layiq

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LAYIQ - Director, Software Quality Engineering at d-Matrix

Define the quality strategy, technical roadmap, and test architecture across firmware, compiler, runtime, and inference serving
Build reusable test frameworks and automated functional, integration, and end-to-end coverage, with deliberate choices about what runs on available hardware and when
Develop continuous soak testing to assess long-run stability and produce useful failure evidence
Establish numerical comparison and tolerance policies with engineering owners, and detect performance regressions against reliable baselines
Define measurable QA readiness criteria and quality gates. Qualify the exact release candidate, including targeted customer fixes, and communicate results, gaps, and risks clearly
Improve defect triage and turn lessons from customer-reported defects into better coverage and engineering practices
Evaluate and adopt AI-assisted test generation, triage, and failure clustering where they deliver measurable benefits
Establish and maintain processes for open-source and proprietary software license compliance, including inbound and outbound obligations, in partnership with Legal
Coordinate implementation and ongoing review of the company's AI use policy with legal, security, and engineering leadership
Coach and develop the software quality engineering team
Scope Clarification
This role does not include: Release assembly and maintenance
Building a large manual testing organization or outsourcing testing to vendors as the core strategy
Post-silicon hardware validation or silicon bring-up
Writing unit tests on behalf of development teams
First-Year Objectives (proposed)
Establish a baseline of human effort in test preparation, execution, triage, and maintenance. Measurably reduce repetitive work on comparable workloads while preserving or improving coverage and defect detection
Evaluate AI-assisted testing on representative work and demonstrate gains in time to actionable results or engineering effort, including human review and maintenance costs.
Put documented numerical-tolerance policies and performance-regression gates into use with engineering owners so that agreed violations block progression and authorized exceptions are recorded
Deliver an actionable quality roadmap, clear operating ownership, and shared knowledge so that critical workflows do not depend on any one person.
Specific targets and measurement windows will be agreed after the baseline is established

Director, Software Quality Engineering

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