AI Safety & Responsible AI Lead

At NTT DATA, we know that with the right people on board, anything is possible. The quality, integrity, and commitment of our employees have been key factors in our company''s growth and market presence. By hiring the best people and helping them grow both professionally and personally, we ensure a bright future for NTT DATA and for the people who work here.

For more than 25 years, NTT DATA Services have focused on impacting the core of your business operations with industry-leading outsourcing services and automation. With our industry-specific platforms, we deliver continuous value addition, and innovation that will improve your business outcomes. Outsourcing is not just a method of gaining a one-time cost advantage, but an effective strategy for gaining and maintaining competitive advantages when executed as part of an overall sourcing strategy.

NTT DATA Services currently seeks a AI Safety & Responsible AI Lead to join our team in Jersey City, New Jersey.

4 days onsite in Jersey City
Contract

Responsible AI / AI Governance / Model Risk / Ethical AI

Role purpose

Define and operationalize Responsible AI practices across the AI lifecycle. The role ensures AI systems are safe, fair, explainable, transparent, compliant, monitored, and aligned with enterprise values, model risk, legal, compliance, data governance, and audit expectations.

Primary ownership

• Responsible AI policy, control framework, risk taxonomy, governance workflows, and production-readiness criteria.
• AI risk assessments, impact assessments, safety evaluations, and post-production monitoring standards.
• Cross-functional alignment across engineering, product, legal, compliance, model risk, audit, cybersecurity, and data governance.

Key responsibilities

• Define Responsible AI standards, policies, procedures, risk-classification methods, and operating models for AI and GenAI initiatives.
• Establish governance processes for use-case intake, risk assessment, model review, approval workflows, deployment readiness, and ongoing monitoring.
• Develop safety and evaluation frameworks covering fairness, bias, explainability, transparency, robustness, privacy, hallucination, harmful outputs, and human oversight.
• Define guardrail requirements for LLMs, RAG systems, agentic workflows, and high-risk AI applications.
• Partner with model risk, legal, compliance, data governance, cybersecurity, and audit teams to align AI controls with enterprise expectations.
• Lead AI impact assessments, risk reviews, control assessments, readiness reviews, and remediation planning.
• Establish metrics and monitoring for bias indicators, safety violations, explainability gaps, harmful outputs, user feedback, and behavior drift.

Basic Qualification

• 10 years of Technology ethics & safety 
• 8- 10 years of Responsible AI, AI ethics, model governance, model risk, explainability, fairness, privacy, safety, and enterprise risk management.
• 8-10 years of experience implementing AI governance or Responsible AI controls in production or enterprise environments.
• Understanding of LLM-specific risks such as hallucination, bias, toxicity, prompt injection, data leakage, overreliance, and unsafe automatio
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• Preferred experience
• Experience in banking, insurance, fintech, consulting, regulatory risk, model risk management, technology governance, or data governance.
• Experience building AI risk taxonomies, control libraries, governance operating models, or Responsible AI playbooks.
• Familiarity with global AI governance frameworks, model validation practices, privacy regulation, and audit expectations.

#LI-NorthAmerica

NTT DATA provides a reasonable range of compensation for U.S.-based positions. The starting pay range for this role is [100 -110 $ hourly range]. Actual compensation will depend on a number of factors, including the candidate''s relevant experience, technical skills, and other qualifications.
This position is eligible for company benefits including participation in medical, dental, and vision insurance, flexible spending or health savings account, and AD&D insurance, employee assistance, participation in a 401k program, and additional voluntary or legally-required benefits

About NTT DATA Services:

NTT DATA Services is a recognized leader in IT and business services, including cloud, data and applications, headquartered in Texas. As part of NTT DATA, a $30 billion trusted global innovator with a combined global reach of over 80 countries, we help clients transform through business and technology consulting, industry and digital solutions, applications development and management, managed edge-to-cloud infrastructure services, BPO, systems integration and global data centers. We are committed to our clients'' long-term success. Visit nttdata.com or LinkedIn to learn more.

NTT DATA Services is an equal opportunity employer and considers all applicants without regarding to race, color, religion, citizenship, national origin, ancestry, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, physical or mental disability, veteran or marital status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment for all employees. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please inform your recruiter so that we may connect you with the appropriate team.