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and pull-request review.\nGoverned development supported by automated testing, peer review, security scanning, and controlled deployment.\nCandidates must be able to independently validate AI-generated code for:\nFunctional correctness and test coverage\nSecurity and data-access risks\nPerformance and scalability\n Maintainability and architectural alignment\n Dependency, licensing, and software supply-chain concerns\nCompliance with enterprise engineering standards\nEvaluation, Observability, and Testing: Required\nHands-on experience with data-quality, model-evaluation, LLM-evaluation, or AI-observability frameworks.\n Experience building:Model benchmarking and evaluation pipelines\nData-quality and reconciliation tests\nRetrieval and RAG evaluations\nAgent test harnesses and scenario-based simulations\nContinuous validation and regression testing\n Production monitoring for data, retrieval, model, and agent quality\n\nAbility to measure:Data accuracy, completeness, freshness, and 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