Lead AI Software Engineer

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Austin, TX, USA
In-Office
Senior level
Artificial Intelligence • Cloud • Information Technology • Software
The Role
Lead and mentor teams to implement AI solutions, providing architectural guidance and ensuring high technical standards, while driving continuous improvement in engineering practices.
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Lead AI Software Engineer
Austin, Texas (Hybrid)
About Tricentis
Tricentis is a global leader in AI-driven, codeless software testing and quality engineering, empowering enterprises to accelerate digital transformation while reducing risk. Trusted by over 3,000 customers—including organizations like T-Mobile and Allianz—Tricentis delivers innovative solutions such as Tosca, qTest, Testim, and SAP Test Automation to enable continuous, intelligent testing at scale.
Our mission is to redefine how software quality is achieved by leveraging AI, model-based testing, and codeless automation to make testing faster, smarter, and more accessible.
About the Role
We are looking for a Lead AI Engineer to drive the next generation of AI-powered testing and quality engineering solutions across the Tricentis product portfolio. In this role, you will help shape how AI transforms software testing—from intelligent test generation and impact analysis to autonomous validation systems.
You’ll act as both a technical leader and hands-on builder, working across teams to deliver scalable AI systems embedded into products like Tosca, qTest, and Testim.
Key Responsibilities
Technical Leadership & Team Enablement
  • Serve as the technical lead for AI-focused engineering initiatives, setting direction and ensuring excellence across teams.
  • Guide the architecture and development of AI-driven testing capabilities, including codeless automation and intelligent test generation.
  • Mentor engineers through design reviews, coaching, and hands-on technical leadership.
  • Drive engineering decisions balancing innovation, performance, cost, scalability, and customer value.
  • Collaborate with Product Management and Design to translate customer needs into AI-powered features.
  • Lead internal knowledge sharing around AI in quality engineering, LLM applications, and automation frameworks.
  • Identify team capability gaps and support hiring, onboarding, and skill development.
AI Architecture, Implementation & Quality
  • Design and deploy LLM-powered solutions for use cases such as:
    • Natural language test creation (qTest-like capabilities)
    • Test impact analysis and intelligent prioritization
    • Autonomous test maintenance and self-healing automation
  • Build scalable systems supporting model-based testing and codeless automation frameworks.
  • Lead experimentation efforts to rapidly validate new AI-driven testing approaches.
  • Define and standardize testing strategies for AI systems, including:
    • Model evaluation and benchmarking
    • Regression detection for AI behaviors
    • Reliability and explainability validation
  • Ensure high-quality implementation through code reviews, architectural alignment, and best practices.
  • Partner with domain experts in enterprise ecosystems (e.g., SAP) to optimize testing solutions for complex business applications.
  • Drive improvements in DevOps integration and continuous testing pipelines.
Required Qualifications
Technical Expertise
  • 6+ years of demonstrated work experience building production-grade software using Python.
  • 3+ years of experience designing and deploying AI/ML or LLM-based solutions in production.
  • Hands-on experience with AI coding assistants (GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code, etc.).
  • Strong knowledge of:
    • Generative AI and LLM ecosystems
    • Agent-based systems (A2A) and orchestration frameworks
    • Emerging standards such as Model Context Protocol (MCP)
  • Proven track record of delivering systems that balance innovation with reliability and maintainability.
Production & Platform Experience
  • Deep expertise in software engineering best practices, including:
    • Architecture patterns and distributed systems
    • CI/CD and DevOps integration (especially in continuous testing contexts)
    • Automated testing strategies and quality engineering principles
  • Experience building and scaling data pipelines and AI-powered platforms.
  • Familiarity with enterprise application ecosystems (e.g., SAP, Oracle, Salesforce) is a plus.
  • Strong understanding of security, privacy, and compliance in AI-driven systems.
  • Experience with containers and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
  • Ability to troubleshoot complex AI production issues, especially in large-scale enterprise environments.
  • Experience with cloud platforms (Azure preferred, AWS/GCP acceptable).
Communication & Influence
  • Excellent communication skills with the ability to explain AI concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Comfortable acting as the technical voice in cross-functional and customer-facing conversations.
  • Proven ability to align teams and influence without authority.
  • Strong collaborator across engineering, product, and customer success teams.
Preferred Qualifications
  • Experience in test automation, QA engineering, or quality platforms.
  • Familiarity with model-based testing and codeless automation paradigms.
  • Experience with:
    • Vector databases and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)
    • AI evaluation and observability frameworks
    • Test management platforms (e.g., Jira integrations)
  • Background working on enterprise SaaS platforms.
  • Exposure to AI-driven DevOps or continuous testing ecosystems.
Why Join Tricentis
  • Shape the future of AI-powered software quality engineering.
  • Work on industry-leading products used by global enterprises.
  • Drive innovation in codeless automation and continuous testing.
  • Collaborate with a talented, mission-driven team redefining QA through AI.
  • Competitive compensation, benefits, and career growth opportunities.
Our Impact
At Tricentis, your work directly helps organizations release software faster, reduce risk, and improve customer experiences—all powered by cutting-edge AI innovation.

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Tricentis is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ethnicity, gender, religious affiliation, age, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, or physical and mental disability and other statuses protected by law.
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We comply with all applicable global sanctions and export control laws. Candidates must not be listed on any government restricted party lists (including OFAC SDN List and U.S. Commerce Department restricted lists) and must certify that their employment would not violate any sanctions or export control regulations. Candidates must notify us of any changes to their status during the application process or subsequent employment.

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This role is not eligible for employer-sponsored work visas. Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S. without current or future sponsorship.
 

Skills Required

  • 6+ years of experience with Python in production environments
  • 3+ years of experience designing, deploying, and operating language model-based solutions in production
  • Strong experience utilizing AI coding Assistants in daily workflow
  • Working knowledge of emerging AI technologies
  • Proven ability to develop systems that balance innovation with reliability and maintainability
  • Expert-level understanding of software engineering best practices
  • Experience designing and operating data pipelines and data management systems at scale
  • Strong understanding of security, privacy, and compliance considerations in AI-enabled systems
  • Extensive experience with containers and orchestration in production environments
  • Ability to diagnose and resolve complex production issues involving AI systems
  • Exceptional ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly
  • Ability to influence without authority and align the team around a shared technical vision

Tricentis Compensation & Benefits Highlights

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  • Fair & Transparent Compensation Pay is considered competitive in some roles and markets, with strong total compensation reported for certain U.S. technical and go-to-market positions. On-target earnings for some sales roles are described as high when performance aligns with plan expectations.
  • Healthcare Strength Health insurance is described as a notable strength, with plan availability including an HSA-compatible high-deductible option alongside a traditional plan. Bonus programs are often cited alongside health coverage as meaningful parts of the overall rewards package.
  • Flexible Benefits Work-from-home and flex time are presented as broadly available, supporting day-to-day flexibility as part of the benefits experience. This flexibility is frequently bundled with other core benefits as a differentiating aspect of the total package.

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The Company
Atlanta, GA
1,154 Employees
Year Founded: 2007

What We Do

Tricentis is the global leader in enterprise continuous testing, widely credited for reinventing software testing for DevOps, cloud, and enterprise applications. The Tricentis AI-powered, continuous testing platform provides a new and fundamentally different way to perform software testing. An approach that’s totally automated, fully codeless, and intelligently driven by AI. It addresses both agile development and complex enterprise apps, enabling enterprises to accelerate their digital transformation by dramatically increasing software release speed, reducing costs, and improving software quality. Tricentis has been widely recognized as the leader by all major industry analysts, including being named the leader in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant five years in a row. Tricentis has more than 1,800 customers, including the largest brands in the world, such as McKesson, Accenture, Nationwide Insurance, Allianz, Telstra, Moet-Hennessy-Louis Vuitton, and Vodafone.

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