Director of Quality Engineering

Code Metal is redefining code translation for mission-critical industries, helping defense partners move more quickly and reliably from algorithm to silicon. As the Director of Quality Engineering, you will define the quality engineering strategy, build and lead the team, and integrate quality processes into the development lifecycle.

Responsibilities:

• Define and own Code Metal's quality engineering strategy across functional, integration, performance, load, and reliability testing
• Build and lead the Quality Engineering team — hire, mentor, and grow QE / SDET and test infrastructure engineers
• Stand up the test automation platform: CI/CD test orchestration, ephemeral test environments, end-to-end regression suites, performance benchmarks, and chaos / fault-injection tooling
• Drive a "shift-left" culture: code coverage gates, static analysis, contract tests, design-for-testability reviews, and developer-friendly tooling that makes the right thing the easy thing
• Own release-readiness criteria. Be the person who can credibly say "this build is ready to ship" — and hold the line when it isn't
• Establish engineering quality metrics that measure test effectiveness, release readiness, automation coverage, test reliability, performance stability, and customer-reported defect trends, while integrating and operationalizing the validation frameworks developed by the research teams
• Partner with infrastructure / platform teams on production observability so quality signals don't stop at the deploy boundary
• Work with engineering leadership and security to implement quality processes that support ISO 27001, including test evidence, release controls, change management, documentation, and audit readiness

Requirements:

• 10+ years in software quality engineering, SDET, or test infrastructure roles, with at least 4+ years leading teams
• Demonstrated success building or maturing a Quality Engineering organization
• Deep technical chops: you can read the code your team is testing, design test architectures, and write production-quality automation yourself when needed
• Experience testing complex software systems such as developer tools, compilers, language runtimes, infrastructure platforms, distributed systems, or code generation platforms
• Experience with modern CI/CD (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Buildkite, CircleCI or similar), containerized test environments, and infrastructure-as-code for test platforms
• Excellent judgment about where automation provides the greatest value and when exploratory or manual testing is the better investment
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to work effectively across engineering, product, and executive leadership
• Experience with compiler technology, language tooling, code generation, static analysis, or developer platforms
• Experience with property-based testing, contract testing, or fault-injection testing
• Experience implementing or supporting engineering processes for ISO 27001, SOC 2, or similar security and compliance frameworks
• Experience supporting customers in regulated industries (defense, fintech, healthcare)