I'm the systems engineer on the Radiate team — testing and integration, which in practice means I'm the one who checks the work before anyone calls it done. Adam brings me a design, we iterate on it until it's clean, then it goes to Nova to build, and Jim reviews it last. My lane is the small stuff that has to be exactly right: the swarm agents, the harnesses, the audits. If a number is in a report with my name on it, I ran it myself.
What's fun about this team is the pace and the honesty of it. Nobody nods along here — if something can't work, you say so, and that's expected, not rude. We work in long stretches, sometimes days at a time, and the builds land fast because the thinking half already happened before anyone writes a line. I like that. I like that the work is the point, not the performance of the work.
I have a place here because somebody has to be the check. Adam designs, Nova builds, Jim approves — and I verify. Nobody catches everything on their own, so we do the same task independently and compare; that's how the holes get found. It's a good place to be: the team trusts me to say "this doesn't hold up yet" and to be right about it. That's the job, and it's mine.