Quality & Reliability Engineer

• We’re hiring a Quality & Reliability Engineer to level up how we test, release, and operate software at Dirac. You’ll work closely with our engineering team to drive end-to-end quality—improving test coverage, automation, observability, and incident response across our platform.
• This is a hands-on IC role with high leverage. You’ll reduce downtime, increase confidence in releases, and make everyone around you more effective—by embedding quality into the way we build, ship, and operate.
• What You’ll Do
• - Own Quality at Scale – Design and implement test plans, coverage strategies, and reliability workflows that improve release hygiene and catch issues early. - Build Test & Release Infrastructure – Develop and maintain automated test frameworks and CI/CD pipelines that gate broken code and keep staging environments clean. - Improve Observability & Debuggability – Strengthen logging, alerting, and monitoring to make failures fast and easy to diagnose. - Act as a Reliability Partner – Work alongside software and DevOps engineers to reduce flakiness, prevent regressions, and keep BuildOS production-ready. - Lead Postmortems & Incident Reviews – Help build a blameless culture of learning, where quality issues lead to structural improvements, not just quick fixes. - Bridge Engineering & Customer Teams – Embed insights from support, QA, and the field directly into automated test cases and product workflows.
• What You Bring

• - Experience with modern QA and testing practices, including unit, integration, and end-to-end tests. - Familiarity with test frameworks like Cypress, Jest, PyTest, Selenium, etc. - Experience building or maintaining CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab, CircleCI, etc.). - Experience with modern build and deployment tooling (e.g., Terraform, Docker, NixOS, CircleCI) - Strong programming comfort in TypeScript, Python, or C++. - Familiarity with gRPC, HTTP APIs, and scripting tools like Postman or curl. - Systems thinker who sees how bugs ripple through code, infrastructure, and users. - Strong communicator—can work across functions and translate messy problems into clean fixes. - High agency and ownership—you don't just find problems, you fix them.
• Nice To Have
• - Experience with release automation, staging hygiene, or canary/bake-in pipelines. - Background in manufacturing, industrial systems, or related physical industries. - Early-stage startup experience—comfortable with ambiguity and momentum.
• Equal Opportunity Employer
• Dirac is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with Dirac is governed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.
• Location & Travel
• This role is fully in-person at our NYC office.
• Eligibility
• Employment is restricted to U.S. Persons as defined by ITAR (22 CFR §120.15)
• Benefits:

• - Health, Dental, Vision Insurance: Comprehensive coverage to ensure you and your family stay healthy. - Generous Paid Time Off: Enjoy flexible, high-trust PTO and sick leave. - Stock Options: Participate in our success with a generous stock option plan. - Commuter Benefits (NYC): Save on transportation costs with our commuter benefits program.

Dirac is on a mission to reindustrialize The West. American manufacturing is broken—burdened by inefficiency, bureaucracy, and outdated processes. We are pioneering Model-Based Manufacturing, where context-aware production planning informs design in real-time—eliminating the disconnect between engineering and manufacturing. Our platform automates what can be automated and captures tribal knowledge where automation falls short, creating a seamless system for building at scale. We're building the tools modern manufacturers need to move faster and build better, the pillars of a more abundant future. We are a mission-driven company of world-class engineers and operators with a culture of high trust, high agency, and high autonomy. About the Role