Principal Software Engineer

Principal Software Engineer

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.

Key Responsibilities

• AI Tooling Architecture & Platform Development
• Intelligent Automation & Quality Acceleration
• Engineering Excellence & Technical Leadership
• Cross-Functional Collaboration

Required Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience with robust backend development expertise (Java, Kotlin, Python, or similar).
• Proven experience architecting and building production-grade AI or ML-powered systems, including LLM integrations, RAG pipelines, or intelligent automation tools.
• Strong knowledge of distributed systems, microservices, cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, OCI or Azure), and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Hands-on experience with vector databases, embeddings pipelines, and LLM orchestration frameworks.
• Experience integrating tools into CI/CD pipelines and developer workflows.
• Strong architectural judgment, systems thinking, and ability to design scalable internal platforms.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to influence across engineering, product, and quality organizations.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building internal developer platforms, productivity tools, or automation accelerators.
• Familiarity with test automation frameworks, quality engineering workflows, or large-scale testing systems.
• Experience with observability stacks (Grafana, Prometheus, DataDog, NewRelic) and telemetry pipelines.
• Background in media/streaming, distributed playback systems, or device-level testing environments.

Key Competencies

• Technical Leadership – sets architectural direction and elevates engineering maturity.
• AI Fluency – practical judgment on where AI delivers measurable value.
• Systems Thinking – ability to design platforms that scale across teams and brands.
• Innovation – identifies opportunities to transform workflows through intelligent automation.
• Ownership – drives complex initiatives end-to-end with autonomy and clarity.

Success Metrics

• Delivery of AI tooling that reduces triage time, accelerates test creation, and improves signal quality.
• Adoption of AI-powered tools across GQE teams and measurable improvements in productivity.
• Reduction in flakiness, false positives, and manual triage effort through intelligent automation.
• Increased engineering efficiency and faster release cycles enabled by AI-augmented workflows.
• Strong cross-functional alignment and consistent usage of AI platforms across brands and pillars.

Hiring Salary Range: $213,360.00 - 320,040.00. The hiring salary range for this position applies to New York, California, Colorado, Washington state, and most other geographies. Starting pay for the successful applicant depends on a variety of job-related factors, including but not limited to geographic location, market demands, experience, training, and education. The benefits available for this position include medical, dental, vision, 401(k) plan, life insurance coverage, disability benefits, tuition assistance program and PTO or, if applicable, as otherwise dictated by the appropriate Collective Bargaining Agreement. This position is bonus eligible.

What We Offer

• Attractive compensation and comprehensive benefits packages.
• Generous paid time off.
• An exciting and fulfilling opportunity to be part of one of Paramount's most dynamic teams.
• Opportunities for both on-site and virtual engagement events.
• Unique opportunities to make meaningful connections and build a vibrant community, both inside and outside the workplace.

Paramount is an equal opportunity employer (EOE) including disability/vet. At Paramount, the spirit of inclusion feeds into everything that we do, on-screen and off. From the programming and movies we create to employee benefits/programs and social impact outreach initiatives, we believe that opportunity, access, resources and rewards should be available to and for the benefit of all. Paramount is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, religion, creed, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship status, marital status, disability, gender identity, gender expression, and Veteran status.