Senior Data Scientist AI Evaluation

2 hours, 9 minutes ago
Remote
Full-time
Senior
Data Science and Analytics
Alpaca

Alpaca

Alpaca is a developer-first API for stock and crypto trading, offering easy-to-use APIs for building apps and trading algorithms.

Capital Markets
51-250
Founded 2015
$87M raised

Description

  • Define ground truth, metrics, and scoring methods for AI models and agents.
  • Build repeatable evaluation loops to monitor quality and detect regressions before release.
  • Partner with engineering and analytics engineering to operationalize evaluation harnesses.
  • Translate evaluation results into actionable system-improvement recommendations.
  • Establish evaluation guidelines, documentation, quality standards, and review practices.
  • Mentor teams and promote measurable AI-quality practices across the organization.
  • Collaborate with Product, Engineering, Analytics Engineering, and business stakeholders to define quality criteria.

Requirements

  • 6–10 years of experience in quantitative data science or machine learning, with focused experience in measurement or evaluation.
  • Strong statistical and machine-learning foundation, including sample sizing, confidence intervals, significance testing, and non-determinism handling.
  • Experience validating automated graders against human ground truth.
  • Proficiency in Python and SQL.
  • Experience evaluating models in production environments.
  • Strong judgment in defining quality metrics and ground truth for ambiguous outputs.
  • Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.
  • Strong problem-solving ability in fast-paced, greenfield environments.
  • Quantitative degree or equivalent industry experience.
  • Experience with production LLM or agent evaluation, eval harnesses, LLM-as-judge calibration, and CI regression gates preferred.
  • Experience evaluating text-to-SQL, analytics agents, or systems with data-verifiable correctness preferred.
  • Fintech, brokerage, or other high-consequence domain experience preferred.

Benefits

  • Competitive salary and stock options.
  • Health benefits.
  • One-time $500 new-hire home-office setup allowance.
  • $150 monthly stipend via a Brex Card.
  • Globally distributed work environment.

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