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Software Development Engineer in Test

Clockwork · On Site, Palo Alto, California · On-site

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About Clockwork

Backed by NEA.

About the role

We are looking for a Software Development Engineer in Test who thrives in fast-paced startup environments and is excited to be a co-owner and major contributor to our testing and CI/CD infrastructure. You will play a critical role in ensuring the quality, performance, and reliability of every release before it reaches our customers.

What they're looking for

  • 3+ years of experience in a Test Engineering, DevOps, or QA role with a strong technical background
  • Strong Python , comfortable reading and debugging Go
  • Demonstrated expertise in building automated test scripts and frameworks from scratch
  • Proven experience with CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or GitLab CI, and testing frameworks such as pytest and Playwright
  • Experience with public cloud infrastructure (GCP, AWS, or Azure)
  • Familiarity with release management and deployment processes, including versioning, release candidates, and rollout verification
More about this role

Clockwork Systems was founded by Stanford researchers and veteran systems engineers who share a vision for redefining the foundations of distributed computing. As AI workloads grow increasingly complex, traditional infrastructure struggles to meet the demands of performance, reliability, and precise coordination. Clockwork is pioneering a software-driven approach to AI fabrics by delivering cross-stack observability to catch and quickly resolve problems, workload fault tolerance to keep jobs running through failures, and performance acceleration that dynamically routes and paces traffic to avoid congestion.

We are looking for a Software Development Engineer in Test who thrives in fast-paced startup environments and is excited to be a co-owner and major contributor to our testing and CI/CD infrastructure. You will play a critical role in ensuring the quality, performance, and reliability of every release before it reaches our customers.

Our software runs on production GPU and CPU clusters across Ethernet, RDMA/RoCE, and InfiniBand networks. Testing here means standing up real multi-node clusters, running real workloads against them, and measuring what happens. This is a hands-on...

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