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# Software Development Engineer in Test at Plaud

- **Company:** [Plaud](https://feeny.ai/companies/plaud)
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-05-14
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/Plaud/8d39ed8f-8241-43bd-a75b-64a53f57aad6/application

**Skills:** Scrum, B2B SaaS, Enterprise software, Risk Management, Technical Roadmapping, Stakeholder Management, Chinese, Cursor, GPT models, Gemini, Claude

> The Quality Assurance Engineer will drive cross-functional programs from scoping to launch, managing timelines and dependencies. This role involves translating between engineering and business stakeholders, owning technical roadmaps, and ensuring alignment across engineering, product, and design teams.

## Job description

About Plaud Inc.

Plaud is building the real-world AI interface for professionals to amplify intelligence, elevate productivity and performance, loved by over 2,500,000 users worldwide since 2023. With a mission to amplify human intelligence, Plaud captures, structures, and compounds the intelligence generated in conversations — so humans can think better, decide faster, and execute with clarity.

Plaud Inc. is a Delaware-incorporated, San Francisco-based company pushing the boundary of human–AI intelligence through a hardware–software combination. With full ISO 27001, ISO 27701, SOC 2, GDPR, EN18031, and HIPAA compliances, Plaud is committed to the highest standards of data security and privacy protection.

To learn more about Plaud, please visit https://www.plaud.ai and follow along on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/plaud_official/, X https://twitter.com/PLAUDAI, Facebook https://www.facebook.com/plaudai, Linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/company/plaudai/?viewAsMember=true, and YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@PLAUDAI

## Why You Should Join Us

Plaud is building the next generation intelligence infrastructure and interfaces to capture, extract, and utilize intelligence from what people say, hear, see, and think.

- Plaud is a bootstrapped, skyrocketing, profitable company with a $300M revenue run rate achieved in just three years.
- Define the next-gen paradigm for human-AI interaction.
- Gain exposure to cutting-edge AI for Pro tools and play a direct role in our global expansion.
- Work with passionate teammates who value innovation, collaboration, and customer success.
- Grow your career in a culture that champions continuous learning and fast career development.
- Market-competitive compensation, global exposure, and a vibrant, creativity-fueled work atmosphere.

## What you will do

## About the Role

- We're looking for a Software Engineer in Test (SDET) to build our quality engineering function from the ground up. You'll own test automation across our consumer and enterprise platforms, embed quality into every stage of the development process, and help build a culture where engineers ship with confidence. This is an engineering role first. We expect you to build, not just test.

1. Build the Test Automation Platform Build an end-to-end automation framework covering Plaud's D2C consumer platform (plaud.ai http://plaud.ai, web.plaud.com http://web.plaud.com) and B2B Teams product. Integrate tests into CI/CD for continuous feedback. You'll also pioneer the use of AI-agentic tools — LLM-driven test generation, agent-based exploratory testing — to scale coverage in ways traditional approaches can't.
2. Shift Testing Left Embed into the SDLC from day one — review requirements, define acceptance criteria, and flag testability gaps before code is written. Partner with PMs and engineers so quality is a design input, not an afterthought.
3. Evangelize a Quality-First Engineering Culture Be the voice of quality in planning, sprint reviews, and design discussions. Coach engineers on writing testable code and owning quality in their own work. Make quality visible across the team.
4. Define and Track Quality Metrics Own key KPIs: test coverage, defect escape rate, regression pass rate. Report quality health to engineering leadership and build dashboards that give the team real-time release readiness visibility.
5. Own the Release Quality Bar Be the go/no-go voice on release readiness. Lead release sign-off for major launches across consumer and enterprise products.
6. Manual Testing (Short-Term) For the first 3–6 months while the automation framework is being built, cover critical user flows manually and write clear, reproducible bug reports.

## Skills, qualifications and experience we look for

Required:

1. 6+ yrs in software testing with a strong automation focus
2. Proficiency in Playwright for web e2e testing
3. test code in Python or Typescript
4. API testing experience
5. CI/CD integration
6. Expeirence working in an agile product/engineering team
7. Curiosity about or early experience with AI/LLM tools applied to testing
8. Ramps up fast - curious, self-directred, product-obssessed

Preferred:

Subscription billing, D2C platform, or enterprise SaaS experience

## What we offer

1. Meaningful Ownership An Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) that gives a real stake in Plaud’s long-term success.
2. High-Impact Environment Work in a fast-moving, product-driven environment where your ideas directly shape the future of AI productivity.
3. Cutting-Edge AI Tools for Productivity Access to best-in-class AI tools, including Cursor, GPT models, Gemini, Claude, and other frontier AI systems to maximize engineering and execution efficiency.
4. Best-in-Class Equipment Choice of top-spec laptops, high-performance workstation setups, and cutting-edge Plaud devices for all new hires.
5. Team & Culture Annual company offsites, team events, and a culture that values craftsmanship, ownership, and velocity.

## About Plaud

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Plaud builds an AI-powered hardware and software note-taking platform that automatically records, transcribes, and summarizes conversations to help professionals stay present and productive.
- **Entity Type**: Private (funding stage not publicly disclosed)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, USA
- **Founded**: 2023
- **Founders**: Not publicly listed on the website or in standard search results

## Core Business
- Primary industry/industries: AI-powered productivity software and consumer hardware
- Target customers: B2C (professionals, knowledge workers, medical practitioners) and B2B (teams and enterprises)
- Mission or purpose statement: "Amplify human intelligence" – building the next-generation intelligence infrastructure to capture, extract, and utilize what you say, hear, see, and think.

## Products & Services
- **Plaud Note (Hardware)**: An AI note-taking device that records conversations and uses AI to generate transcripts, summaries, action items, and key points. Award-winning hardware design.
- **Plaud App (Software)**: Companion app for transcription (112 languages), AI-powered summaries ("Plaud Intelligence"), search ("Ask Plaud"), and export/sharing/integration. Available on mobile and web.
- **Plaud Cloud**: Encrypted private cloud sync for cross-device access, with user-controlled data storage (on-device or cloud).
- **Subscription Plans**: Free tier (1,200 mins/mo transcription), Pro Plan ($99.99/year), Unlimited Plan ($239.99/year – unlimited transcription).

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Over 2,000,000 users worldwide since 2023 (as of mid-2026); used in over 170 countries
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not publicly listed. Featured in major media outlets (unspecified on site).
- **Growth Signals**: Rapid user growth to 2M+ in ~3 years; expansion from a single product to a suite with multiple subscription tiers; global office presence (San Francisco, Singapore, Tokyo, Shenzhen, Seattle, Beijing); compliance with ISO27001, ISO27701, GDPR, SOC 2, HIPAA, and EN 18031 – signaling enterprise readiness and expansion.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Hardware-Software Integration**: A dedicated hardware device for note-taking (unlike pure software competitors like Otter.ai or Fireflies.ai), enabling frictionless, ambient capture.
- **Privacy-First Architecture**: Data is never sold or used to train AI models; encryption in transit and at rest; user controls what syncs; multiple global security certifications (SOC 2, HIPAA, GDPR, ISO).
- **Multilingual & Multimodal**: Transcribes in 112 languages and supports multimodal input (voice, potentially more).
- **Strong Mission & Brand**: Positioned as "World's No.1 AI Note-taking Brand" with a clear philosophy around "Conversation as Intelligence."

## Strategic Focus
- **Scaling the user base**: Targeting 50 million professionals by 2030.
- **Enterprise & Healthcare Expansion**: HIPAA compliance and healthcare-specific messaging ("complete charts instantly") indicate a push into medical and enterprise verticals.
- **Global Office Build-out**: Establishing engineering, product, and go-to-market teams across US, Asia, and Europe.
- **Product Depth**: Moving beyond transcription to become an "intelligence infrastructure" that captures, extracts, and utilizes all forms of human communication.

## Why Work Here
- **Mission-Driven**: The company's philosophy ("Amplify Human Intelligence") is central to its culture, and employees are likely working on a product that directly impacts how millions of professionals work.
- **Growth Stage**: Rapidly scaling from 2M to a target of 50M users, offering significant career growth opportunities.
- **Global & Remote-Friendly**: Offices in San Francisco, Singapore, Tokyo, Shenzhen, Seattle, and Beijing – suggests a distributed, cross-cultural work environment.
- **Cutting-Edge Tech**: Working on the frontier of AI (LLMs, speech recognition, hardware-software integration) with a "Pursue SOTA" (State of the Art) value.
- **Values-Driven Culture**: Listed values include "Human First," "Act from first principles," "Dare to change," "Use AI to its fullest," and "Let others thrive."
- **Perks**: One-year warranty on hardware, lifetime customer support, and a focus on data security (ISO/SOC/HIPAA compliance) indicates a mature engineering and operations culture.

## Sources
1. [Plaud.ai - Homepage](https://www.plaud.ai/)
2. [Plaud.ai - About Us](https://www.plaud.ai/pages/about-us)
3. [Plaud.ai - Our Story](https://www.plaud.ai/pages/our-story)
4. [Plaud - Careers Page](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/Plaud)

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