Principal Quality Engineer
Core
Driving the transformation to a decentralized quality model where delivery teams own quality, building AI evaluation frameworks for agentic products, and setting technical standards for the engineering organization.
Role type
Principal Quality Engineer (hands-on IC)
Builds
Shared quality tooling, AI evaluation infrastructure, and org-wide quality frameworks for agentic products
Domain
SaaS / Real Estate Tech / AI Engineering
Deliverable
production ML models | infrastructure
Required skills
Quality Engineering strategy, hands-on automation framework development, LLM/Agentic AI evaluation, technical influence without authority, blameless postmortems, observability platform usage, AI-assisted development proficiency
Preferred skills
Experience in startup/growth-stage environments, B2B/FinTech/PropTech domain knowledge, coaching embedded QEs
Technologies
Playwright, Cypress, LangSmith, Braintrust, DeepEval, TypeScript, Python, Go, Sentry, Datadog, Pendo, Amplitude, Cursor, GitHub Copilot
Responsibilities
Define test pyramid strategy and release criteria, build AI evals practice and regression frameworks, drive production-quality feedback loops and RCA practices, coach embedded Quality Engineers, influence quality practice adoption across teams, collaborate with VP Engineering on long-term strategy
Seniority
Principal, hands-on IC