AI Automation Engineer - Virtual

Alight • Lincolnshire, IL

6h • Remote

About The Position

Our story
At Alight, we believe a company’s success starts with its people. At our core, we Champion People, help our colleagues Grow with Purpose and true to our name we encourage colleagues to “Be Alight.”
Our Values:
Champion People – be empathetic and help create a place where everyone belongs.
Grow with purpose – Be inspired by our higher calling of improving lives.
Be Alight – act with integrity, be real and empower others.
It’s why we’re so driven to connect passion with purpose. Alight helps clients gain a benefits advantage while building a healthy and financially secure workforce by unifying the benefits ecosystem across health, wealth, wellbeing, absence management and navigation.
With a comprehensive total rewards package, continuing education and training, and tremendous potential with a growing global organization, Alight is the perfect place to put your passion to work.
Join our team if you Champion People, want to Grow with Purpose through acting with integrity and if you embody the meaning of Be Alight.
Learn more at careers.alight.com.
As the AI Automation Engineer in the AI CoE, you will be instrumental in standing up the initial automation framework for AI Quality. You’ll work closely with the AI Quality Lead and developers to build, run, and scale automated test suites for AI models and agents.

Requirements

• Experience in test automation, software engineering, or quality assurance (AI/ML experience is a plus, but not required)
• Proficiency in Python, JavaScript/Node.js, or similar programming languages
• Familiarity with CI/CD, version control, and cloud-based deployment environments
• Experience with test automation tools (promptfoo, Ragas, Postman)
• Understanding of AI model evaluation metrics (faithfulness, answer relevancy, hallucination, refusal correctness)
• Basic knowledge of fairness, safety, and security testing for AI systems
• Experience with AI infrastructure, orchestration, data integrity, deployments, and model registry practices
• Interest in Responsible AI, bias mitigation, and regulatory compliance
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain automated test frameworks for LLM, RAG, agentic, and classic ML systems
• Implement golden/adversarial test cases (functional, safety, bias, prompt injection, refusal correctness, tool use)
• Integrate evaluation tools (promptfoo, Ragas) into CI/CD pipelines and support batch quality assessments
• Author and validate OpenAPI/JSON Schema contracts for model inputs/outputs; enforce schema checks in pipelines
• Instrument observability metrics (latency, success rate, cost, drift) using OpenTelemetry and export to dashboards
• Support data QA, lineage tracking, and drift monitoring (Evidently, OpenLineage)
• Collaborate with AI developers, SDETs, and SRE to troubleshoot, optimize, and document automation processes
• Contribute to red-team playbooks and security testbooks mapped to OWASP/ATLAS risks

Benefits

• We offer programs and plans for a healthy mind, body, wallet and life because it’s important our benefits care for the whole person. Options include a variety of health coverage options, wellbeing and support programs, retirement, vacation and sick leave, maternity, paternity & adoption leave, continuing education and training as well as several voluntary benefit options.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees