Head of Quality Engineering (QA)

ABOUT SIFT

Sift is the data infrastructure platform for hardware engineering teams. Sift turns high-frequency telemetry into engineering insights for mission-critical systems. Teams use Sift to build and operate rockets, satellites, autonomous vehicles, energy systems, defense platforms, and more.

Founded by former SpaceX engineers who built the tools behind Dragon and Starlink, Sift is building the data infrastructure to herald the AI era for physical systems.

THE ROLE

Quality is a top priority for Sift, and we are building a formal QA discipline to match the standard our customers expect. This is our first dedicated quality leadership hire, and the person in this seat will own it end to end: the practices, the team, the tooling, and the accountability for what ships.

You will define how Sift tests its products across web, desktop, and backend systems. You will build and lead a team that scales primarily through external QA vendors, supported over time by a small internal core. You will partner closely with product, design, and engineering to make quality a property of how we work rather than a step at the end. And you will be the single person who stakes their reputation on the quality of our releases.

This is a builder's role with significant ambiguity. You will set strategy, stand up process from a near-blank slate, and decide where to apply manual testing, where to apply AI, and where to invest in automation.

WHAT YOU WILL DO

- Own Sift's overall quality strategy and serve as the accountable owner for release quality sign-off across all customer-facing products.

- Build and lead the QA function, scaling to roughly 30 people. The majority will be outsourced testers managed through external vendors; internal headcount will start at zero and may grow to a small core of up to ten over time.

- Select, onboard, and manage external QA vendor teams (for example, Keywords-style partners), holding them to clear quality bars, throughput expectations,...