QA Survey Technician

Tensec; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work from home options

Innovative work environment

Job summary

A leading geospatial technology company is seeking a QA Survey Technician in San Francisco. This role involves ensuring platform accuracy through hands-on validation against real-world datasets. Ideal candidates will have surveying or CAD experience and a keen eye for identifying errors. Responsibilities include providing structured feedback, building QA workflows, and creating tutorials. Join a transformative team focused on enhancing civil infrastructure design with AI-powered tools.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with surveying, drafting, or CAD software.
• Expert knowledge of feature extraction and geometry workflows.
• Sharp eye for detail and able to spot errors in data.

Responsibilities

• QA new features against real-world datasets.
• Identify extraction errors and workflow issues before they reach customers.
• Provide structured feedback to engineering and product teams.
• Create screen recordings and walkthroughs for tutorials and demos.
• Build QA checklists and testing workflows.
• Act as an authority on how surveyors and engineers work.

Skills

Surveying experience

CAD (AutoCAD, Civil 3D, MicroStation)

Attention to detail

Technical workflow explanation

Job description

The role:

At Mach9, QA Survey Technicians are the domain experts who ensure our platform works the way real surveyors and engineers expect it to. You'll work directly with product and engineering to validate feature extraction accuracy, stress-test new workflows against real-world datasets, and make sure what we ship reflects how the industry actually works.

This role is ideal for someone with hands-on surveying or CAD experience who wants to shape software the whole industry will use -- and can tell us clearly when it's wrong.

You’ll sit at the intersection of product, engineering, and marketing -- catching what engineers miss, providing structured feedback, and helping us demonstrate our capabilities to customers in plain, credible language.

Where you will make an impact:

• QA new features against real-world LiDAR and mobile mapping datasets

• Identify extraction errors, edge cases, and workflow friction before they reach customers

• Provide structured, specific feedback to engineering and product teams

• Create screen recordings and narrated walkthroughs for tutorials, marketing, and demos

• Build repeatable QA checklists and testing workflows

• Act as the in-house authority on how surveyors and engineers actually work

What you bring:

• Hands-on experience with surveying, drafting, or CAD (AutoCAD, Civil 3D, MicroStation, or similar)

• Expert knowledge of feature extraction, geometry, and infrastructure workflows

• Sharp eye for detail -- you notice when a curb line is off or a classification is wrong

• Comfort explaining technical workflows

• Able to work onsite in San Francisco

About Mach9

Mach9 is transforming civil infrastructure design with AI-powered geospatial tools. Our platform accelerates the creation of engineering deliverables from raw data, cutting manual drafting time by 96×. Trusted by global leaders in engineering and construction, we’re backed by Y Combinator, Quiet Capital, and top founders and executives from Cruise, Autodesk, Adobe, and DoorDash.

We believe the needs of a startup benefit from an in-person culture. The team works out of our office in SoMa, with the flexibility to work from home when needed.