Principal Quality Engineer
Core
Principal Quality Engineer driving the transformation to embedded quality ownership, building AI evaluation frameworks, and setting technical standards for an agentic product.
Role type
Principal, hands-on individual contributor
Builds
Quality infrastructure, AI evaluation frameworks, shared automation tooling
Domain
SaaS, AI/LLM, Quality Engineering
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Quality Engineering, SDET, automation frameworks (Playwright, Cypress), AI evaluation frameworks (LangSmith, Braintrust, DeepEval), programming (TypeScript, Python, Go), blameless postmortems, observability platforms (Sentry, Datadog, Pendo, Amplitude), AI-assisted development tools (Cursor, GitHub Copilot)
Preferred skills
AI-era startup experience, real estate/fintech/enterprise SaaS domain, manual-to-automation transformation, chaos engineering, public technical leadership
Technologies
Playwright, Cypress, LangSmith, Braintrust, DeepEval, TypeScript, Python, Go, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Sentry, Datadog, Pendo, Amplitude
Responsibilities
Set technical direction for quality (test pyramid, coverage, release criteria), build and own AI evals practice, champion AI-forward quality engineering, drive production-quality feedback loop (postmortems, RCA), coach embedded Quality Engineers, influence practice adoption across teams
Seniority
Principal, hands-on IC
