Position Type: Regular - Full-Time
Requisition ID: 43986
In every role, McCainers are ambitious, curious, and passionate about creating exceptional work experiences - together. With a customer-first mindset, we make doing business with McCain easy.
About the role.
The Responsible-AI / Eval Specialist is responsible for designing, implementing, and operating evaluation frameworks that determine whether AI use cases are ready to progress through governance stage-gates and into production. This role serves as the hands-on execution arm of McCain's Responsible AI standards, working closely with AI Platform & Engineering, Knowledge Engineering, Forward Deployment Engineers, and Security teams to evaluate accuracy, reliability, fairness, robustness, and overall quality across the McCain AI ecosystem. The role supports AI solutions built on Azure, Anthropic foundation models, Distyl technologies, Databricks, SAP, Salesforce, and other enterprise platforms.
What you'll be doing.
- Design and execute evaluation strategies for AI use cases, including assessments of accuracy, reliability, hallucination rates, fairness, and robustness.
- Build, maintain, and operate evaluation harnesses, benchmark suites, and golden datasets across the McCain AI technology stack.
- Conduct stage-gate evaluations and provide clear, actionable findings to support governance decisions.
- Run bias and fairness testing across protected attributes and business-relevant user groups.
- Identify, quantify, and communicate fairness concerns while recommending practical remediation approaches.
- Lead red-team and adversarial testing exercises to identify vulnerabilities, failure modes, prompt injection risks, and jailbreak scenarios.
- Partner with Enterprise Security teams to strengthen AI resilience through broader adversarial testing initiatives.
- Support risk classification activities by providing evaluation evidence and recommendations that inform governance decisions.
- Collaborate with AI Platform & Engineering and Knowledge Engineering teams to embed evaluation capabilities into AI development workflows.
- Maintain model cards, evaluation reports, decision logs, and other governance documentation while contributing to Responsible AI standards and playbooks.
- Coach AI Engineers and Forward Deployment Engineers on evaluation best practices and quality disciplines.
- Share evaluation insights, frameworks, and reusable patterns across the AI organization.
What you'll need to be successful.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Engineering, or a related field; advanced degree preferred.
- 10+ years of experience in AI/ML evaluation, model validation, model risk management, or a related discipline.
- Hands-on experience with AI/ML evaluation methodologies and performance metrics, including accuracy, calibration, fairness, and robustness.
- Experience evaluating Large Language Models (LLMs) and AI agents using frameworks such as HELM, Eleuther LM Evaluation Harness, or equivalent platforms.
- Strong Python programming skills and experience with common machine learning evaluation and testing tools.
- Experience working with Databricks or comparable enterprise data platforms.
- Familiarity with Responsible AI and AI governance frameworks, including NIST AI RMF, EU AI Act, ISO/IEC 42001, or similar standards.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and critical-thinking skills.
- Ability to communicate complex technical findings effectively to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Experience conducting bias testing, red-team exercises, adversarial testing, and AI risk assessments is highly desirable.
About the team.
The Responsible-AI / Eval Specialist is part of McCain's AI governance and delivery ecosystem and works closely with the Use Case Governance & Operations Lead. The role partners across AI Platform & Engineering, Knowledge Engineering, Forward Deployment Engineering, Enterprise Security, and business stakeholders to ensure AI use cases meet quality, risk, and Responsible AI standards before deployment. This position plays a critical role in advancing safe, reliable, and trustworthy AI solutions across the organization.
About McCain.
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Leadership principles.
At McCain, our leadership principles guide how we engage with customers, collaborate as a team, and achieve success. We focus on understanding customer needs, driving innovation, empowering people, and taking ownership to clear obstacles and deliver results.
AI & Digital Capabilities.
At McCain, AI and digital capabilities are part of how we work and innovate. We value curiosity toward emerging technologies and the thoughtful, responsible use of AI-enabled tools to improve outcomes as part of our future-ready culture.
The McCain experience.
We are McCain. This statement is a testament to our collective strength and our individual value. Your contributions play a vital role in our success. Our winning culture is rooted in authenticity and trust, empowering us to bring out the best in one another. Here, you'll find opportunities to learn, grow, and thrive. Join us and experience why we're better together.
Our purpose is grounded in building meaningful relationships. We're big believers in the power of working together in person-it helps us stay connected, collaborate more effectively, and grow as a team. At the same time, we recognize the importance of flexibility. Most office-based roles follow a hybrid model, with the option to work remotely two days a week. There may be exceptions depending on the role and location, so we encourage you to speak with your recruiter for more details.
McCain Foods is an equal opportunity employer. As a global family-owned company, we strive to be the employer of choice in the diverse communities around the world in which we live and work. We recognize that inclusion drives our creativity, resilience, and success and makes our business stronger. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.
McCain is an accessible employer. If you require an accommodation throughout the recruitment process (including alternate formats of materials or accessible meeting rooms), please let us know and we will work with you to find appropriate solutions.
Your privacy is important to us. By submitting personal data or information to us, you agree this will be handled in accordance with McCain's Global Privacy Policy and Global Employee Privacy Policy , as applicable. McCain leverages AI in the hiring process, though all final decisions are made by humans. You can understand our approach to AI and how your personal information is being handled here .
Job Family: Information Technology
Location(s): IN - India : Haryana : Gurgaon
Company: McCain Foods(India) P Ltd
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Engineering, or a related field
- 10+ years of experience in AI/ML evaluation, model validation, model risk management, or a related discipline
- Hands-on experience with AI/ML evaluation methodologies and performance metrics, including accuracy, calibration, fairness, and robustness
- Experience evaluating large language models and AI agents using HELM, EleutherAI LM Evaluation Harness, or equivalent platforms
- Strong Python programming skills and experience with machine learning evaluation and testing tools
- Experience working with Databricks or comparable enterprise data platforms
- Familiarity with Responsible AI and AI governance frameworks, including NIST AI RMF, EU AI Act, ISO/IEC 42001, or similar standards
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and critical-thinking skills
- Ability to communicate complex technical findings to technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Advanced degree
- Experience conducting bias testing, red-team exercises, adversarial testing, and AI risk assessments
McCain Foods Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Healthcare Strength — U.S. materials and external profiles cite medical, dental, vision, and mental‑health resources alongside an Employee Assistance Program, with some sites also noting wellness options and onsite resources. Core coverage is repeatedly positioned as a solid element of the package across U.S. locations.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) with company matching is offered and is indicated as a consistently strong component of the U.S. package. References to favorable assessments of the 401(k) align with it being one of the better‑rated benefits in the U.S.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — PTO, sick time, and paid holidays are commonly included, with parental leave also highlighted in company materials and third‑party summaries. Some locations additionally mention bereavement leave and occasional paid volunteer time.
McCain Foods Insights
What We Do
The power it has to uplift and bring people, Guided by our purpose - Celebrating real connections through delicious, planet-friendly food - we believe that working together with our teams, business and community partners will bring sustainable growth and positive change - today, tomorrow and for generations to come. As a privately owned family company with over 60 years of experience, a presence in over 160 countries and a global team of 22,000 people, our values and culture are at the heart of everything we do. Our product quality, people and customer dedication help us achieve global sales in excess of CDN $10 billion. Through our investment and innovation, we continue to be a global leader in prepared potato products, including our famous French Fries and appetizers. We are passionate about supporting and developing our people-providing opportunities to grow and learn in their roles, as well as building careers for the long term.
Why Work With Us
We are working to bring digital tools and data into our processes to drive efficiency, automation and data-driven insights. From connecting our business, enabling our supply chain, supporting our customers, to reinventing agriculture. So if you are a tech expert looking to join a company transforming technology, think of McCain.
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McCain Foods Offices
Hybrid Workspace
Employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.
In both our manufacturing plants and corporate offices, we believe connection brings out the best in our people. While in-office expectations will vary by role, flexibility is key. In our corporate offices, the hybrid standard is 3-days in office.


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