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Staff Quality Engineer jobs are open across technology, aerospace, medical devices, and manufacturing, at every level from senior engineer to principal and staff, with specializations in test automation, process quality, and reliability engineering. See the openings below and apply to the ones that match your experience.
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Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Pittsburgh, PA, USA; New York, NY, USA.
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 8 years of experience in software development.
- 5 years of experience with ML design and end-to-end machine learning (e.g., model deployment, model evaluation, data processing, debugging).
- 5 years of experience with one or more of the following: Speech/audio (e.g., technology duplicating and responding to the human voice), reinforcement learning (e.g., sequential decision making), ML infrastructure, or specialization in another ML field.
- Experience applying machine learning techniques to search ranking performance and information retrieval systems.
- Experience building recommendation systems to provide user-specific item or content suggestions.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience solving open-ended quality problems, identifying systemic gaps, and driving root-cause analysis to resolve them.
- Experience building user-facing AI features.
- Experience designing system architecture and AI/ML-powered solutions.
- Experience defining long-term technical vision and establishing roadmaps for problem spaces.
- Ability to drive cross-functional alignment across product, engineering, and partner organizations.
- Ability to move quickly in rapidly changing environments.
About the job
Google's software engineers develop the next-generation technologies that change how billions of users connect, explore, and interact with information and one another. Our products need to handle information at massive scale, and extend well beyond web search. We're looking for engineers who bring fresh ideas from all areas, including information retrieval, distributed computing, large-scale system design, networking and data storage, security, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, UI design and mobile; the list goes on and is growing every day. As a software engineer, you will work on a specific project critical to Google’s needs with opportunities to switch teams and projects as you and our fast-paced business grow and evolve. We need our engineers to be versatile, display leadership qualities and be enthusiastic to take on new problems across the full-stack as we continue to push technology forward.
With your technical expertise you will manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables. You will design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance software solutions.
"The Google Commerce team is driving the shift toward agentic commerce—moving beyond static interactions to build intelligent, adaptive shopping experiences. By bringing Gemini into AI Mode in Search and the Gemini app, we're making shopping even more intuitive. Powered by the Google Shopping Graph's 60B+ listings, our team is helping to establish open industry standards like the Universal Commerce Protocol. We're building shopping experiences across Google, including Search, the Gemini app, YouTube, and Ads, to help people discover and buy products from the brands they love and trust on Google.
Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.US: $207000 - $300000 (USD) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits
Learn more about benefits at Google.
Responsibilities
- Drive technical strategy and quality improvements across Shopping GenAI surfaces for visual actionable entities, prioritizing triggering, completeness, and product/offer quality.
- Design and deploy feature enhancements by utilizing prompt optimization, entity annotation, and novel grounding strategies to improve actionable entity quality.
- Analyze performance gaps through rigorous loss analysis, collaborating with cross-functional partners to identify and implement solutions across the Gemini & Shopping stack.
- Contribute to architectural improvements by applying model and infrastructure advances to ensure actionable entities perform reliably and effectively.
- Collaborate across engineering teams—including Consumer Shopping, Merchant, and GDM—to resolve GenAI feature, Shopping Graph data, policy, and retrieval issues.
Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Pittsburgh, PA, USA; New York, NY, USA.
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 8 years of experience in software development.
- 5 years of experience with ML design and end-to-end machine learning (e.g., model deployment, model evaluation, data processing, debugging).
- 5 years of experience with one or more of the following: Speech/audio (e.g., technology duplicating and responding to the human voice), reinforcement learning (e.g., sequential decision making), ML infrastructure, or specialization in another ML field.
- Experience applying machine learning techniques to search ranking performance and information retrieval systems.
- Experience building recommendation systems to provide user-specific item or content suggestions.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience solving open-ended quality problems, identifying systemic gaps, and driving root-cause analysis to resolve them.
- Experience building user-facing AI features.
- Experience designing system architecture and AI/ML-powered solutions.
- Experience defining long-term technical vision and establishing roadmaps for problem spaces.
- Ability to drive cross-functional alignment across product, engineering, and partner organizations.
- Ability to move quickly in rapidly changing environments.
About the job
Google's software engineers develop the next-generation technologies that change how billions of users connect, explore, and interact with information and one another. Our products need to handle information at massive scale, and extend well beyond web search. We're looking for engineers who bring fresh ideas from all areas, including information retrieval, distributed computing, large-scale system design, networking and data storage, security, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, UI design and mobile; the list goes on and is growing every day. As a software engineer, you will work on a specific project critical to Google’s needs with opportunities to switch teams and projects as you and our fast-paced business grow and evolve. We need our engineers to be versatile, display leadership qualities and be enthusiastic to take on new problems across the full-stack as we continue to push technology forward.
With your technical expertise you will manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables. You will design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance software solutions.
"The Google Commerce team is driving the shift toward agentic commerce—moving beyond static interactions to build intelligent, adaptive shopping experiences. By bringing Gemini into AI Mode in Search and the Gemini app, we're making shopping even more intuitive. Powered by the Google Shopping Graph's 60B+ listings, our team is helping to establish open industry standards like the Universal Commerce Protocol. We're building shopping experiences across Google, including Search, the Gemini app, YouTube, and Ads, to help people discover and buy products from the brands they love and trust on Google.
Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.US: $207000 - $300000 (USD) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits
Learn more about benefits at Google.
Responsibilities
- Drive technical strategy and quality improvements across Shopping GenAI surfaces for visual actionable entities, prioritizing triggering, completeness, and product/offer quality.
- Design and deploy feature enhancements by utilizing prompt optimization, entity annotation, and novel grounding strategies to improve actionable entity quality.
- Analyze performance gaps through rigorous loss analysis, collaborating with cross-functional partners to identify and implement solutions across the Gemini & Shopping stack.
- Contribute to architectural improvements by applying model and infrastructure advances to ensure actionable entities perform reliably and effectively.
- Collaborate across engineering teams—including Consumer Shopping, Merchant, and GDM—to resolve GenAI feature, Shopping Graph data, policy, and retrieval issues.
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Who's Hiring
Top Industries Hiring
- Technology & Software
- Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
- Electronics & Hardware
- Artificial Intelligence
- Consulting & Professional Services
What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in staff quality engineer jobs.
- 5 or more years of software quality engineering or test automation experience
- Proficiency in at least one test automation framework such as Selenium, Cypress, or pytest
- Experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines with tools like Jenkins or GitHub Actions
- Strong understanding of SDLC methodologies including Agile and Scrum
- Experience defining or leading quality strategy across one or more product teams
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or a related technical field
Tips for Your Staff Quality Engineer Job Search
Tailor your resume to testing frameworks
Staff-level roles expect fluency with specific frameworks like Selenium, pytest, or TestNG. List the exact tools you've used by name, not just 'test automation experience,' so your resume clears keyword filters hiring managers set for senior openings.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists staff quality engineer openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Highlight ownership of quality strategy
Staff-level postings consistently ask for candidates who have defined QA processes, not just executed them. Describe a time you built or overhauled a test strategy from the ground up, naming the scope, the team you influenced, and the measurable outcome.
Filter openings by product stage
Quality engineering work looks very different at a company shipping its first product versus one with a mature CI/CD pipeline. Identify which stage suits your background and use that as a filter when scanning descriptions, not just the job title.
Prepare a system design answer for quality
Many staff-level interviews include a whiteboard or verbal exercise where you design a test infrastructure from scratch. Practice walking through coverage strategy, toolchain selection, and trade-offs out loud before your first screen.
Negotiate scope alongside compensation
At the staff level, what you own matters as much as pay. When an offer arrives, ask specifically which products or teams fall under your quality purview, whether you have headcount influence, and what the roadmap looks like for the quality org.
Staff Quality Engineer Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most staff quality engineers?
The companies hiring the most staff quality engineers right now include Google, Stryker, and Lockheed Martin, with the largest share of openings in California, Texas, and New Jersey, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Demand is especially concentrated in companies scaling their platform or infrastructure teams.
How many staff quality engineer jobs are remote?
About 29% of staff quality engineer openings are fully remote or hybrid as of November 2026, reflecting the role's heavy reliance on code-based tooling rather than on-site hardware. Test automation, quality platform, and developer-experience-focused roles are the most likely to be posted as fully remote.
How do you become a staff quality engineer?
Start by building deep expertise in at least one test automation framework and contributing to CI/CD pipelines in a mid-level quality or software engineering role. From there, take on cross-team initiatives, like defining a coverage standard or migrating a legacy test suite, to demonstrate strategic ownership. Staff-level roles reward engineers who can articulate quality trade-offs and influence product decisions, not just write tests.
Can you get a staff quality engineer job with limited experience?
Breaking into a staff-level role directly with limited experience is rare, but you can accelerate your path by contributing to open source testing frameworks, publishing documented case studies of test infrastructure you've built, and targeting smaller or early-stage companies where the quality function is less structured. Demonstrating that you think at the system level, not just the test case level, is what separates candidates who get callbacks.
What does the staff quality engineer interview process look like?
Most processes include an initial recruiter screen, a technical phone interview covering automation fundamentals and tool choices, and a system design round where you're asked to architect a test infrastructure or quality strategy. Later rounds often involve cross-functional interviews with product managers or engineering leads to assess how you influence quality culture. A take-home coding exercise focused on a real-world testing problem is common at some companies.
Where can I find and apply to staff quality engineer jobs?
You can find and apply to staff quality engineer jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from across the United States. Search for roles that match your experience level, specialization, and preferred work arrangement, then apply directly to each listing that fits.
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