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title: 'QA Lead at Giga'
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# QA Lead at Giga

- **Company:** Giga
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Compensation:** $160k–$230k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-02-20
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-12
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/gigaml/834fc9bf-fd1f-43f5-9bbe-1e1404d8b0e8

## Job description

## About Giga

Giga has recently raised a $61M Series A and has several paying customers, including DoorDash. We’re building the next generation of customer experience — real-time AI agents that can understand emotion, resolve issues instantly, and scale across the world’s largest enterprises. It’s an exciting inflection point for the company. While we have been successful, we have larger ambitions. Our goal is to become the go-to AI platform for all enterprise automation, powered by our voice superintelligence. To achieve this, we need more great engineers. The work affects millions of people every day and our engineers have autonomy and make true impact. This opportunity is unique because we have brilliant founders, have found commercial success, and see a clear path to becoming a generational company. Some further info about us:

- [Voice AI startup Giga raises $61M Series A](https://fortune.com/2025/11/05/voice-ai-giga-raise-61-million-customer-service-series-a/)
- [DoorDash and Giga Partnership](https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7391576181009018883/)

Giga builds AI agents trusted by the largest B2C companies in the world. Industry leaders like DoorDash trust Giga with their most complex support and operations workflows across voice, chat, and email. If being a part of this resonates with you, please apply!

## The Role

We're looking for a QA lead to own quality across our AI agent platform and run a distributed testing team. You'll define what "ready to ship" looks like, build the test strategies and processes from the ground up, and be the person in SF who keeps quality on track as the team scales. This is a hands-on QA role. You'll write test plans, execute testing, and manage a team of offshore QA testers. You'll work closely with engineering and product to understand what's being built, identify where things can break, and make sure nothing ships until it's been thoroughly validated. If you've run QA for a fast-moving product team and know how to keep quality high without slowing everything down, this is your role.

## What You'll Work On

A few examples of what this role looks like day-to-day:

- Test strategy and planning: Defining test plans, acceptance criteria, and coverage matrices for new features across our voice, chat, and email AI agents
- AI agent validation: Testing agent conversations for accuracy, tone, hallucinations, and edge cases — figuring out how to systematically QA outputs that are different every time
- Release management: Owning the QA gate for releases, coordinating test cycles, managing regression suites, and signing off on production readiness
- Team management: Running a distributed QA team across SF and offshore locations — assigning work, reviewing results, setting standards, and keeping the team aligned across time zones
- Bug triage and reporting: Classifying, prioritizing, and clearly documenting defects so engineering can reproduce and fix issues efficiently
- Process design: Building the QA processes, workflows, and documentation that let us scale testing as the product and team grow

As a senior QA lead, you'll be the core owner of ensuring quality releases in the company. You'll have real influence over release cadence, quality standards, and how QA fits into the development lifecycle.

You Might Be a Fit If You

- Have 7+ years of experience in QA or quality assurance, with a track record of leading test efforts for complex products
- Have managed or led distributed QA teams, ideally across time zones, and know how to keep offshore testers productive, motivated, and aligned with the SF engineering team
- Are excellent at test planning — you can look at a feature, think through the edge cases, and build a test strategy that catches the things engineers miss
- Have experience testing conversational AI, voice systems, chatbots, or other non-deterministic products where "correct" isn't always a single answer
- Are a clear, organized communicator — your bug reports are detailed, your test plans are thorough, and your status updates give leadership confidence
- Can push back on engineering when something isn't ready to ship, but also know when good enough is good enough for the stage the company is at
- Are comfortable being the person who builds the QA function from scratch — defining the processes, picking the tools, and setting the bar for quality
- Are excited about AI and want to figure out what quality assurance looks like for products that didn't exist five years ago

## Perks & Benefits

- Catered lunch daily
- Dinner stipend
- $150/month wellness benefit (gym, fitness classes, mental health)
- 401(k) plan
- Commuter benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage

Giga is an equal opportunity employer. We're committed to providing equal employment opportunities regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

## About Giga

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Giga builds enterprise AI voice agents that handle complex customer interactions with unmatched speed and scale, giving time back to humanity.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A, ~$61M raised in August 2025 led by Redpoint)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2023 (some sources list 2024; conflicting reports)
- **Founders**: Esha Dinne (CTO) and Varun Vummadi (Co-Founder)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Enterprise AI / Customer Support Automation / Software Development
- **Target customers**: B2B – large enterprises (e.g., DoorDash)
- **Mission**: “To save people time” – reprogram the world’s largest companies using AI, reaching every human on the planet.

## Products & Services
- **[AI Voice Agents]**: Enterprise-grade AI support agents that handle complex customer interactions with human-like intelligence, available as a SaaS platform or on-premise deployment.
- **[Guardrails]**: Built-in hallucination checks to ensure accuracy, with automatic fallback to human support when needed.
- **[Progressive Automation]**: Gradual automation of support workflows with performance metrics to identify automation opportunities.
- **[Insights]**: AI-powered analytics that detect customer churn drivers and highlight improvement areas.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total funding of **$64.7M** (Seed rounds totaling ~$3.7M, plus Series A of $61M in August 2025); estimated annual revenue of **$1M** (LinkedIn data)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Nexus Venture Partners (Seed lead), Eight Capital, Redpoint (Series A lead), Y Combinator (Summer 2023 batch)
- **Growth Signals**: Headcount grew **+537.5% YoY** to 50 employees; customer win with DoorDash; 40+ open positions across engineering, sales, and operations; LinkedIn followers grew **+411.7% YoY** to over 30,000.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Speed and scale**: Claims to ship faster than competitors while maintaining enterprise-grade reliability.
- **Human-like AI**: Pioneering voice AI that has “never been perfected in tech history” – a technically challenging moat.
- **Customer obsession**: Deep focus on solving real customer problems, evidenced by high-profile enterprise adoption.
- **On-premise option**: Offers secure on-premise LLM deployment for data-sensitive enterprises, a differentiator vs. pure cloud solutions.

## Strategic Focus
- Scale enterprise voice AI across the world’s largest companies.
- Continue rapid hiring (especially in engineering, sales, and strategy/operations).
- Push the boundaries of reasoning AI for voice interactions.
- Build a culture of speed, ownership, and craft excellence.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Values include customer obsession, operating with speed, deep care for craft, pushing boundaries, and taking ownership. Employees have high agency and are encouraged to experiment.
- **Work environment**: On-site in San Francisco (2 offices); typical time on-site is “none” but employees work from physical offices (hybrid flexibility implied).
- **Perks**: Full medical, dental, and vision coverage; Equinox gym membership; in-office ping-pong and pool table; on-demand snacks, coffee, and DoorDash credits; after-hours transportation reimbursement.
- **Engineering culture**: Strong emphasis on quality, detail, and shipping fast. 18 technical team members (36% of workforce). Open roles include Staff Backend Engineer, Senior Frontend Engineer, and AI/ML positions.
- **Growth opportunity**: High-growth startup (revenue and headcount scaling rapidly) with mission-driven work that impacts millions of customers.

## Sources
1. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/giga-gigamlcom) – Company overview, size, offices, culture
2. [giga.ai/careers](https://giga.ai/careers) – Official careers page, values, benefits, open roles
3. [crunchbase.com](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/giga-ml) – Funding, products, founders, headquarters
4. [ycombinator.com](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/giga) – YC profile, founding date, team size, latest news
5. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/gigaml) – Employee count, revenue, funding, growth metrics, open positions
6. [fortune.com](https://fortune.com) (referenced in YC news) – $61M raise and DoorDash partnership

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