Principal Test AI Engineer

Company: IDBS
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Location: Woking
Job Description:

Principal AI Test Engineer plays a critical role in shaping and advancing IDBS’s AI test strategy across our engineering organization.

Responsibilities

  • AI Quality Strategy & Governance: Own and define end-to-end testing strategy for AI/ML systems, establishing standards for model quality, robustness, fairness, explainability, and regulatory compliance across the organization.
  • Advanced Validation & Risk Assessment: Design and lead sophisticated validation approaches for AI models and data pipelines, including bias detection, drift monitoring, adversarial testing, and failure‑mode analysis in production environments.
  • Test Architecture & Automation Leadership: Architect scalable, automated test frameworks for AI systems (models, data, pipelines, and integrations), leveraging MLOps, CI/CD, synthetic data, and observability tooling.
  • Technical Leadership & Mentorship: Act as the subject‑matter expert for AI testing, mentoring engineers, influencing engineering best practices, and partnering closely with data science, platform, legal, and product teams.
  • Stakeholder Influence & Continuous Improvement: Translate complex AI risks and quality metrics into clear insights for senior stakeholders, shaping product decisions and continuously improving AI quality, reliability, and trustworthiness at scale.

Success in This Role Looks Like

  • High-quality level of testing of our AI systems, within specific teams and then across the organization.
  • AI applications that are consistent, robust, fair, explainable and observable, delivering results customers expect.
  • Test outcomes that are transparent, highly visible, immediately available, and acted on, integrated into the SDLC and automated release process.
  • Continued expansion and excellence in the breadth, depth, and quality of our AI product portfolio.
  • Full confidence from the wider organization and customers in our AI products and the results they produce.

Preferred Experience

  • Testing AI/ML systems is a must.
  • Automating AI testing and a good knowledge of other testing forms and working in an Agile environment.
  • A background in influencing standards and practices across multiple teams without direct line management responsibility.

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Posted: June 6th, 2026