AI Quality and Evaluation Lead
Role Overview
Lead evaluation strategy, quality standards, release gates, guardrails, and monitoring across First National AI Factory solutions.
Set measurable acceptance criteria that reflect business policy, risk appetite, user expectations, and production evidence.
Begin with residential underwriting use cases and help build a scalable quality capability across product squads.
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Lead evaluation strategy, quality standards, release gates, guardrails, and monitoring across First National AI Factory solutions.
Set measurable acceptance criteria that reflect business policy, risk appetite, user expectations, and production evidence.
Begin with residential underwriting use cases and help build a scalable quality capability across product squads.
Evaluation and release readiness
- Own risk tiers, metrics, thresholds, representative test suites, release evidence, monitoring expectations, and continuous improvement.
- Define use-case measures with product, underwriting, engineering, QA, risk, compliance, and security partners.
- Own methods for evaluation harnesses, golden datasets, adversarial and regression tests, human review, and automated scoring.
- Establish production quality gates, including UAT evidence, performance thresholds, guardrail validation, privacy and access checks, rollback criteria, kill-switch readiness, runbooks, and approvals.
Risk, monitoring, and quality operations
- Test for prompt injection, data leakage, unsupported claims, policy deviations, tool misuse, unsafe write-back, inappropriate automation, and model degradation.
- Monitor evaluation results, model and prompt versions, drift, latency, user feedback, exceptions, overrides, incidents, and platform costs.
- Create defect taxonomies and root-cause practices and work with product and engineering teams on durable fixes.
- Scale reusable scorecards, automated continuous evaluation, squad QA practices, analyst oversight, benchmarking, and audit-ready evidence.
Experience and qualifications
- Requires a relevant bachelor’s degree and 7+ years of progressive experience in a relevant technical, quality, data, AI governance, or risk discipline.
- Requires production AI or generative AI evaluation framework and release-criteria experience, including RAG, document intelligence, agents, observability, and human-in-the-loop controls.
- Requires Python, SQL, test automation, data analysis, statistical methods, evaluation tools, quality metrics, regression testing, drift monitoring, and risk-control knowledge.
- Requires ability to translate policy and risk appetite into measurable criteria and communicate trade-offs to technical and business stakeholders.
- Quality capability scaling, reusable standards, automated assets, monitoring, coaching, and leadership experience are required; model or credit risk exposure is an asset.
- Financial services, mortgage, lending, servicing, broker-channel, third-party partnership, or regulated technology experience is preferred.
Working environment
- Office environment with periods of high volume and tight timelines.
- Work includes prolonged sitting, repetitive keyboard and mouse use, screen viewing, and multitasking.
Team and relationships
Works within the AI Platform Squad while maintaining assessment independence from the delivery teams whose work it gates.
First National is a Canadian non-bank lender providing residential mortgages through the broker channel and commercial mortgage lending.
Hours
- Hours of work are 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Benefits and development
- The posting cites competitive compensation, benefits, training, a modern office, teamwork, and social and community events.
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