Principal Software Engineer

About this role

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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

Overview
Paramount 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 retriev...