# Founding SDET

What You'll Do As our Founding SDET, you will build Radiant's test infrastructure and developer experience from the ground up. This is not traditional QA: you'll write the code, tools, and frameworks that let our engineers ship with confidence. You'll work closely with the Cloud team and engineers across Radiant, and shape how the whole engineering organisation tests. Key Responsibilities Build test infrastructure in Go. Validate gRPC and REST APIs, and build end-to-end tests. Set up test management and quality dashboards. Integrate testing into CI/CD. Shape testing practices across the engineering team. Your Profile 6-7+ years in software engineering or SDET roles. Strong Go. Experience testing gRPC and REST APIs. Experience building end-to-end test frameworks from scratch. Experience with test management tools such as TestRail. What You Bring Builder's mindset: Happy to start from a blank page and set the standard. Engineering quality: Write clean, tested, maintainable code, and review others' work with care. Ownership: Take features from design through production, and stay accountable for how they run. Pragmatism: Ship what matters, simply, and improve it from real-

- **Id**: 3988037
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/radiant-founding-sdet>
- **Role**: QA
- **Role family**: QA
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Gloucester, United Kingdom
- **Countries**: GB
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 6
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-09T20:00:19Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-09
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-10T03:32:08Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3777
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Annual leave, Health insurance
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: MLOps, AI Compute & Inference

## Company

- **Id**: 8822
- **Name**: Radiant
- **Domain**: radiant.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/radiant>
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 80
- **Open postings**: 5
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.8
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 49
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

## Technologies

- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **Go** — Optional: no
- **gRPC** — Optional: no
- **Rest API** — Optional: no
- **TestRail** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 6
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-09T22:19:01Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 90
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.903
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 49
- **Reasons**: conf:3, velocity, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

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