# Principal SDET

What You'll Do As a Principal SDET, you will help set the technical direction for testing and quality in one of our engineering teams. This is not traditional QA: you'll build the test infrastructure and developer experience that let the team ship quickly and safely. You'll partner closely with software engineers, platform engineers, and SRE. This is a hands-on technical leadership role, through architecture, code, and the standards other teams build on. The teams Infra Network Cloud Observability MLOps Key Responsibilities Set the test strategy and architecture for your team. Build test frameworks for APIs, services, and end-to-end flows. Build test environments that reflect real GPU and cluster behaviour. Integrate testing into CI/CD so it's fast and reliable. Make testing easy for every engineer, and raise the quality bar across teams. Your Profile Extensive software engineering experience, focused on testing and quality infrastructure. A track record of technical leadership at staff or principal level, including setting direction across multiple teams and delivering complex, high-stakes systems. Strong hands-on engineering skills in Go. Experience testing gRPC and

- **Id**: 3988042
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/radiant-principal-sdet>
- **Role**: QA
- **Role family**: QA
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Gloucester, United Kingdom
- **Countries**: GB
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-09T19:44:04Z
- **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**: 4601
- **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

## Trust

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

## Requirements

- **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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