OC Tanner

Software Engineer in Test - AI

OC Tanner$90K — $120K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 3+ years of experience in software testing, quality engineering, test automation, or software development.
  • Hands-on experience with Python, Selenium, and Playwright for automated testing.
  • Proficient in API testing and distributed system architectures.
  • Experience in testing AI applications using LLMs and related technologies.
  • Skilled in evaluating AI-generated outputs against quality benchmarks.
  • Experience writing tests for RAG systems focused on accuracy and consistency.
  • Strong knowledge of SQL and NoSQL databases, including relational and vector databases.

Responsibilities

  • Become a Subject Matter Expert on the AI platform, understanding system interactions and data flows.
  • Design and maintain automated test frameworks for various AI services and applications.
  • Develop evaluation suites to measure AI model behavior pre-release.
  • Execute tests for AI systems covering functional, integration, and performance aspects.
  • Define metrics and criteria for assessing AI-generated outputs.
  • Validate AI controls and practices that ensure customer trust and safety.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to enforce testing strategies and quality influence.

Benefits

  • Collaborative work environment fostering team contribution.
  • Opportunity to become a Subject Matter Expert in AI and its testing methodologies.
  • Exposure to cutting-edge AI technologies and practices.
  • Potential for career growth within a rapidly evolving tech landscape.
  • Flexibility in adapting testing approaches to new AI challenges.
Full Job Description
Location: Salt Lake City, UT In this role, you will build automation, evaluate AI-driven behavior, validate responsible AI controls, and identify risks early so our products are reliable, scalable, production-ready, and trusted by millions of users. Key Responsibilities - Become a Subject Matter Expert on the AI platform and possess a deep understanding of system interactions, upstream/downstream dependencies, and data flows. - Design, develop, and maintain automated test frameworks for AI platform services, APIs, agents, prompt-based workflows, and RAG-enabled applications. - Develop automated AI evaluation suites and regression benchmarks that continuously measure model behavior and detect quality degradation before release. - Build and execute functional, integration, end-to-end, regression, performance, and reliability tests for AI-driven systems and services. - Define evaluation strategies, quality metrics, and acceptance criteria for AI-generated outputs, including accuracy, relevance, consistency, grounding, safety, and business value. - Validate responsible AI controls, permissions, guardrails, data handling practices, and business rules that protect customer trust. - Partner with Engineering, Product, and Support throughout the software lifecycle to drive risk-based testing strategies, influence quality to ensure production readiness. - Integrate automated testing, AI evaluations, and release validation into CI/CD pipelines. - Investigate, triage, and communicate defects, quality issues, and production incidents, driving root cause analysis and continuous improvement. - Utilize observability tools, logs, metrics, and traces to investigate production issues and perform root cause analysis. - Establish and promote testing standards, automation patterns, and AI quality practices that improve reliability and delivery speed. Required Qualifications - 3+ years of experience in software testing, quality engineering, test automation, or software development. - Hands-on experience developing automated tests, testing tools, or quality frameworks using Python, Selenium and Playwright. - Experience testing APIs, microservices, distributed systems, backend services, or event-driven architectures. - Strong experience testing AI-enabled applications using technologies such as LLMs, LangChain, LangGraph, or similar platforms. - Hands-on experience evaluating AI-generated outputs using datasets, scoring rubrics, golden test sets, benchmarking frameworks, or automated quality checks. - Experience testing RAG systems, including retrieval quality, embeddings, grounding, citations, context accuracy, and streaming responses. - Experience working with SQL and NoSQL technologies, including relational, document, key-value, or vector databases. - Experience integrating automated testing into CI/CD pipelines and modern software delivery practices. - Experience investigating production issues and using incident and defect data to improve system quality and reliability. - Strong understanding of test automation, performance testing, risk-based testing, release validation, and responsible AI principles. - Excellent collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to clearly articulate quality risks and acceptance criteria. Preferred Qualifications - Experience with AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, and cloud-native architectures. - Experience testing event-driven systems using Kafka or similar messaging platforms. - Familiarity with application security testing and OWASP Top 10 principles. - Proficiency in Python and at least one additional programming language such as Java, Ruby, or Go. - Experience with reliability engineering practices, including observability, production readiness reviews, incident analysis, SLOs, and continuous improvement. - Experience conducting performance, load, stress, scalability, or resilience testing.

About OC Tanner

O.C. Tanner is a global employee recognition and corporate gifting company. Founded in 1927, the company is headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah, and has offices in Canada, the United Kingdom, and Australia. O.C. Tanner provides employee recognition programs, service awards, and incentive programs to businesses worldwide. The company has been recognized for its workplace culture and has been named one of the best places to work in the United States by the Great Place to Work Institute.
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