Principal Engineer & AI Lead, Quality Engineering (AI)

Location: Remote within the United States. Work location is flexible if approved by hirify.global. Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis; visa sponsorship is not available.

Annual salary: $113,100–$169,700, with potential bonus and equity eligibility.

Company

hirify.global is a large used-car retailer with more than 250 locations and over 25,000 associates, combining automotive retail with technology-driven customer experiences.

What you will do

• Lead and mentor organization-wide test automation efforts and establish scalable quality engineering practices.
• Create test strategies for multiple Agile teams, promote shift-left testing, and improve development workflows.
• Design testing infrastructure and integrations for regression and integration testing, while managing defect triage and resolution.
• Architect and productionize AI-driven testing systems, including autonomous test generation, self-healing automation, intelligent defect triage, and predictive quality analytics.
• Integrate LLM- and agent-based systems, including MCP-based agents, RAG pipelines, and autonomous test agents, into CI/CD and Quality Engineering workflows.
• Define AI governance, evaluation, privacy, reliability, hallucination-mitigation, and human-validation frameworks, while upskilling engineering teams.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field with 7+ years of experience, or a master’s degree with 5+ years of experience.
• 8+ years of Quality Engineering experience with expertise in automation frameworks and modern testing tools.
• Advanced knowledge of system design, object-oriented concepts, databases, programming fundamentals, HTML, JavaScript or TypeScript, and web services.
• Production experience architecting and deploying AI/ML or generative AI systems for software quality or testing.
• Deep knowledge of LLM architectures, agentic frameworks, APIs, prompt engineering, and evaluation methodologies.
• Current authorization to work full-time in the United States is required.

Nice to have

• Node, C#, TypeScript, WebDriverIO, Playwright, .NET Core, Azure, REST API testing, and API design.
• Experience scaling AI agents or copilots in CI/CD and enterprise Quality Engineering pipelines.
• Experience with RAG pipelines, vector databases, and Python-based ML tooling for testing or quality analytics.
• Experience applying AI/ML to defect prediction, test prioritization, or coverage optimization.

Culture & Benefits

• Flexible remote work arrangement subject to company approval.
• Paid sick, vacation, holiday, bereavement, and other leave, with terms depending on employment classification and tenure.
• Inclusive workplace with a focus on training, career growth, and diversity.
• Full-time salaried associates receive paid time away as needed, subject to manager approval.