Hybrid Director of Testing – Engineering

at Riverlane

• Job title: Director of Testing – Engineering
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Lead
• Salary: £125,000 - £150,000 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Cambridge, United Kingdom

About the role

• Director of Testing leading quality assurance and validation efforts for quantum computing products. Overseeing teams and driving strategies for hardware and software testing at Riverlane.

Responsibilities

• Own the QA strategy across engineering, ensuring rigorous verification, testing, and validation of hardware and software products.
• Coordinate and oversee testing, verification, and validation plans across multiple teams.
• Drive hiring plans to scale a high-performing QA and test organisation.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to support verification and testing initiatives and provide guidance on validation activities.
• Implement best practices, processes, and frameworks for testing across the company, that ensure robust, scalable, and reliable products.
• Act as a technical and strategic leader in a matrixed, fast-moving environment, influencing product design, development timelines, and release readiness.
• Provide mentorship and leadership to engineering managers and individual contributors within testing teams.

Requirements

• Significant experience in QA, verification, and testing within semiconductor companies.
• Strong understanding of verification and testing methodologies; experience with validation is a plus.
• Proven track record of leading multiple teams in a matrixed organisation.
• Experience in hiring, developing, high performing technical teams.
• Strategic thinker with excellent communication skills, able to influence across technical and business stakeholders.
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, high-growth scale-up environment.
• Exceptional communication and organisational skills
• Highly motivated with enthusiasm and commitment to achieve ambitious targets
• A resilient problem-solver, comfortable with ambiguity and rapid change
• Excitement to be part of a category-defining quantum computing company with a global mission to enable utility scale quantum computing
• Even better if…
• You have experience with validation

Benefits

• A comprehensive benefits package that includes an annual bonus plan, private medical insurance, life insurance, and a contributory pension scheme
• Equity, so that our team can share in the long-term success of Riverlane
• 28 days annual leave, plus bank holidays and enhanced family leave
• A diverse work environment that brings together experts in many fields (including software and hardware development, quantum information theory, physics and maths) and over 20 different nationalities
• A learning environment that encourages individual, team and company growth and development, including a regular programme of learning events and training and conference budgets