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 American manufacturing is broken—burdened by inefficiency, bureaucracy, and outdated processes.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

We’re hiring a Quality & Reliability Engineer to level up how we test, release, and operate software ’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.

• 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 Dev Ops engineers to reduce flakiness, prevent regressions, and keep Build
  
  OS 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.

• 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 (Git Hub Actions, Git Lab, Circle
  
  CI, etc.).
• Experience with modern build and deployment tooling (e.g., Terraform, Docker, NixOS, Circle
  
  CI)
• Strong programming comfort in Type Script, 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.

• 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.

$100,000 — $150,000 USD

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.

This role is fully in-person at our NYC office.

Employment is restricted to U.S. Persons as defined by ITAR (22 CFR §120.15).

• 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.