Principal Software Quality Engineer

About the Job

At Red Hat, our commitment to open source innovation extends beyond our products – it’s embedded in how we work and grow. Red Hatters embrace change – especially in our fast-moving technological landscape – and have a strong growth mindset. That's why we encourage our teams to proactively, thoughtfully, and ethically use AI to simplify their workflows, cut complexity, and boost efficiency. This empowers our associates to focus on higher-impact work, creating smart, more innovative solutions that solve our customers' most pressing challenges.

Red Hat’s Global Engineering team is looking for an experienced Principal Quality Engineer to join the Agentic and AI Engineering Tools team. In this role, you’ll contribute directly to Red Hat’s rapidly growing AI/ML family of products and will be responsible for developing and maintaining test strategies and frameworks, designing and implementing automated tests, and creating and carrying out test plans. Quality engineers in this role will participate in standard quality practices, design reviews, automated testing, and productization for major product features and bug fixes. In addition, you may have to consider novel ways for testing non-deterministic systems and code, as well as pay close attention to potential sources of bias that may be introduced during model build and training.

What you will do

• Collaboratively design and develop automation test plans and scripts.

• Partner with Product Management, User Experience, and Development to identify and incorporate customer needs and use cases into testing strategies and feature designs.

• Execute manual and automated tests and deliver clear status updates in a timely manner.

• Advocate for the resolution of critical issues and communicate the impact on customers to the development team(s).

• Monitor and participate in upstream AI/ML communities, evaluating new AI/ML-related technologies in the space and considering potential integrations and collaborations upstream.

• Run technical initiatives that grow, improve, and scale our existing processes.

• Regularly communicate with project stakeholders including other teams of Red Hat engineers, product managers, consultants, management, and senior leadership.

• Explore and experiment with emerging AI technologies relevant to software development, proactively identifying opportunities to incorporate new AI capabilities into existing workflows and tooling.

• Leverage AI-driven testing frameworks to automate test case generation, optimize test execution, identify potential edge cases, and enhance overall test coverage and reliability.

What you will bring

• 10+ years of experience as a Software Quality Engineer, Software Development Engineer in Test, or similar role.

• Extensive experience scripting and creating automation in Python and Bash.

• Experience creating automation for GitHub, using GitHub Actions or related continuous integration tools.

• Experience developing unit, functional, and end-to-end (E2E) test cases and automation.

• Familiarity with AI and Machine Learning platforms, tools, and frameworks, such as PyTorch, LLaMA.cpp, vLLM, Kubeflow, and Docling.

• Ability to quickly learn and use new tools and technologies.

Following is considered a plus

• Experience working with Kubernetes/OpenShift and containers.

• Experience with AI and Machine Learning platforms, tools, and frameworks, such as PyTorch, LLaMA.cpp, vLLM, Kubeflow, and Docling.

• Understanding of DevOps methodology, scrum, and/orJira.

• Experience with hardware accelerators such as CUDA and ROCm.

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related discipline.

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The salary range for this position is $127,890.00 - $211,180.00. Actual offer will be based on your qualifications.

Pay Transparency

Red Hat determines compensation based on several factors including but not limited to job location, experience, applicable skills and training, external market value, and internal pay equity. Annual salary is one component of Red Hat’s compensation package. This position may also be eligible for bonus, commission, and/or equity. For positions with Remote-US locations, the actual salary range for the position may differ based on location but will be commensurate with job duties an