AI Quality Assurance Intern
Cresta is hiring an AI Quality Assurance Intern in Toronto, Canada. It pays $30-$50/hr and Level rates it ; you can apply on Cresta.
Level's read on this job
- On Level's scale, this role is Works on AI ●●●○: the daily work is on AI products, without building the model.
- Tools and skills the posting cites include Vertex AI, AI agents and AI evaluation.
- Level classifies it as an internship.
- Level lists 86 other open roles at Cresta.
AI in this role
Cresta unlocks the true potential of the customer experience, turning every conversation into a competitive advantage. Cresta’s unified AI platform combines conversational AI agents, real-time human agent augmentation, and comprehensive conversation intelligence to drive revenue and efficiency gains across every channel. The world’s leading companies, including United Airlines, Cox Communications, and Marriott, use Cresta to power world-class customer experiences every day.
Born from the Stanford AI Lab, Cresta has raised more than $270 million from the world’s leading investors, including a16z, Greylock, and Sequoia. Cresta’s leadership includes some of the leading minds in AI today. Our CEO, Ping Wu, founded and led Google's Contact Center AI and Vertex AI platforms before joining Cresta to build the future of AI-driven customer experiences.
Over the next few years, AI is going to redefine how people all over the world interact with businesses every day. Come build that future at Cresta.
Cresta is on a mission to turn every customer conversation into a competitive advantage by unlocking the true potential of the contact center. Our platform combines the best of AI and human intelligence to help contact centers discover customer insights and behavioral best practices, automate conversations and inefficient processes, and empower every team member to work smarter and faster. Born from the prestigious Stanford AI lab, Cresta's co-founder and chairman is Sebastian Thrun, the genius behind Google X, Waymo, Udacity, and more. Our leadership also includes CEO, Ping Wu, the co-founder of Google Contact Center AI and Vertex AI platform, and co-founder, Tim Shi, an early member of Open AI.Join us on this thrilling journey to revolutionize the workforce with AI. The future of work is here, and it's at Cresta. About the role:
We are seeking curious, detail-oriented students to join our AI Delivery team as AI Quality Assurance Interns.
This is a hands-on role where you will evaluate the behavior, accuracy, and reliability of Cresta’s AI Agents and Agent Assist systems.
Unlike traditional QA, this work sits at the intersection of:
- AI behavior analysis
- Intent recognition evaluation
- Conversation quality assessment
- Model output auditing
- Light prompt testing and refinement
Responsibilities:
You will help ensure our AI systems act as intended, follow correct business logic, and provide accurate and safe outputs to end users. As an AI Quality Assurance Intern, you will:- Execute structured test plans for AI Agent implementations
- Validate that intents, entities, and workflows trigger correctly
- Identify behavioral inconsistencies, misclassifications, or hallucinations
- Review and validate AI-generated suggestions, summaries, and classifications
- Provide actionable feedback to improve intent models and redaction/PII handling
- Run bias, redaction, and transcription accuracy checks
- Spot patterns or emerging issues across test sets
- Contribute ideas for improving internal QA processes and tools
Qualifications We Value:
This is an excellent fit for students interested in:- AI/ML, NLP, or chatbots
- Product quality and user experience
- Linguistics, conversation analysis, or human–AI interaction
- Exploring a career in AI evaluation, AI ops, or product QA
Perks & Benefits:
- $30-$50 per hour subject to taxes
- Lunch can be expensed (up to $25) while working in the office.
- PT0: 4 days
This posting will be used to fill a newly-created role.
We have noticed a rise in recruiting impersonations across the industry, where scammers attempt to access candidates' personal and financial information through fake interviews and offers. All Cresta recruiting email communications will always come from the @cresta.ai domain. Any outreach claiming to be from Cresta via other sources should be ignored. If you are uncertain whether you have been contacted by an official Cresta employee, reach out to recruiting@cresta.com.
Our use of AI in recruiting: We may use AI tools in our recruiting process, which require human review and oversight. If you have questions about our use of AI or wish to opt out, please contact recruiting@cresta.ai (if you are opting out, please use the subject ‘Opt-Out’ in your email).
Recording & AI transcription: We do not authorize candidates to record or use AI transcription of any interview by phone, notetaker app, AI glasses, or other device. Candidates may request an exception or accommodation for review during the interview process as needed.
Recruiting impersonation scams: We have noticed a rise in recruiting impersonations across the industry, where scammers attempt to access candidates' personal and financial information through fake interviews and offers. All Cresta recruiting email communications will always come from the @cresta.ai domain. Any outreach claiming to be from Cresta via other sources should be ignored.
How we rate this
AI Quality Assurance Intern at Cresta rates 70 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Works on AI (AI Level 3 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.
Works on AI. The daily work is on AI products, without building the model.
- ●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
- ●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
- ●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
- ●○○○ Little AI0 to 39
Levels come from how often the tools, models and workflows of the role are named in the posting itself. Read the description and count the AI tools, models and workflows it names.
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Skills and AI tools this role asks for
Questions you could be asked
- How do you decide when an AI agent can act on its own versus asking for approval first?
- How do you decide that one model's output is better than another's for a given task?
- What NLP problem have you worked on, and how did you measure whether it actually worked?
- What's a project where you used Vertex AI hands-on?
- Describe a typical day in a role like this one: which parts run through AI directly?
Adapt your resume
- List these exact terms on your resume: AI agents, AI Evaluation, NLP, and Vertex AI. An applicant tracking system matches the wording, not the idea.
- Attach one line of real, concrete experience to at least one of them. A tool named with nothing behind it rarely survives a human read.
- Show where AI is part of your daily process, not a one-off project. This role expects it to be a running habit.
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