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Senior Software Development Engineer in Test — LLM Evaluation & Automation, T3E

San Diego, United States of America💼 Full-time🗓 2026-08-03 → 2026-09-28

Core

Design and implement automated LLM evaluation harnesses to catch model regressions in generative AI features before they reach human evaluation or live rollout.

Role type

Senior SDET (LLM Evaluation & Automation)

Builds

Automated evaluation pipelines, reusable test libraries, and quality gate reporting for generative AI features.

Domain

Generative AI / Large Language Models / Test Automation

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Test automation, Python, LLM-as-a-judge evaluation, CI/CD integration, software engineering fundamentals, debugging and triage, rubric design, data pipeline fluency

Preferred skills

On-device tooling, generative model behavior (image/NLP), dataset curation, SQL, Xcode, fairness considerations

Technologies

Python, JSON, YAML, REST APIs, SQL, Jupyter, CI/CD systems

Responsibilities

Design and maintain LLM-as-a-judge evaluation harnesses integrated into CI/automation pipelines; Author and curate eval sets and rubrics; Run eval jobs at scale and triage results to distinguish regressions from noise; Plan and build test coverage from component tests to end-to-end user flows; Package eval tooling as reusable libraries; Define quality gates and reporting for model regressions; Collaborate with data scientists on regression detection across large output sets.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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