Role Description
As the AI Quality Lead for the Artificial Intelligence Center of Excellence (AI CoE), you will architect and drive the end-to-end AI Quality program from inception. This is a hands-on leadership role, requiring both strategic vision and technical depth to go from 0โ1 in AI Quality at Alight.
Responsibilities
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Design and implement the unified AI Quality strategy and SOP, scaling controls by risk tier (Tier 1โ3)
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Define and own success metrics, risk tiering, acceptance criteria, and operating thresholds for AI solutions
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Lead the development of golden/adversarial test suites (prompt injection, misuse, safety, bias, functional automation)
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Oversee the creation and maintenance of schema-level UI/API tests, agent contracts, and observability instrumentation
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Own the org-wide evaluation harnesses (e.g., promptfoo, TruLens, Ragas), CI gating, and red-team playbooks
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Manage independent spot checks, factsheets, registry entries, and evidence for governance and audit
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Collaborate with Product Owners, Developers, SRE/Observability, and Governance to ensure compliance and operational excellence
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Drive continuous improvement in fairness, explainability, safety, security, and operational SLOs
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Mentor and grow the AI Quality team, including onboarding and coaching junior engineers
Qualifications
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Experience with LLM, RAG, agentic, or classic ML systems
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Familiarity with test automation frameworks, CI/CD pipelines, and evaluation tools (promptfoo, TruLens, Ragas)
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Knowledge of fairness, explainability, safety, and security standards (e.g., OWASP Top 10, MITRE ATLAS, Fairlearn, AIF360)
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Experience with data integrity, lineage, and observability (OpenTelemetry, New Relic, OpenLineage)
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Familiarity with AI infrastructure, orchestration, data integrity, deployments, and model registry practices
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Knowledge of international standards and regulatory frameworks for Responsible AI
Requirements
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Experience leading or building quality engineering or testing programs (AI/ML experience is a plus, but not required)
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Ability to design and implement test strategies, automation frameworks, and quality standards
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Excellent communication and leadership skills; ability to work cross-functionally and influence stakeholders
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Bachelorโs or Masterโs degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, or related field, or equivalent experience
Benefits
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Programs and plans for a healthy mind, body, wallet, and life
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Variety of health coverage options
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Wellbeing and support programs
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Retirement plans
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Vacation and sick leave
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Maternity, paternity & adoption leave
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Continuing education and training
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Voluntary benefit options