Senior Quality & Automation Engineer

We live in a world where technology is rapidly changing the educational experiences of students and teachers everywhere, and we have the opportunity to shape how this change takes place. Kira's mission is to harness transformative AI technologies to make world-class personalized teaching and learning accessible to everyone. Kira is a rapidly growing startup backed by top-tier Venture Capital funds including New Enterprise Associates (NEA), Andrew Ng’s AI Fund and Primavera.

As a Senior Quality & Automation Engineer at Kira, you will own and elevate the quality bar across our platform. This is not a traditional QA role. We are looking for a senior, pragmatic engineer who ensures high product quality for teachers and students while modernizing how we approach testing and reliability, including thoughtful use of AI tools to accelerate test creation and coverage.

This is a full-time position that requires flexibility with work hours and availability outside of regular business hours. We have offices in San Francisco, CA and New York City, NY and we ask that employees work from one of the two locations and come into the office in-person 4 days a week.

What You’ll Do

- Ensure a high-quality, reliable experience for teachers and students across web and AI-driven workflows

- Define and evolve our overall quality strategy across frontend, backend, and AI services

- Design and implement scalable automated testing (e2e, integration, regression, performance)

- Evaluate and adopt modern AI-powered tools to accelerate test generation, maintenance, and coverage

- Partner closely with product and engineering to define clear acceptance criteria and prevent defects early

- Improve release confidence through better CI/CD integration, test observability, and failure diagnostics

- Establish pragmatic quality gates that increase reliability without slowing product velocity

- Lead post-incident quality improvements and...