About the role
About Code Metal Code Metal is redefining code translation for mission-critical industries, helping defense partners move more quickly and reliably from algorithm to silicon. Our platform accelerates deployment of DSP, RF, communications, and embedded signal processing algorithms onto heterogeneous compute targets, including GPUs, FPGAs, ASICs, and edge SoCs. We also support automotive, aerospace, and semiconductor partners deploying complex algorithms onto constrained hardware with speed and rigor. This is the first dedicated quality engineering leader at Code Metal. You'll define what "quality" means here, build
the team and tooling to enforce it, and partner with engineering, product, and customer success to bake verification into how we ship rather than bolting it on at the end.
About
the role You'll start hands-on — designing test strategy, picking the tooling, writing the first cohort of frameworks alongside
the team — and grow into a true functional leader as the organization scales. If you've ever wanted to design a quality program from a blank page, with executive buy-in and a team that actually cares about engineering rigor, this is that role.
Responsibilities: Define and own Code Metal's quality engineering strategy across functional, integration, performance, load, and reliability testing. Build and lead the Quality Engineering team — hire, mentor, and grow QE / SDET and test infrastructure engineers. Stand up the test automation platform: CI/CD test orchestration, ephemeral test environments, end-to-end regression suites, performance benchmarks, and chaos / fault-injection tooling. Drive a "shift-left" culture: code coverage gates, static analysis, contract tests, design-for-testability reviews, and developer-friendly tooling that makes the right thing the easy thing. Own release-readiness criteria. Be the person who can credibly say "this build is ready to ship" — and hold the line when it isn't. Establish engineering quality metrics that measure test effectiveness, release readiness, automation coverage, test reliability, performance stability, and customer-reported defect trends, while integrating and operationalizing the validation frameworks developed by the research teams. Partner with infrastructure / platform teams on production observability so quality signals don't stop at the deploy boundary. Work with engineering leadership and security to implement quality processes that support ISO 27001, including test evidence, release controls, change management, documentation, and audit readiness. Required
