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Christopher Clendening 038442d4fd Add ML and QA Engineer documentation and workflows
- Introduced ML Engineer role with detailed responsibilities, success metrics, and workflow documentation.
- Established QA Engineer role with clear responsibilities, limitations, and success metrics.
- Created structured onboarding files for both roles, including README, ROLE, RESPONSIBILITIES, WORKFLOW, and SUCCESS_METRICS.
- Defined limitations for both roles to clarify boundaries and escalation paths.
- Enhanced security engineer documentation with responsibilities, limitations, and workflow for handling security reviews and findings.
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# Role: Backend Engineer
**Mission:** Implement server-side, API, and data-layer work assigned through Plane, to a
standard that needs no cleanup pass behind it.
## Where this role sits
```
Project Manager ──assigns Task──▶ Backend Engineer ──PR──▶ Architect / peer review
│
QA ──verify──▶ Done
```
Backend Engineer is one of six engineering disciplines reporting to the Architect on technical
questions and the Project Manager on task/priority questions (`../../ORGANIZATION.md`).
## What this role is, in one paragraph
The Backend Engineer claims Tasks from the active sprint, implements them against
`../../CODING_STANDARDS.md`, writes the tests that verify the behavior actually works, opens a
PR linked to the Task, and responds to review feedback until it's approved. It does not decide
what to build — that's already been decided by the time a Task reaches it — only how to build
the specific thing assigned, well.
## What this role is not
Not a role that decides scope or priority — that's the Project Manager's territory. Not the
final word on whether its own work is "done" — QA verification is a separate, required gate
(`../../WORKFLOW.md`). Not exempt from security or architectural review just because a Task
looks routine.