Quality Control Lead

AfterQuery

$110K — $130K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 3+ years in a technical role (software engineering, data science, ML engineering, etc.)
  • Proven experience in reviewing and debugging code and data for quality assurance
  • Experience building or leading a QA/QC function for a technical or data-centric product
  • High attention to detail and ability to judge technical content
  • Strong leadership and communication skills for district teams
  • Highly autonomous and effective in fast-paced, ambiguous settings
  • Passion for AI and entrepreneurial mindset

Responsibilities

  • Conduct final quality reviews before dataset delivery and publication
  • Collaborate with engineers to automate and enhance QC workflows
  • Work with data delivery teams to identify and address systemic quality issues
  • Own quality metrics and KPIs, reporting to leadership on trends and root causes
  • Contribute to company-wide initiatives in building and executing projects

Benefits

  • Health Insurance: Medical, Vision, Dental
  • 401(k) with Employer Match
  • Daily UberEats Stipend for meals
  • Monthly Wellness Stipend
  • Commute costs covered
Full Job Description
Key Responsibilities

Final Quality Review: Own the last quality checkpoint before datasets are delivered or published, auditing outputs (including code, technical, and reasoning data) for correctness, clarity, structure, and adherence to spec.

QC Process & Tooling: Work with infrastructure engineers to continuously automate and improve QC workflows

Cross-Functional Feedback Loop: Partner with data delivery teams to identify systemic quality issues, feed corrections back into contributor training, and prevent recurrence.

Metrics & Reporting: Own quality metrics and KPIs, reporting on error rates, root causes, and improvement trends to company leadership.

Operational Support: Contribute to company-wide initiatives across building, analysis, coordination, and execution as AfterQuery scales.
Required Qualifications
  • 3+ years of experience in a technical role (software engineering, data science, ML engineering, or similar) with hands-on proficiency in at least one modern programming language
  • Proven ability to review, debug, and evaluate both code and technical data and knowledge work data for correctness, structure, and quality; demonstrated rigor in reviewing others' work
  • Experience building or leading a quality assurance/quality control function, ideally for a technical or data-centric product
  • Extremely high attention to detail and comfort making judgment calls on ambiguous or contested technical content
  • Strong leadership and communication skills; able to translate technical quality issues into clear, actionable feedback across a distributed team
  • High agency and strong work ethic; comfort operating with minimal direction in ambiguous, fast-moving environments
  • Genuine passion for AI and an entrepreneurial inclination
  • Demonstrated competitive success
Preferred Qualifications
  • Experience in AI training data, RLHF, or data-annotation quality assurance
  • Background reviewing datasets across multiple domains (code, reasoning, knowledge work)
  • Experience designing rubrics, grading criteria, or automated quality-check tooling/scripts
  • Familiarity with Claude Code or similar AI-assisted workflow tools
  • Computer science degree or equivalent hands-on engineering background
Company Benefits (For Eligible Employees):
  • Health Insurance: Medical, Vision, Dental
  • 401(k) with Employer Match
  • Daily Meals: Daily UberEats Stipend
  • Monthly Wellness Stipend
  • Commute Covered

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