Software Development Engineer in Test - AI

Role Overview

Delos Data is hiring a Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) – AI to ensure the reliability and performance of its core AI infrastructure. You will build automation and stress-testing suites that help “break and harden” distributed AI systems across hardware and software boundaries.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain automated testing frameworks from the ground up for distributed AI training and inference workloads.
• Create complex test plans beyond unit tests, including end-to-end integration, stress testing, and hardware-software boundary validation.
• Collaborate with System Engineers to debug deep issues in distributed clusters using telemetry and profiling to identify bottlenecks.

Required Skills / Qualifications

• Strong proficiency in Python for automation and orchestration.
• Experience building/extending test automation frameworks for complex back-end systems.
• Ability to troubleshoot automated test failures in large-scale distributed systems and identify root causes.
• Experience with containerization (Docker/Kubernetes) and modern CI/CD tools (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or Jenkins).
• Education: Bachelor’s or Master’s in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.

Desired Skills

• Experience with Kubernetes and/or Terraform and/or Ansible for managing test-bed environments.
• Experience testing high-performance networking protocols or distributed file systems.
• Experience testing software that interacts directly with drivers or firmware.

Compensation

• Target base salary: $140,000–$200,000/year plus meaningful equity, benefits, and 401(k).