Principal Engineer, AI Native Quality & Safety

About the Role

At Workiva , we build and scale an enterprise platform that powers complex financial reporting, compliance, and collaboration for some of the world’s largest organizations. We solve for high-throughput data, strict consistency, and architectural scale while exploring what AI can do to transform how engineering teams work. We are not simply adding AI to existing workflows. We are redesigning how engineering gets done. As agents take on more of the work, the human review steps that once caught problems are going away. AI failures often happen when nothing breaks: the model does exactly what it was asked, and the result is still wrong. That makes safety a control problem, not a prediction problem. We are hiring a Principal Software Engineer to lead quality and safety for AI-native delivery. Our standard is quality through systems, not heroics, so the safe path is the easy path and higher velocity never means higher production risk. This is a hands-on role for someone who can define strategy, propose original solutions, and raise the technical bar for the teams around them. What You’ll Do Deliver outcomes Partner with engineering, platform, InfoSec, SRE, and Compliance teams to build layered safety controls, so systems stay safe even when multiple safeguards fail. Build pre-production verification, including evals, invariant tests, and risk-based test selection under a non-skippable invariant floor. Build automated safety valves into development and delivery, so safety does not depend on slow human review. Define and drive technical strategy Lead the “Ratify Continuously, Expose Deliberately” model: continuous shadow soak, ratified releases, and deliberate per-tenant exposure. Define the invariants our systems must never violate, and design controls that make those states unreachable. Build Agentic Systems to remove CI bottlenecks by quarantining flaky tests and moving full suites to nightly runs. Frame ambiguous safety problems and propose original a

Requirements & Qualifications

• Strong problem solving foundations, knowledge of modern engineering practices, and interest in technology systems.

Perks & Benefits

• Official mentor support
• verified hiring timeline
• and career progression.