Principal Software Engineer

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Job Title: Principal Software Engineer - AI Tooling & Quality Engineering Platforms
Team: Global Quality Engineering (GQE)
Location: New York City, Los Angeles, San Francisco

OverviewParamount Skydance Corp. is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to architect, build,
and scale AI‑driven tooling and engineering platforms that accelerate quality,
automation, and developer productivity across the Global Quality Engineering
organization. This is a senior technical leadership role focused on designing intelligent
systems, internal developer tools, and automation accelerators that elevate testing
maturity and modernize how GQE delivers quality at scale.

You will partner closely with engineering, platform, and data teams to build AI‑powered
solutions that streamline test creation, triage, analysis, and execution. This role requires
deep software engineering expertise, deep architectural judgment, and hands‑on
experience applying LLMs, retrieval systems, and automation frameworks to real
engineering workflows.

This is not a traditional “in test” role. You will be building AI platforms, internal tools,
and automation accelerators that enable hundreds of engineers across GQE.

 

Key Responsibilities

AI Tooling Architecture & Platform Development
● Design and build AI‑powered tools that accelerate test creation, code generation,defect triage, log/telemetry summarization, and root‑cause analysis.
● Architect retrieval‑augmented generation (RAG) systems, embeddings pipelines,
and domain‑specific LLM integrations tailored to GQE workflows.
● Develop internal developer tools, CLIs, services, and micro‑platforms that
integrate seamlessly with existing automation frameworks and CI/CD systems.
● Build scalable APIs and services that expose AI capabilities to GQE teams
across brands and platforms.

Intelligent Automation & Quality Acceleration

● Create systems that automatically evaluate test failures, classify flakiness, detect
patterns, and recommend fixes.
● Build AI‑assisted test authoring tools that generate high‑quality test scaffolds,
assertions, mocks, and data models.
● Integrate AI‑driven insights into CI/CD pipelines to reduce triage time, improve
signal quality, and accelerate release readiness.
● Partner with automation framework owners to embed AI capabilities into existing
Java‑based frameworks.

Engineering Excellence & Technical Leadership

● Serve as a senior technical leader leading the vision for AI‑enabled quality
engineering across the organization.
● Mentor engineers across GQE on AI tooling, platform engineering, and modern
software development practices.
● Evaluate emerging AI technologies, frameworks, and platforms to identify
practical, high‑impact opportunities.
● Establish engineering best practices for reliability, observability, performance, and
maintainability of AI systems.

Cross‑Functional Collaboration

● Partner with Platform Engineering, Data Engineering, Playback/Video
Engineering, and Product teams to integrate AI tooling into core workflows.
● Work with QE leadership to understand pain points, define requirements, and
prioritize high‑value AI capabilities.
● Collaborate with DevOps and CI/CD teams to ensure AI tools operate dependably in
production pipelines.

Technical Execution

● Build high‑performance backend services using Java, Kotlin, Python, or Node.js.
● Implement vector databases, embeddings pipelines, and retrieval systems using
tools such as Pinecone, Weaviate, FAISS, or OpenSearch.
● Develop microservices, event‑driven systems, and distributed architectures
deployed on Kubernetes and cloud platforms.
● Integrate with GitHub, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, and internal automation
frameworks to deliver seamless developer experiences.

Required Qualifications

● 8+ years of software engineering experience with robust backend development
expertise (Java, Kotlin, Python, or similar).
● Proven experience architecting and building production‑grade AI or ML‑powered
systems, including LLM integrations, RAG pipelines, or intelligent automation
tools.
● Strong knowledge o