Member of Technical Staff, QA

Vapi

Vapi

IT, Quality Assurance

San Francisco, CA, USA

USD 180k-280k / year + Equity

Posted on May 15, 2026

Location

San Francisco

Employment Type

Full time

Location Type

Hybrid

Department

Engineering, Product & DesignProduct Engineering

Compensation

  • $180K – $280K • Offers Equity

Vapi (/ˈVɑːpi/):

We're creating the shift to voice as humanity's default interface.

  • We're the most configurable platform for deploying voice agents.

  • 1M+ developers build on Vapi, and we power 1M+ calls a day for companies like Amazon, Intuit, and New York Life.

  • We just announced our Series B and are based in San Francisco.

  • Try talking to Vapi now!

Why We’re Hiring This Role:

  • Vapi is the platform enterprises use to build production voice agents, and our product surface is expanding fast to support the next billion calls.

  • We're hiring our first dedicated QA Engineer on the product team to own end-to-end quality across that surface.

  • This is a real ownership role: you'll work on the cutting edge of AI, define how we test a non-deterministic product, partner directly with engineers on a small team, and have outsized impact on what our customers experience every day.

What You’ll Do:

  • First 30 Days:

    • Build and deploy real assistants on Vapi, run live calls and simulations across our main provider integrations (LLMs, STT, TTS, telephony), and break the product in at least a few interesting ways.

    • Get up and running in our existing e2e test framework and ship your first Playwright tests against the dashboard.

    • File bugs that engineers fix, and develop a working point of view on where our coverage is weakest.

  • By 60 Days:

    • Own release testing for at least one major product area (assistant builder, simulations, monitoring, knowledge base, or versioning), and earn engineers' trust to gate it.

    • Meaningfully improve automated coverage in your area.

    • Partner with engineers on test strategy for new features before they ship.

    • Use AI coding agents to multiply your throughput on test scenarios and regression coverage.

  • By 90 Days:

    • Operate as a full peer to engineers on the team, owning QA across the product surface without handholding.

    • Extend our testing practices and contribute patterns the rest of the team picks up.

    • Be involved in new features from the start, with the automation suite meaningfully larger on your watch.

Who You Are:

Must-Haves

  • 5+ years in QA, SDET, Test Engineering, or product engineering with a strong testing focus.

  • Hands-on with at least one modern e2e framework — Playwright preferred; Cypress, Selenium, or equivalent are fine.

  • Comfortable reading and writing TypeScript / JavaScript well enough to extend our test suite and file bugs with a hypothesis attached.

  • Track record testing complex, distributed systems with real failure modes — APIs, integrations, real-time behavior, anything where "correct" isn't a fixed string.

  • Daily use of AI coding agents (Claude Code, Cursor, or similar) with opinions about where they help and where they don't.

  • Self-directed: you read the PR, open the product, and start finding what's broken without waiting for a spec.

  • Strong written communication, especially in bug reports and test plans.

  • Customer empathy and a bias for action: you ship, you own outcomes, and you care what users actually experience.

Nice-to-Haves

  • Background in voice AI, conversational AI, LLM applications, or telephony.

  • Experience with LLM evals or testing non-deterministic systems.

  • Worked on a developer-facing product — APIs, SDKs, dashboards — where the audience is technical.

  • Early-stage startup experience; comfortable with ambiguity and shifting priorities.

  • Open-source contributions or public writing on testing, evals, or QA practice.

Why Vapi:

  • Generational impact: Build the human interface for every business.

  • Ownership culture: 70% of the company are previous founders.

  • Kind team: The founders, Jordan and Nikhil, are Canadians.

  • Tier-1 Investors: YC, KP seed, Bessemer Series A.

What We Offer:

  • Real stake: Competitive salary and excellent equity ownership.

  • Comprehensive health coverage: medical, dental, and vision plans.

  • Team love: We love hanging out, and we do quarterly off-sites.

  • Flexible time off: take what you need.

  • More: catered meals, transportation, gym, and a $10k annual L&D budget.

Compensation Range: $180K - $280K