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Quality Control Lead

AfterQuery· Operations
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San Francisco$150k - $275kFull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Quality Control Lead responsible for the final checkpoint between raw data and delivered product, owning quality metrics, coaching contributors, and automating QC processes at AfterQuery.

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.

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

Skills

Required:Quality assurance / quality controlProgrammingCommunication

Benefits

  • Health Insurance: Medical, Vision, Dental
Last updated Oct 7, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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AfterQuery is an applied research lab curating data solutions to accelerate foundation model development.

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