Sr. Quality Engineer – AI & Machine Learning Models

Position : Sr. Quality Engineer – AI & Machine Learning Models (Computer Vision Focused)

Location : Irvine, CA

Duration : 6 Months

Job Type : Contract

Work Type : Hybrid (could be considered)

Pay rate : $ 55-55.00 / Hourly

Overview :

TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide. This Client is mission is to discover and deliver innovation medicines and solutions that address complex health issues and enhance people’s lives.

Job Description :

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior QA Engineer with a specialized focus on testing machine learning (ML) models. The ideal candidate will play a critical role in ensuring the quality, reliability, and performance of our ML-driven applications. You will collaborate with data scientists, developers, and product managers to design and implement test strategies for ML models, ensuring they meet functional and performance requirements.

Key Responsibilities :

• Proven ability to collaborate effectively with multi-disciplinary teams in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
• Identify, document, and track defects and inconsistencies in ML models and provide detailed, actionable feedback to data science and engineering teams for resolution.
• Design and implement comprehensive testing strategies for ML models, ensuring reproducibility and accuracy.
• Develop automated testing frameworks to validate ML pipelines, including data preprocessing, model training, inference, and deployment.
• Conduct functional, stress, adversarial, and robustness testing of computer vision models.
• Evaluate model fairness, bias, and explainability, ensuring compliance with ethical AI guidelines.
• Develop benchmark datasets and synthetic test cases for edge cases, adversarial examples, and domain shifts.
• Monitor and validate model performance across different environments, hardware accelerators (GPU, TPU), and cloud platforms.
• Work with data engineers to ensure the integrity and quality of training data.
• Implement CI / CD testing pipelines for machine learning models to enable continuous integration and monitoring.
• Investigate and troubleshoot performance issues related to inference speed, memory consumption, and accuracy degradation.
• Document test methodologies, findings, and improvement recommendations for ML workflows.

Qualifications & Skills :

TekWissen® Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.

Salary : $55