Staff Software Engineer, Quality Engineering

WHO WE ARE GridUnity is the industry leader in interconnection life cycle management, delivering cutting-edge software solutions that eliminate bottlenecks in the interconnection process and accelerate the transition to a more affordable, sustainable, and resilient energy future. Our Mission We unite all grid interconnection stakeholders on a single platform that converts centralized data into actionable intelligence and accelerates the transition to a reliable, sustainable, and cost-efficient electric grid. GridUnity is a trusted partner to leading utilities, grid operators, and policymakers. Our technology solutions tackle the interconnection queue backlog by significantly reducing processing times. Whether cutting transmission interconnection timelines from years to months or enabling distribution applications to be processed within a day, we help accelerate energy projects at every scale. Our Vision Energizing the planet with a faster, smarter, and more sustainable grid. WHAT YOU'LL DO As the Staff Software Engineer, Quality Engineering, you will own and lead GridUnity's quality engineering strategy. GridUnity engineering operates on an AI-native, artifact-first development model: AI agents draft tests, run executions, and write automation, while humans arbitrate evidence, own release verdicts, and continuously calibrate agent judgment. Version one of that quality system is live today for our flagship product line: agents draft manual tests from feature specs and stories through a gated workflow with documented why-manual criteria; QA reviews and activates them; releases run through evidence-backed gates in our test-management system of record; and a quality operations console harvests it all nightly. You will take ownership of that system, make it hold under real delivery pressure, and scale it across every product line. This is not a traditional QA role, and it is not a traditional test-automation role either. You will serve as a technical leader, architect, and change agent who makes quality a property of the engineering system itself: honest release gates, a defensible (and deliberately shrinking) catalog of human-judgment testing, and evaluation mechanisms that tell us exactly where human attention is needed. The mechanisms exist; the discipline is young. Some of the hardest parts - keeping review throughput inside its SLA, making gates stick under deadline pressure, retiring manual tests as automation catches up - are exactly where you will earn your impact. Reporting within Engineering Operations, you'll partner closely with Product Engineering, Platform Engineering, and DevOps to improve release confidence while accelerating delivery. You will: - Own the quality operating model - currently live for our flagship product line - and lead its expansion across the organization's product lines, evolving the technical vision and roadmap as it scales. - Operate and harden the pipeline in which agents generate, maintain, and execute test coverage - API, UI, integration, contract, performance, and end-to-end - directly from feature specs and scenario contracts, with human review and activation workflows that keep the coverage trustworthy. - Run the review-and-activation loop: drafts arrive continuously from engineers, product, and agents, and the review SLA is a promise to the whole organization - you keep throughput honest and the draft queue moving. - Own the release-gate discipline: execution records as evidence, explicit exit criteria, named waivers, evidence-backed sign-off, and escalation paths. The gate mechanics are built; making them hold under deadline pressure - every release, no silent exceptions - is the job. - Steward the criteria for what remains human-tested, and stand up the demotion loop that retires manual tests as automation capability catches up - a shrinking manual catalog is a success metric, not a loss. The first demotion pass will be yours to run. - Build the evaluation discipline for agent-driven q…