprehensive test plans and customer scenarios.
• Design and execute tests for consumer web, iOS and Android apps, e-commerce flows, and enterprise software.
• Validate enterprise capabilities including multi-user accounts, roles and permissions, reporting, data accuracy, integrations, scale, and reliability.
• Test across devices, operating systems, screen sizes, browsers, network conditions, accessibility, and performance, and validate releases.
• Build and extend automation for web, mobile, enterprise, and full-stack scenarios using real-world customer behavior.
• Partner with software, cloud, firmware, hardware, product, SDET, and Technical Program Management teams on end-to-end validation, bug triage, device metrics, CI/CD, deployment, and AI-assisted testing practices.

Requirements

• B.S. in Computer Science or a related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years in software development and quality assurance.
• Experience testing consumer-facing web, mobile iOS and/or Android, e-commerce, and enterprise or B2B software.
• Strong foundations in test planning, test design, and automation.
• Hands-on experience with Python and/or Java.
• Ability to create an automation framework and automated tests using pytest and tools such as Playwright or Appium, and to increase test coverage.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, including documentation and test architecture diagrams.
• Daily use of AI coding tools such as Claude Code for testing workflows.

Nice to have

• Experience testing React Native mobile applications and AWS Lambda with CDK in TypeScript.
• Experience testing connected or hardware-paired consumer products.
• Startup or rapid prototyping experience.
• Familiarity with Agile methodologies, version control systems such as GitHub, and CI/CD pipelines.

Culture & Benefits

• Work in a small software quality team with cross-functional collaboration across software, hardware, product, cloud, firmware, and program management.
• AI-assisted development is part of the daily software workflow, including setting standards for reviewing AI-generated tests.
• Base salary excludes benefits and a potential equity grant.