Senior Staff SDET: AI-Driven Quality Architect — Equity

Hims & Hers; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 225,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Remote-friendly work

Job summary

Hims & Hers is seeking a Senior Staff SDET to own quality architecture and AI-driven testing across critical systems. This hands-on technical leadership role shapes testing strategy, builds automation platforms, and mentors senior engineers, with a focus on trustworthy AI in testing and scalable quality practices.

You will define standards, drive architectural improvements, and partner with engineering and product leadership to ensure reliable, performant software releases.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of hands-on experience in quality engineering or SDET roles, including experience architecting quality strategy and automation platforms across multiple teams.
• Proven track record designing and scaling test automation frameworks across the full stack — frontend web, mobile, and backend/API (e.g., Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, Appium, Postman, or similar).
• Deep proficiency in one or more programming languages (e.g., JavaScript, TypeScript, Kotlin) used to build and maintain shared automation frameworks and tooling. You write production-quality code, not just test scripts.
• Hands-on experience applying AI to testing — LLM-assisted test generation, agent-based workflows, intelligent test selection, or self-healing automation — with informed opinions about where it delivers and where it disappoints.
• Demonstrated ability to define quality architecture and standards that scale across many teams, including shared quality platforms and test infrastructure.
• Strong grasp of modern development and delivery practices (agile/lean, DevOps, shift-left testing, TDD) and experience embedding quality gates into CI/CD systems (e.g., GitHub Actions, CircleCI, Jenkins).
• Experience mentoring and developing senior quality engineers and senior technical leaders, with a track record of raising the technical bar across a group or organization.
• History of leading post-incidents and root cause analysis that drives architectural and process change.
• Excellent judgment on trade-offs between short-term delivery and long-term system resilience and maintainability.
• Strong executive communication skills, with the ability to influence engineering and product leadership on quality strategy, risk, and investment.
• Experience with performance and load testing at scale.

Responsibilities

• Own quality architecture for our most critical systems and initiatives, defining long-term quality strategy aligned with business and product goals.
• Design shared quality platforms, automation frameworks, and test infrastructure that are adopted across multiple teams.
• Establish quality patterns and guardrails that scale across teams, eliminating duplicated, brittle, or low-signal testing approaches through platform-level solutions.
• Anticipate systemic quality and reliability risks and drive preventative architectural solutions before they impact customers.
• Set the standard for what "great" looks like in quality engineering at scale.
• Define and drive our strategy for AI-assisted testing — autonomous test generation, intelligent test selection, agent-based failure triage, and self-healing automation.
• Build the guardrails that make AI-driven testing trustworthy: knowing when a self-healing agent is masking a real regression versus absorbing harmless drift.
• Orchestrate AI agents as part of the CI/CD decision pipeline, turning raw test signal into release confidence.
• Own quality for our AI-powered product features — designing eval suites, golden datasets, LLM-as-judge scorers, and statistical approaches for non-deterministic behavior.
• Evaluate emerging AI testing tooling with real rigor, and be honest about what doesn't work.
• Establish hiring standards, coaching, and talent development.
• Champion customer-centric quality decisions, ensuring technical trade-offs reflect real user needs.

Skills

Quality architecture

Automation frameworks

Frontend/Backend testing

JS/TS/Kotlin

AI in testing

CI/CD testing

Mentoring

Post-incident analysis

Quality metrics

Performance testing

Executive communication

Tools

Playwright

Cypress

Selenium

Appium

Postman

GitHub Actions

CircleCI

Jenkins

Job description

Hims & Hers is seeking a Senior Staff SDET to own quality architecture and AI-driven testing across critical systems. This hands-on technical leadership role shapes testing strategy, builds automation platforms, and mentors senior engineers, with a focus on trustworthy AI in testing and scalable quality practices.

You will define standards, drive architectural improvements, and partner with engineering and product leadership to ensure reliable, performant software releases.