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About the Role

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 senior technical leadership role focuses on designing intelligent systems, internal developer tools, and automation accelerators to elevate testing maturity and modernize GQE's quality delivery 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, requiring deep software engineering expertise, architectural judgment, and hands-on experience applying LLMs, retrieval systems, and automation frameworks to real engineering workflows.

Responsibilities

Design and build AI-powered tools that accelerate test creation, code generation, defect triage, log/telemetry summarization, and root-cause analysis.
Architect retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems, embeddings pipelines, and domain-specific LLM integrations tailored to GQE workflows.
Develop internal developer tools, CLIs, services, and micro-platforms that integrate seamlessly with existing automation frameworks and CI/CD systems.
Build scalable APIs and services that expose AI capabilities to GQE teams across brands and platforms.
Create systems that automatically evaluate test failures, classify flakiness, detect patterns, and recommend fixes.
Build AI-assisted test authoring tools that generate high-quality test scaffolds, assertions, mocks, and data models.
Integrate AI-driven insights into CI/CD pipelines to reduce triage time, improve signal quality, and accelerate release readiness.
Partner with automation framework owners to embed AI capabilities into existing Java-based frameworks.
Serve as a senior technical leader leading the vision for AI-enabled quality engineering across the organization.
Mentor engineers across GQE on AI tooling, platform engineering, and modern software development practices.
Evaluate emerging AI technologies, frameworks, and platforms to identify practical, high-impact opportunities.
Establish engineering best practices for reliability, observability, performance, and maintainability of AI systems.
Partner with Platform Engineering, Data Engineering, Playback/Video Engineering, and Product teams to integrate AI tooling into core workflows.
Work with QE leadership to understand pain points, define requirements, and prioritize high-value AI capabilities.
Collaborate with DevOps and CI/CD teams to ensure AI tools operate dependably in production pipelines.
Build high-performance backend services using Java, Kotlin, Python, or Node.js.
Implement vector databases, embeddings pipelines, and retrieval systems using tools such as Pinecone, Weaviate, FAISS, or OpenSearch.
Develop microservices, event-driven systems, and distributed architectures deployed on Kubernetes and cloud platforms.
Integrate with GitHub, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, and internal automation frameworks to deliver seamless developer experiences.

Requirements

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, prompt engineering, 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.
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.

Skills

AI Tooling
Platform Development
RAG systems
Embeddings pipelines
LLM integrations
Internal developer tools
CLIs
Services
Micro-platforms
Automation frameworks
CI/CD systems
APIs
Intelligent Automation
Quality Acceleration
Test failure evaluation
Flakiness classification
Pattern detection
AI-assisted test authoring
Test scaffold generation
Assertion generation
Mock generation
Data model generation
AI-driven insights
Triage time reduction
Signal quality improvement
Release readiness acceleration
Java
Kotlin
Python
Node.js
Vector databases
Pinecone
Weaviate
FAISS
OpenSearch
Microservices
Event-driven systems
Distributed architectures
Kubernetes
Cloud platforms
GitHub
GitHub Actions
Jenkins
Observability stacks
Grafana
Prometheus
DataDog
NewRelic
Telemetry pipelines
Media/streaming
Distributed playback systems
Device-level testing

Location

New York City
Los Angeles
San Francisco

Work Type

On-site

Experience Level

Principal
8+ years of software engineering experience

Salary/Compensations

$203,200.00 - $304,800.00

Benefits

Medical
Dental
Vision
401(k) plan
Life insurance coverage
Disability benefits
Tuition assistance program
PTO
Bonus eligible
Attractive compensation and comprehensive benefits packages
Generous paid time off

About the Company

Paramount Streaming, a division within Paramount Global, is the home to the company's direct-to-consumer services spanning free and paid in the form of Pluto TV and Paramount+. Pluto TV is the global leader in free ad-supported TV, delivering more than 1,400 global channels and an extensive library of streaming content, including live and original channels. Paramount+, digital subscription video-on-demand and live streaming service, combines live sports, breaking news, and A Mountain of Entertainment™. Paramount+ features an expansive library of original series, hit shows and popular movies across every genre from world-renowned brands and production studios, including SHOWTIME®.

Equal Opportunity

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.
If you are a qualified individual with a disability or a disabled veteran, you may request a reasonable accommodation if you are unable or limited in your ability to use or access https://www.paramount.com/careers as a result of your disability. You can request reasonable accommodations by calling 212.846.5500 or by sending an email to paramountaccommodations@paramount.com. Only messages left for this purpose will be returned.