Quality Assurance Engineer

Job Title : Quality Assurance Engineer

Location : Miami, FL (Hybrid, Remote Considered)

About Aldea

Aldea is a next-generation AI company focused on voice-based clinical and expert applications. Our flagship product, Advisor, uses proprietary AI to scale the impact of world-class minds across personal development, finance, parenting, relationships, and more. We’re on a mission to bring the best expert guidance in the world to people navigating real-life challenges — whether that’s parenting, relationships, health, or personal growth. Our consumer products are voice-first, AI-native, and designed to meet people where they are.

As a multidisciplinary team of builders, researchers, and product thinkers, we value clear thinking, sharp writing, and strong user-first intuition.

This is a rare opportunity to join an early-stage startup that will help define a new category.

The Role

We’re hiring a Quality Assurance Engineer to join our Engineering team. This is a new role, created to enhance the reliability and performance of our AI infrastructure. You’ll be instrumental in building and maintaining a high-quality test suite that supports Aldea’s speech-related APIs and broader platform development.

This role is critical to our technical success, with a focus on test development and quality assurance. You’ll be responsible for creating and maintaining unit, integration, and end-to-end tests across backend systems, starting with our text-to-speech and speech-to-speech APIs. In your first 90 days, success means implementing robust test coverage for these core systems.

We’re looking for someone with at least 5 years of experience in software quality assurance or backend test engineering. This is a highly cross-functional role : you’ll collaborate with engineers, product managers, and infrastructure leads to ensure we ship scalable, reliable, and high-performing systems.

What you’ll do

• Design, develop, and maintain automated unit, integration, and end-to-end tests
• Lead QA strategy for backend systems, starting with speech-related APIs
• Work closely with backend engineers to integrate testing into the development lifecycle
• Identify and document bugs, edge cases, and test coverage gaps
• Contribute to CI / CD workflows to ensure smooth deployments
• Help define and track KPIs for quality and performance over time

Requirements

Nice-to-Have

This is a role for a systems-minded engineer who wants to drive quality across a growing platform. You’ll play a foundational role in ensuring our technology scales smoothly—while enabling innovative AI products to reach the world faster, more reliably, and with greater impact.

Benefits

We are a well-funded, Seed-stage company preparing for launch. We offer :