Quality Engineer

Cranium; New Jersey; Remote; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary & equity

Health insurance

Flexible time off

401(k)

Team culture: Craniacs

Job summary

Cranium is seeking a Quality Engineer to embed on engineering squads in our NJ/remote team, helping to shape test strategy, tooling, and automation across Python AI services, .NET backends, and React frontends. You will be an engineer first, not just a tester, contributing to feature delivery and building the tooling that keeps quality high as we move fast.

You will own API testing, CI/CD integration, and risk communication while validating AI-powered features and driving improvements to our

Qualifications

• Experience testing APIs across microservices and integration points.
• Hands-on with automated testing tooling and test suites.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and deployment workflows.

Responsibilities

• Embed on engineering squads and contribute to feature delivery from planning to release.
• Build and maintain tooling that keeps quality high while accelerating velocity.
• Validate AI-powered features (LLM-based scoring, security workflows, code analysis).
• Identify gaps in automated test strategy and propose practical solutions.
• Triage defects and drive them to resolution, communicating risks clearly.

Skills

Python

.NET

React

API testing

CI/CD

QA mindset

Tools

Postman

Job description

01 Careers at Cranium · Engineering · Quality

Quality Engineer

An engineer first, not a tester. Embed on a squad, ship features, and build the tooling that keeps quality high while we movefast.

REMOTE · NEW JERSEY FULL TIME EMBEDDED ON ENGINEERING TEAMS

02 Why we're hiring

Our vision is to secure the AIrevolution.

Cranium secures the AI revolution through an award-winning AI Security and AI Governance platform that supports organizations of all sizes across their entire AI supply chain - from AI entry through runtime. The platform helps teams identify, manage and mitigate AI-related risks to ensure security, compliance and responsible innovation. We're powered by "Craniacs": a team committed to redefining the standard for AIexcellence.

03 About the role

What you'll do.

Quality Engineers at Cranium test and build solutions to maintain our compliance and security toolset — the platform securing the AI revolution. You'll work across our full stack: Python-based AI science services that integrate with large language models, .NET backend APIs that orchestrate security workflows, and React/TypeScript frontends that put powerful tools in our users'hands.

This is a hands-on, embedded role. You're an engineer first, not just a "tester" — you'll sit on engineering teams, contribute directly to feature delivery, and be in the codebase building the tooling that keeps quality high as we movefast.

Embed on engineering teams and support full-stack feature delivery from planning throughrelease.

Validate AI-powered features including LLM-based compliance scoring, vulnerability assessment and code analysisservices.

Identify gaps in our automated test strategy and propose practicalsolutions.

Triage and investigate defects, driving them toresolution.

Communicate risks clearly — surface what matters, when itmatters.

04 What we look for

What you'll bring.

Nice to have

API testing across RESTfulservices.

CI/CD pipelines, and integrating test suites into automated deploymentworkflows.

Our quality philosophy

Quality Engineering at Cranium is driven by whole-team ownership of quality. Quality Engineers provide the tools, insight and support that enable every engineer to deliver with confidence - bringing a diverse skillset, deep knowledge of software development, and the communication skills to surface issues and risks before they reach production. We're not a QA gate. We're building a quality culture, and Quality Engineers play a pivotal role in designing quality into our systems from thestart.

05 What we offer

Benefits built to support you.

• A chance to make a real contribution to the future of AI, alongside impossibly talented people who share the mission. Our biggest asset is inclusion - a diverse community is how wesucceed.
• Competitive salary & equity Earn a competitive salary and own a real stake in Cranium through equity.
• Market-leading health, dental and vision coverage for you and yourdependents.
• Flexible time off & family leave A flexible time-off policy, plus paid parental and family leave when you needit.
• An individual learning budget - lifelong learning is one of our values, not a perk.
• A 401(k) program to help you save for the future, set up whenever you're ready.
• The Craniacs A multidisciplinary team that plays nice, ships hard and has a lot of fun doingit.

06 Ready when you are

Come build it withus.