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Senior Staff AI Engineer, (AI Quality & Test Automation)
Illumina · San Diego, CA · Posted 10 days ago
Set the technical direction for quality across Illumina's enterprise platforms as AI agents take on a growing share of testing, and make agentic testing trustworthy for GxP systems.
Location San Diego, CA. Not remote.
Position Summary We are hiring a Senior Staff AI Engineer to set the technical direction for quality engineering across Illumina's enterprise platforms, with AI agents doing a growing share of the testing work. You will be the most senior individual contributor in QA: you design the test architecture, lead our Tricentis platform, and make agentic testing safe enough for regulated, GxP-relevant systems. Technical leadership of 10-20 QA and automation engineers across vendors and teams.
The role sits in Enterprise AI and partners with Data Engineering, application teams (SAP, Salesforce, ServiceNow, Workday, M365) and Quality & Regulatory. It covers two equally important missions: using AI agents to test our software faster, and testing the AI agents we build so they can be trusted in production.
Responsibilities
- Own the enterprise test strategy. Define a risk-based, shift-left and shift-right strategy across SAP S/4HANA, Salesforce, ServiceNow, Workday, custom apps, data pipelines and AI agents.
- Lead the Tricentis platform. Architect Tosca, qTest, NeoLoad, SeaLights, LiveCompare and Tricentis AI Workspace as one quality platform, including standards, reuse libraries, licensing and roadmap.
- Build agentic testing at scale. Design and run multi-agent test workflows that generate, execute, heal and triage tests, with clear human approval points and audit trails.
- Test our AI agents. Create the evaluation framework that gates every agent release: golden datasets, LLM-as-judge scoring, red teaming, tool-call correctness, safety and cost checks.
- Connect agents to tools through MCP. Integrate Tricentis remote MCP servers and our own MCP servers with Claude, GitHub Copilot, Cursor and Codex under the Enterprise AI gateway and policy.
- Embed quality in CI/CD. Make test impact analysis, quality gates and release risk scoring standard in every pipeline, so teams ship on evidence rather than gut feel.
- Deliver validated quality for GxP. Partner with Quality & Regulatory to apply FDA CSA and GAMP 5 (2nd ed.) so automated and AI-assisted testing produces Part 11 compliant evidence.
- Raise the bar for engineers. Mentor senior and staff engineers, run design reviews, write the playbooks, and lead the QA community of practice.
- Measure and report value. Own the quality scorecard (escape rate, automation coverage, cycle time, cost per test) and report it to engineering and business leaders.
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