Director, AI-Driven Software Quality & Automation

d-Matrix; Santa Clara (CA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

d-Matrix in Santa Clara is seeking a Director of Software Quality Engineering to define the QA vision across firmware, compiler, runtime, and inference-serving software. Lead automation strategy and day-to-day execution while developing engineers and aligning with product goals.

You will assess current processes, create practical roadmaps, and expand automation and AI-assisted practices to meet growing product complexity.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience setting quality strategy and test architecture while leading daily delivery and developing a software quality or test engineering team.
• Strong programming ability in Python and/or C++, including building test frameworks and reviewing test code.
• Systems software testing experience in firmware, compilers, runtimes, drivers, distributed systems, or comparable software, including hardware/software integration with real devices.
• Ability to evaluate AI-assisted engineering workflows and judge whether AI-generated tests verify intended behavior rather than merely pass.
• Experience designing test coverage under resource constraints, integrating tests into CI, and defining promotion and release gates.
• Sound judgment about coverage, risk, and metrics, and the ability to work credibly with developers and communicate clear quality assessments.

Responsibilities

• Define the quality strategy, technical roadmap, and test architecture across firmware, compiler, runtime, and inference serving.
• Build reusable test frameworks and automated functional, integration, and end-to-end coverage, with deliberate choices about what runs on available hardware and when.
• Develop continuous soak testing to assess long-run stability and produce useful failure evidence.
• Establish numerical comparison and tolerance policies with engineering owners, and detect performance regressions against reliable baselines.
• Define measurable QA readiness criteria and quality gates. Qualify the exact release candidate, including targeted customer fixes, and communicate results, gaps, and risks clearly.
• Improve defect triage and turn lessons from customer-reported defects into better coverage and engineering practices.
• Evaluate and adopt AI-assisted test generation, triage, and failure clustering where they deliver measurable benefits.
• Establish and maintain processes for open-source and proprietary software license compliance, including inbound and outbound obligations, in partnership with Legal.
• Coordinate implementation and ongoing review of the company's AI use policy with legal, security, and engineering leadership.
• Coach and develop the software quality engineering team.

Skills

Python

C++

Test frameworks

CI integration

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field

Tools

Kubernetes

Job description

d-Matrix in Santa Clara is seeking a Director of Software Quality Engineering to define the QA vision across firmware, compiler, runtime, and inference-serving software. Lead automation strategy and day-to-day execution while developing engineers and aligning with product goals.

You will assess current processes, create practical roadmaps, and expand automation and AI-assisted practices to meet growing product complexity.