Model Test and Measurement Engineer

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DEFCON AIAI analytics
Remote, USAFull-TimeSenior
Salary$150,000–$190,000
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Job Details

Experience
5+ years with model validation as a named responsibility, not a side task
Required Skills
PythonSQL

Requirements

  • Have 5+ years of experience with model validation as a named responsibility, not a side task.
  • Have direct experience with ground-truth construction and sampling design.
  • Have strong Python skills.
  • Have strong SQL skills.
  • Be able to work independently from the teams whose models you evaluate.
  • Be a US citizen.
  • Hold an active US Secret clearance.
  • Regulated-industry or government model-risk background is preferred.
  • Experience with fairness or disparate-effect testing and human-oversight documentation is preferred.
  • NIST AI RMF or comparable practice is preferred.
  • An active Top Secret clearance is preferred.

Responsibilities

  • Construct labeled ground-truth datasets for model evaluation.
  • Design and run sampled audits, including evaluation-phase quality control and fair comparisons across methods or searched sources.
  • Gate releases against model versions and maintain version inventories, evaluation records, and rollback triggers.
  • Review model drift and overrides.
  • Produce human-oversight and fairness or disparate-effect evidence.
  • Measure workflow improvement using review time, throughput, backlog movement, and override and rework rates.
  • Define the measurement events other teams must emit and confirm the review workspace records workflow events from first use.
  • Maintain independence from model-building roles and do not approve thresholds or authorize releases based on your own evidence.
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