QA Engineer
Company websitegetclera.com (Clera, opens in new tab)
Base salary $180K to $200K
Employer-published annual base salary, USD. Advertised base range in San Francisco, CA
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- LocationSan Francisco, CA
- WorkplaceOn-site
- Status at last checkSource accepting applications when checked
- Last checked (2 min ago) · observed since
About this job
About the Role
Join an early-stage AI infrastructure company as its first QA engineer, owning quality across a Kubernetes-based GPU fleet management platform. You will test conversational and web interfaces alongside the backend systems that manage production clusters, helping ensure that user requests are handled accurately and safely.
What You'll Do
Test the conversational interface end to end, including command accuracy and the actions it performs on live clusters.
Build evaluations for AI agent behavior, checking answer quality, safe actions, and handling of ambiguous or invalid requests.
Develop end-to-end tests for the web interface and verify consistent behavior across interfaces.
Write Go integration tests for multicluster backend workflows, including installation, upgrades, and failover.
Create and tear down Kubernetes test clusters to validate controllers, operators, and custom resources across Kubernetes versions.
Verify alert delivery across monitoring and user interfaces, and ensure alerts trigger appropriately.
Gate releases in CI and turn bugs and incidents into regression tests.
What We're Looking For
At least 3 years of experience in QA, SDET, or test automation, building or delivering test suites and automation frameworks.
Strong Go experience writing integration tests or backend test automation, and experience building end-to-end web UI tests.
Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, React, RPC systems such as gRPC, CI/CD, and Linux fundamentals.
Experience testing infrastructure or distributed systems; familiarity with multicluster tooling, chaos engineering, or Kubernetes testing tools is useful.
Familiarity with Prometheus, Alertmanager, Grafana, Playwright, Slack apps, or GPU and bare-metal infrastructure is a plus.
Experience building test infrastructure from scratch or evaluating LLM-powered and conversational products is valued.
Compensation & Benefits
Base salary: $180,000 to $200,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is not available.
Location
On-site in San Francisco, California, United States.
Source: Clera on Ashby · View original posting (opens in new tab)
Pay in context
This role's base floor ($180,000) is above 50% of the 4,209 Software Engineering roles in California listed on this site; 172 others list the same floor. Their median floor is $176,500; the middle half runs from $149,200 to $204,000.
Only jobs on this site count, and each one publishes a base salary of $100,000 or more, so this compares six-figure jobs with each other, not with the whole market. Computed Nov 6, 2026.
This listingQA Engineer$180K to $200K
Founding Forward Deployed Engineer$180K to $250K
Head of Engineering$180K to $220K
Founding Applied AI Engineer$180K to $230K
Forward Deployed Engineer$180K to $220K
Founding Engineer$180K to $250K
Founding Product Engineer$180K to $250K
Chart as a table
| Role | Published base |
|---|---|
| QA Engineer (this listing) | $180K - $200K |
| Founding Forward Deployed Engineer | $180K - $250K |
| Head of Engineering | $180K - $220K |
| Founding Applied AI Engineer | $180K - $230K |
| Forward Deployed Engineer | $180K - $220K |
| Founding Engineer | $180K - $250K |
| Founding Product Engineer | $180K - $250K |
Observed changes
- Began meeting the published-salary criteria
- First observed on the employer's board
- Observed since
- Employer-stated posting date
- 2026-11-01
Where this pay comes from
Location as the employer wrote it: San Francisco
Base salary: $180,000 to $200,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is not available.
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- The pay is an annual base salary in US dollars with a minimum of at least $100,000.
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