Software Development Engineer in Test

About the role

About Plaud Inc.

Plaud is building the real-world AI interface for professionals to amplify intelligence, elevate productivity and performance, loved by over 3,000,000 users worldwide since 2023. With a mission to amplify human intelligence, Plaud captures, structures, and compounds the intelligence generated in conversations — so humans can think better, decide faster, and execute with clarity.

Plaud Inc. is a Delaware-incorporated, San Francisco-based company. With GDPR, SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA, and EN 18031 compliance, Plaud is committed to the highest standards of data security and privacy protection.

To learn more about Plaud, please visit https://www.plaud.ai and follow along on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/plaud_official/, X https://twitter.com/PLAUDAI, Facebook https://www.facebook.com/plaudai, LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/plaudai/, and YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@PLAUDAI.

Why You Should Join Us

Plaud is building the next generation intelligence infrastructure and interfaces to capture, extract, and utilize intelligence from what people say, hear, see, and think.

- Plaud is a bootstrapped, skyrocketing, profitable company with a $300M revenue run rate achieved in just three years.

- Define the next-gen paradigm for human-AI interaction.

- Gain exposure to cutting-edge AI for Pro tools and play a direct role in our global expansion.

- Work with passionate teammates who value innovation, collaboration, and customer success.

- Grow your career in a culture that champions continuous learning and fast career development.

- Market-competitive compensation, global exposure, and a vibrant, creativity-fueled work atmosphere.

What you will do

- Server-Side & Architecture QA Full-Lifecycle Testing: Independently execute functional, performance, stability, and compatibility testing for core server modules (e.g., user management, billing). Migration Safeguarding: Lead API regression, data-consistency checks, and service-degradation drills during architecture upgrades; maintain the regression matrix

- AI System & Algorithm Evaluation AI Search & Recs: Own the evaluation strategy for Plaud 4.0 recommendation/search systems; design quality gates for Retrieval/Memory systems, long-tail recall, and embedding drift

- AI Infra & Model Release: Drive testing for Context OS through capacity assessment and chaos drills; build automated quality gates (smoke, regression, canary) for model releases. AI Agent Testing: Formulate automated evaluation for AI Agents, covering multi-turn dialogue, tool calling, and error recovery.

- Test Engineering & Automation Tool Development: Independently develop and roll out custom automated testing tools based on business needs. Scripting & CI/CD: Rapidly produce automation/performance scripts using existing frameworks and integrate Agent testing pipelines into CI/CD.

Skills, qualifications and experience we look for