What are the responsibilities and job description for the Quality & Reliability Engineer position at Dirac, Inc.?
About the Company:
American manufacturing is broken and burdened by inefficiency, bureaucracy, and outdated processes. At Dirac, 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.
What You’ll Do
- Design and implement test plans, coverage strategies, and reliability workflows that improve release hygiene and catch issues early.
- Develop and maintain automated test frameworks and CI/CD pipelines that gate broken code and keep staging environments clean.
- Strengthen logging, alerting, and monitoring to make failures fast and easy to diagnose.
- Work alongside software and DevOps engineers to reduce flakiness, prevent regressions, and keep BuildOS production-ready.
- Help build a blameless culture of learning, where quality issues lead to structural improvements, not just quick fixes.
- 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.
Location:
This role will be full-time, onsite in our NYC office (Empire State Building)
Eligibility:
Employment is restricted to U.S. Persons as defined by ITAR (22 CFR §120.15)
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.