Principal Quality Engineer

Dealpath is modernizing its approach to software quality. We're moving from a centralized manual QA team to a model where delivery teams own quality end-to-end, supported by embedded Quality Engineers. We need a Principal-level technical leader to drive that transformation as a hands-on individual contributor. This is not a people-management role. It's a high-impact senior IC role where your leverage comes from technical depth, judgment, and influence — building shared tooling, setting the bar, and being the person every QE and engineer goes to with hard quality questions. You will build the frameworks, set the standards, coach the embedded QEs, and own the quality infrastructure for our agentic product direction. We’re hiring a Principal Quality Engineer for a full-time role, with a hybrid schedule that includes three days a week in the office in San Francisco. You’re excited about this opportunity because you’ll: Set the technical direction for quality across Dealpath’s engineering organization — defining the test pyramid strategy, coverage thresholds, release criteria, and tooling choices that shape how every delivery team ships. Build and own Dealpath’s AI evals practice, creating the infrastructure, metrics, and regression frameworks that ensure our agentic product features meet a rigorous quality bar. Champion AI-forward quality engineering by using AI tools consistently in your own work and coaching the QE community to do the same: writing better test code, reviewing AI-generated output critically, and applying AI to accelerate evaluation workflows. Drive the production-quality feedback loop — owning blameless postmortems, RCA practices, and the org-wide quality scorecard that makes escape rates and systemic issues visible to engineering leadership. Coach and grow embedded Quality Engineers across delivery teams, running the QE community of practice and setting the hiring bar for every QE role. Influence without authority — driving practice adoption across mu