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Director, Software Quality Engineering

Santa Clara💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-30

Core

Lead a team of eight to reset strategy and implement an automation-first mandate for testing the entire software stack (firmware, compiler, runtime, inference serving) to ensure correctness, performance, and release readiness.

Role type

Senior Director, Software Quality Engineering

Builds

Automated functional, integration, and end-to-end test suites; test frameworks and harnesses; release readiness criteria and quality gates.

Domain

Systems software testing, hardware/software integration, AI inference serving

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Software quality leadership, Python/C++ programming, systems software testing (firmware, compilers, runtimes), hardware/software integration testing, CI/CD integration, data-driven risk assessment, defect triage, team building and hiring

Preferred skills

ML/inference domain knowledge (quantization, numerics), inference serving stack familiarity, Kubernetes-based test environments, hardware-in-the-loop testing, AI for test generation

Technologies

Python, C++, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines

Responsibilities

Define quality strategy across the full stack; build reusable test frameworks; manage automated test suites for accuracy and performance regression; establish release gates and defect triage flows; lead and grow a team of eight engineers.

Seniority

Senior Director, hands-on IC

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