3+ years of experience building test infrastructure, systems software, or platform tooling at scale, with real ownership of frameworks or automation for low-level software
Fluent in Python, with either proven Rust experience or a strong systems background (Go, C, C++) and a genuine appetite to build in Rust — the framework's core is Rust, and you'll live in it
Comfortable operating in a Kubernetes environment and reasoning about how software is built, containerized, deployed, and tested
Solid Linux systems background — the boot chain, kernel and drivers, low-level debugging — and comfort working close to the hardware
Real testing discipline: you've built automation that proves systems work, and you have strong opinions about flakiness, hermeticity, and signal
Clear communicator who treats the test framework as a product other engineers want to use, not a chore they route around
Rust and Kubernetes-native workflow orchestration (e.g., Argo Workflows) experience
HPC or large-cluster experience — InfiniBand/RoCE, GPU/accelerator validation, or performance-regression frameworks
Slurm or Slurm-on-Kubernetes (SUNK) experience
Firmware or lower-level hardware validation experience
Applying LLMs to test workflows — triage, failure classification, flaky-test detection
Contributions to open-source test frameworks, Rust crates, or systems projects