Quality & Reliability Engineer

About the Company

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 American manufacturing is broken—burdened by inefficiency, bureaucracy, and outdated processes.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

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.