Software Development Engineer - Test

At Penguin Solutions (Nasdaq: PENG) - The AI Factory Platform Company - we’re building a team of innovators who thrive on collaboration, creativity, and the opportunity to help shape the future of AI. As part of the AI technology revolution, our teams design, build, deploy, and manage AI factories for enterprises, sovereign AI initiatives, and neocloud providers worldwide.

Headquartered in Silicon Valley, California, Penguin Solutions operates globally through a network of R&D, manufacturing, and sales locations. For nearly three decades, we have operated at the intersection of memory and AI/HPC infrastructure. That engineering expertise positions us to power the next generation of AI workloads, from training to inference and agentic AI at scale.

Penguin Solutions brings together differentiated infrastructure software, advanced memory, compute systems, end-to-end services, and industry-leading partner solutions in a full-stack AI factory platform designed to help customers deploy and scale AI workloads with speed and precision.

At Penguin Solutions, we value ideas over hierarchy and believe in servant leadership, where leaders enable teams to do their best work. We empower employees to take ownership, drive innovation, and grow through challenging work, continuous learning, and exposure to advanced AI tools and technologies. With flexibility where it matters and a strong focus on outcomes, Penguin Solutions is a place to do your best work, grow your career, and make a meaningful impact.

Job Overview

Penguin Computing is seeking an experienced AI QA / SDET Engineer to join our Software Engineering team. Penguin Computing’s Scyld Software products are used to deploy, provision, manage, and monitor some of the largest computational systems in the world. As we expand these platforms with AI/LLM-powered and agentic capabilities, this role will drive quality engineering across both our core infrastructure software and emerging AI solutions.

You will join our agile Software team and collaborate closely with Software Engineers, AI Engineers, Product Owners, Product Managers, and other teams across the organization to ensure our software meets the highest standards of quality, reliability, performance, and security.

The ideal candidate combines a strong foundation in software testing and automation with hands-on knowledge of LLM evaluation, AI agent testing, AI security testing, and modern AI quality methodologies. You will help define testing strategies, build scalable automation and AI evaluation frameworks, and continuously improve our testing processes and tools.

This role requires strong technical problem-solving skills, initiative, and the ability to work with a high degree of independence. You will have the opportunity to shape our evolving AI quality engineering practice and ensure that both traditional software and AI-powered capabilities are reliable, secure, measurable, and production-ready.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Define and execute end-to-end QA strategy for software, AI/LLM features, and AI agents.
• Design and maintain scalable test automation frameworks covering API, UI, integration, regression, performance, and infrastructure testing.
• Build LLM/AI evaluation frameworks and automated evaluation pipelines integrated with CI/CD.
• Define evaluation datasets, test scenarios, golden datasets, and quality benchmarks for AI features.
• Evaluate LLM outputs for correctness, relevance, groundedness, hallucination, consistency, and task completion.
• Implement automated evaluation methodologies including LLM-as-a-Judge, deterministic checks, model-based grading, and human evaluation.
• Test AI agents and agentic workflows including reasoning, tool/function calling, multi-step execution, state management, error handling, and recovery.
• Validate RAG pipelines, including retrieval quality, context relevance, grounding, citation accuracy, and response quality.
• Perform adversarial and security testing of AI systems, including prompt injection, jailbreaks, data leakage, unsafe tool execution, excessive agency, and access-control violations.
• Apply AI security methodologies such as OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications and use appropriate AI red-teaming/security testing tools.
• Build automated regression suites to identify behavioral and quality degradation across prompt, model, agent, and application changes.
• Define AI quality metrics, dashboards, release gates, and acceptance criteria.
• Test AI systems across different models and configurations to validate reliability and model-independent behavior.
• Replicate customer environments through simulated data and usage patterns for realistic end-to-end testing.
• Partner with Software Engineering, AI Engineering, Product, and Architecture teams to embed quality engineering early in the SDLC.
• Troubleshoot complex issues across Linux, Kubernetes, networking, infrastructure, and AI application layers.

AI QA Methodologies & Tools

Experience with one or more of the following is highly desirable:

• LLM Evaluation: LLM-as-a-Judge, golden datasets, pairwise evaluation, rubric-based scoring, human-in-the-loop evaluation
• Evaluation Frameworks: DeepEval, Ragas, Promptfoo, LangSmith, OpenAI Evals or equivalent
• Agent Testing: tool/function-call validation, trajectory evaluation, task-completion testing, multi-agent workflow testing
• RAG Evaluation: retrieval precision/recall, context relevance, faithfulness/groundedness, answer correctness
• AI Security: prompt injection, jailbreak testing, data-exfiltration testing, privilege/access-control testing, adversarial testing
• Security Frameworks/Tools: OWASP LLM guidance, Garak, PyRIT, Promptfoo or equivalent AI red-teaming tools
• Observability: tracing and evaluation of prompts, model responses, tool calls, agent decisions, latency, token usage, and failures

Qualifications

• Degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• 6-8 years of experience in QA, SDET, software engineering, or test automation.
• Strong understanding of QA methodologies, test architecture, and software development lifecycle.
• Strong coding/scripting skills in Python; Bash, JavaScript, or C experience is beneficial.
• Experience building automation frameworks and integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong Linux command-line, debugging, and troubleshooting skills.
• Experience with API, functional, integration, regression, performance, and security testing.
• Experience with Kubernetes, containers, and virtualization.
• Hands-on exposure to LLMs, Generative AI applications, RAG, AI agents or Agentic AI Platforms.
• Understanding of LLM-specific failure modes including hallucination, non-determinism, prompt injection, and unsafe agent behavior.
• Experience with Selenium, Playwright, PyTest, or similar testing frameworks.
• Knowledge of HPC/AI infrastructure, networking, GPUs, or distributed systems is a plus.

What Success Looks Like

Build a modern quality engineering practice where traditional software testing and AI evaluation come together, enabling us to ship infrastructure software and AI agents that are reliable, measurable, secure, and safe to operate in production.

Location

Bangalore

Travel

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