Full-Time

Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

Institute of Foundation Models

Institute of Foundation Models

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Abu Dhabi - United Arab Emirates

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Requirements
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, AI, or a related technical field is required.
  • Extensive experience in software quality assurance, test automation, and validation of complex software systems.
  • Strong proficiency in Python, with hands-on experience in test automation frameworks such as PyTest or similar.
  • Understanding of AI/ML model testing challenges, including non-deterministic outputs, dataset biases, and model evaluation metrics.
  • Experience testing distributed systems, RESTful APIs, cloud-native applications, and microservices architectures.
  • Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins, GitLab CI, or GitHub Actions.
  • Strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and ability to identify edge cases and failure modes.
  • Excellent communication skills, with the ability to collaborate across multi-disciplinary teams.
Responsibilities
  • Design and implement comprehensive test plans and test cases for AI-powered applications, APIs, and platform features.
  • Develop automated testing frameworks for AI models, data pipelines, and software features, primarily leveraging Python.
  • Evaluate AI model outputs for correctness, fairness, robustness, and consistency across various tasks and datasets.
  • Collaborate with AI researchers, data scientists, and engineers to define testing metrics and acceptance criteria for AI models.
  • Conduct manual and exploratory testing where automation is insufficient, especially for AI feature behavior.
  • Perform end-to-end testing across distributed systems, APIs, databases, web applications, and model inference pipelines.
  • Implement performance testing for both AI inference and software systems to ensure responsiveness and scalability.
  • Develop continuous integration (CI) and continuous deployment (CD) pipelines to ensure reliable and repeatable testing processes.
  • Track, analyze, and report defects and quality metrics to stakeholders, driving root cause analysis and resolution.
  • Contribute to internal quality standards, best practices, and documentation to strengthen the QA function within IFM.
Desired Qualifications
  • Master’s degree or equivalent experience in AI systems, software testing, or quality assurance preferred.
  • Experience testing AI models (LLMs, computer vision, multi-modal models) and AI-enhanced software features.
  • Proficiency with AI/ML libraries and frameworks such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, or Hugging Face for model validation.
  • Familiarity with data quality assurance, dataset validation, and annotation workflows.
  • Knowledge of cloud infrastructure platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and containerized deployments (Docker, Kubernetes).
  • Arabic language proficiency to assist in linguistic, data, or region-specific validation scenarios.
  • Contributions to open-source QA tools or AI testing frameworks.
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What believers are saying

  • IFM's dedicated teams in Abu Dhabi, Paris, and Silicon Valley drive K2 and JAIS advancements.
  • Active job openings for AI research interns and engineers signal rapid team expansion.
  • PAN world model enables multi-level reasoning in simulations for real-world applications.

What critics are saying

  • OpenAI's o1 surpasses K2 and JAIS by 25% on benchmarks, shifting users in 6-12 months.
  • US export controls block NVIDIA H200 GPUs, delaying K2 releases by 9 months.
  • Stanford CRFM's model with 10x data captures 70% academic citations in 6-12 months.

What makes Institute of Foundation Models unique

  • IFM pioneers open-source K2 Think V2, UAE's sovereign 70B reasoning system released January 2026.
  • IFM advances JAIS 2, world's leading Arabic LLM trained on largest Arabic-first dataset.
  • IFM hosts models on Hugging Face under mbzuai-ifm for global open collaboration.

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