Transparent Search Group Member of Technical Staff, Head of Quality San Francisco, California, United States $180K–$280K View role
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San Francisco, CA · Posted September 23, 2026
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About the job
Company: Confidential - Venture-backed AI research lab
Location: San Francisco, CA (SoMa office, 5 days per week)
Compensation: $180,000 - $280,000 + competitive equity
Employment Type: Full-time
Visa Sponsorship: Visa transfers (OPT, H-1B transfer)
About the Company
An applied research lab building infrastructure that turns real-world data into simulated environments for training specialized AI agents, supporting frontier labs and enterprises.
The Role
Our client is hiring a Head of Quality (1-5 years) to own the quality bar for every environment and dataset it delivers, and to build the systems and team that enforce it at scale. This is hands-on: you will be deep in the data reviewing samples, building automated QA, and making sure what ships produces real learning signal. You will also hire and lead the QA team as the company scales.
What You Will Do
Review human data and environment outputs hands-on to keep quality extremely high.
Build automated evaluation, QA agents and grading systems that catch reward hacking, broken verifiers and distribution mismatches before delivery.
Define quality metrics and acceptance criteria for environments, tasks, verifiers, rewards and datasets.
Own delivery acceptance for engagements with frontier labs, hyperscalers and enterprises.
Hire, onboard and manage QA engineers and reviewers.
What You Bring
1-5 years of experience in ML, RL, data quality or evaluation
Understanding of what a dataset actually teaches a model, beyond checklists
Experience building automated QA or evaluation systems
Ability to work in the San Francisco office 5 days a week
Tech Stack
Machine learning, reinforcement learning, LLMs, data quality, QA automation, evaluation frameworks