Test and Quality Engineering Lead

Seattle, WA or Sunnyvale, CA or San Diego, CA

At RADAR, we're transforming the way the world thinks about physical retail. RADAR has raised over $104M from top investors, retailers, and strategics and works with some of the world's retail brands including American Eagle and Gap. We’re building the future of in-store experience where every product and every person can be precisely located in real time.

Our platform combines RFID and AI to unlock hyper-accurate product visibility and automation m real-time inventory tracking to seamless checkout experiences, our technology empowers some of the world’s largest retailers to streamline operations, reduce loss, and elevate both employee and customer experiences.

We’re a fast-growing, mission-driven startup where bold ideas, collaboration, and impact are at the core of everything we do. Join us as we reshape the physical world with digital precision, starting with retail and expanding far beyond!

• Mission-Driven:
  We're transforming retail with cutting-edge technology and building something that truly matters.
• Collaborative Team:
  We thrive on curiosity, shared goals, and solving complex problems together.
• High Impact:
  You’ll make meaningful contributions from day one and help shape the future of our product and company.
• Clear Communication:
  We value honesty, humility, and respectful dialogue—everyone’s voice matters.
• Balanced Lives:
  We work hard, but not at the expense of well-being. We respect time, boundaries, and life outside of work.
• Diverse Perspectives:
  We believe better ideas come from diverse backgrounds, experiences, and viewpoints.
• Empathy-Driven Design:
  We build with deep respect for our end users, listening closely to their feedback and needs.

We are seeking an experienced Test and Quality Engineering Lead to drive our quality culture and testing infrastructure across the organization. This is a high-impact individual contributor role focused on shaping how engineering teams think about quality, building scalable test infrastructure, and establishing practices that ensure reliability at massive scale. You'll work across a complex distributed system processing over 100 billion events per day spanning cloud, edge compute, and mobile devices.

This is an engineering leadership position without management responsibilities. You'll influence through expertise, coaching, and technical excellence by helping teams across the organization build quality into their development processes rather than testing it afterward. Your success will be measured by the growth and maturity of quality practices across engineering teams, not by how much you personally test.

• Drive and shape a culture of quality and testing across engineering teams through coaching and technical leadership
• Design and build scalable test infrastructure for systems processing 100+ billion events per day
• Coach teams to design for testability and observability from the beginning
• Develop testing frameworks, tooling, and automated pipelines that engineers can easily adopt
• Participate in design reviews with focus on testability and observability
• Build comprehensive test reporting and analytics to provide visibility into quality metrics
• Define quality KPIs and metrics that drive meaningful improvements across the organization

• You have 7+ years of experience in software engineering with significant focus on testing and quality
• You have proven experience building test infrastructure and frameworks for large-scale distributed systems
• You have a strong background in testing systems that process massive data volumes (billions+ of events)
• You have demonstrated ability to influence engineering culture and drive organizational change without formal authority
• You have deep understanding of testing methodologies including unit, integration, end-to-end, performance, and chaos testing
• You have experience coaching and mentoring engineers on testing and quality practices
• You have strong understanding of software design principles and how they impact testability
• You have excellent communication skills with ability to advocate for quality at all levels of the…