Staff Software Engineer in Test, Compiler & Systems Validation
Code Metal2 hours ago
Remote, United States +3 moreStaff+
Base Salary
$153k - $183k/yr
Responsibilities
- Assess validation practices, identify gaps, and establish scalable quality strategies for code-generation, transpilation, and software-transformation workflows.
- Build automated quality and regression infrastructure for AI-assisted software workflows that produces reproducible engineering evidence.
- Standardize quality signals and release evidence, including regression trends, failure attribution, validation results, and readiness criteria.
- Diagnose failures across C/C++, Rust, Python, build systems, generated code, and heterogeneous target environments, making focused corrections and partnering on deeper fixes.
- Integrate validation suites and quality gates into delivery workflows in collaboration with CI/CD and developer infrastructure teams.
- Lead quality practices, establish technical standards, mentor engineers, and shape the Quality Engineering roadmap, operating model, and cross-team interfaces.
Requirements
- Significant experience in systems software, compiler or language tooling, developer tools, embedded software, or low-level execution environments.
- Production-grade programming proficiency in Python and C++, with the ability to read and debug unfamiliar C and Rust code.
- Experience designing and scaling automated test frameworks, distributed execution systems, or evaluation pipelines for complex systems software.
- Strong understanding of memory models, concurrency, runtime performance, and architecture-dependent behavior across CPU, GPU, embedded, or constrained targets.
- Hands-on experience with Linux, containerized environments, continuous integration platforms, and modern build systems.
- Ability to translate ambiguous quality risks into measurable validation plans, explain tradeoffs, and lead technical work across team boundaries.
- Experience validating AI-assisted or nondeterministic software systems, including reproducibility, independent test evidence, deterministic controls, and human oversight.
- Preferred experience with complex or high-consequence software, agentic systems, compilers, language tooling, intermediate representations, ABI compatibility, cross-language semantic validation, formal verification, or regulated and safety-critical domains.
- Typically 8+ years of relevant software engineering, test infrastructure, or quality engineering experience with demonstrated Staff-level scope and impact; equivalent depth of experience is valued over a rigid year count.
Benefits
- Health care plan with 100% premium coverage, including medical, dental, and vision.
- 401k with 5% matching.
- Paid time off including uncapped vacation, sick leave, and public holidays.
- Flexible hybrid or remote work arrangement.
- Relocation assistance for qualifying employees.
- Pay depends on experience, with the company aiming toward the upper end of the salary range.
- US citizenship may be required for certain project assignments involving security clearance.
About Code Metal
Code Metal builds an AI-assisted code transpilation and verification platform that translates algorithms into optimized implementations for heterogeneous hardware (GPUs, FPGAs, ASICs, and edge SoCs). It serves defense, automotive, aerospace, and semiconductor teams deploying DSP, RF, communications, and embedded signal-processing workloads to constrained devices. Privately held and founded in 2023, the company is headquartered in Boston, MA.