Distinguished Engineer, Quality Platform

FOX News Channel; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 247,000 - 320,000; Full time

Job summary

FOX News Channel is hiring a Distinguished Engineer, Quality Platform to lead the design and build of a modern, AI-driven quality engineering platform across FOX digital offerings. You will own a next-gen test automation framework and empower engineering teams to ship high-quality code faster.

The role requires hands-on leadership, deep platform experience, and strong collaboration with product, DevOps, and engineering leaders in a hybrid environment.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of engineering experience as a senior-level architect or similar.
• Experience with high-scale, low-latency distributed backend systems (e.g., Golang/Java, AWS).
• Proven track record building/operating internal platforms used by software teams.

Responsibilities

• Architect and scale the Quality Engineering Platform with AI/ML automation.
• Develop self-service QA tools including natural language test scripting and self-healing automation.
• Build dashboards to track regression risk, defect leakage, and code quality.

Skills

Engineering experience

Backend systems

AI/ML testing

CI/CD pipelines

Tools

Momentic

Mabl

Postman

Appium

Playwright

GitHub Actions

Job description

OVERVIEW OF THE COMPANY

Fox Corporation Under the FOX banner, we produce and distribute content through some of the world's leading and most valued brands, including: FOX News Media, FOX Sports, FOX Entertainment, FOX Television Stations and Tubi Media Group. We empower a diverse range of creators to imagine and develop culturally significant content, while building an organization that thrives on creative ideas, operational expertise and strategic thinking.

JOB DESCRIPTION

The FOX direct-to-consumer (DTC) platform is a new, forward-looking initiative within Tubi Media Group that brings FOX’s unparalleled content portfolio-news, sports, and entertainment-news directly to consumers via an innovative subscription streaming service. Driven by a highly experienced leadership team with extensive backgrounds at the intersections of media, technology, streaming, and content—and built with the full support of Fox Corporation—this venture combines entrepreneurial energy with deep media expertise. Our vision is to create a unified, modern viewing experience that puts the consumer first-seamlessly integrating live and on-demand content across platforms. At the intersection of cutting-edge technology and trusted storytelling, this is an opportunity to shape the future of streaming at one of the most pivotal moments in media. We're assembling a world-class team to deliver on that vision—and we're just getting started.

ABOUT THE ROLE

FOX is hiring a Distinguished Engineer, Quality Platform to lead the creation of a modern, AI-enhanced, end-to-end quality engineering platform that transforms how we assure, validate, and scale product excellence across all FOX digital offerings. This high-impact role is responsible for designing, building, and operationalizing a next-generation test automation platform that empowers engineering teams to ship high-quality code faster. The ideal candidate is a hands-on technical visionary with deep platform experience and a passion for enabling modern development practices.

A SNAPSHOT OF YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES

Architect, build, and scale FOX’s next-gen Quality Engineering Platform with best-in-class solutions; leverage latest adopted patterns and languages, and lean heavily into AI/ML automation. Introduce a self-service quality solution that supports natural language test scripting, self-healing automation, and real-time CI/CD test triggers. Own and evolve a quality framework supporting backend, frontend, data, and live-streaming environments. Build dashboards and telemetry to track regression risk, defect leakage, and code quality Enable teams and leadership to proactively identify where quality thresholds are met or at risk—and take timely, informed action. Establish best practices in AI/ML-powered test optimization, shift-left enablement, and developer-focused tooling Ensure the platform evolves and keeps pace with the DTC platforms and products. Partner with engineering, product, and DevOps leaders to embed quality across the SDLC Influence and enable a hybrid network of in-house engineers and vendor partners to drive tooling adoption and quality culture. Evangelize FOX’s quality vision internally and externally as we scale our unified platform (FOX One).

WHAT YOU WILL NEED

• 15+ years of engineering experience with at least 5 years in senior-level platform or infrastructure architecture roles
• Proven experience establishing and enforcing engineering standards for high-scale, low-latency distributed backend systems (e.g., Golang/Java, AWS).
• Proven success building and scaling internal platforms used by software engineering teams (not just QA teams)
• Deep hands-on experience with automated testing frameworks, observability, developer tooling, CI/CD pipelines, and quality telemetry
• Experience integrating AI/ML into testing workflows (e.g., natural language test creation, self-healing scripts)
• Experience with Momentic, Mabl, Postman, Appium, Playwright and similar development and testing platforms to automate at scale
• Track record of building quality frameworks in high-scale SaaS, streaming, or digital media environments
• Prior success transforming a manual QA culture into a dev-owned quality model
• Exceptional communication and cross-functional influence, able to engage with engineers, product managers, and execs alike

NICE TO HAVE, BUT NOT A DEALBREAKER

• Experience supporting high concurrency live environments (e.g. sports streaming)
• Familiarity with GitHub Actions, test orchestration, and test data management platforms

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We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with applicable law.

Pursuant to state and local pay disclosure requirements, the pay rate/range for this role, with final offer amount dependent on education, skills, experience, and location is $247,000.00-320,000.00 annually. This role is also eligible for an annual discretionary bonus, various benefits, including medical/dental/vision, insurance, a 401(k) plan, paid time off, and other benefits in accordance with applicable plan documents. Benefits for Union represented employees will be in accordance with the applicable collective bargaining agreement. View more detail about FOX Benefits.

We're disruptors. We're big dreamers. We're believers in the future, in possibility, in potential. We're reinventing the world, every day. We create content for audiences big and small, global and local. We put our audiences first, and work hard to bring them stories they'll love, wherever they are and however they watch, listen and learn. Whatever your discipline, from on-air talent to behind-the-scenes tech guru to business and finance, the career opportunities at FOX are exciting, rewarding and game-changing. We seek out the most talented individuals – the dreamers, the disruptors and the visionaries –and we want them to know that they matter. We're committed to helping every single one of our employees feel valued and inspired, every day.