# Quality Control Lead at AfterQuery

- Company: AfterQuery
- What the company does: AfterQuery captures how experts reason and turns real-world professional work into high-quality training data for frontier foundation models. Backed by Y Combinator.
- Company website: https://afterquery.com
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: San Francisco
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $150K to $275K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-08-31
- Apply by: 2026-10-15
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/afterquery/4acfc5fd-bbd1-4edd-8506-aeec6a1cc94a
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/afterquery-quality-control-lead/

## About the role

Final Quality Review: Own the last quality checkpoint before datasets are delivered or published, auditing outputs (including code, technical, and reasoning data) for correctness, clarity, structure, and adherence to spec. QC Process & Tooling: Work with infrastructure engineers to continuously automate and improve QC workflows

## What they're looking for

- 3+ years of experience in a technical role (software engineering, data science, ML engineering, or similar) with hands-on proficiency in at least one modern programming language
- Proven ability to review, debug, and evaluate both code and technical data and knowledge work data for correctness, structure, and quality, demonstrated rigor in reviewing others' work
- Experience building or leading a quality assurance/quality control function, ideally for a technical or data-centric product
- Extremely high attention to detail and comfort making judgment calls on ambiguous or contested technical content
- Strong leadership and communication skills, able to translate technical quality issues into clear, actionable feedback across a distributed team
- High agency and strong work ethic, comfort operating with minimal direction in ambiguous, fast-moving environments

Tags: Operations