About the role
ABOUT THE ROLE
Lead data operations for teams developing advanced AI models, owning the quality of datasets used for training and evaluation. This flexible expert network matches experienced data operations professionals with project work based on their backgrounds.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
- Lead data sourcing and collection programs by writing specifications, setting acceptance criteria, and tracking yield and quality.
- Manage media capture and document contribution at scale, then curate and validate the resulting datasets.
- Design synthetic data generation pipelines and validation checks to assess data quality.
- Review annotations, adjudicate disagreements, and run calibration and audit rounds with annotator teams.
- Write and maintain labelling guidelines, identifying gaps and incorporating new edge cases.
- Coach annotators and reviewers, and report agreement rates, error rates, and other quality metrics to project teams.
WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR
- At least 5 years of experience in data operations, annotation QA, data quality, dataset management, or a relevant domain with hands-on human-data work.
- Experience leading or reviewing others' work as a QA lead, guideline owner, adjudicator, team lead, or data project manager.
- Experience running data sourcing or collection programs, including setting specifications, acceptance criteria, and quality measures.
- Proficiency with annotation tools such as Label Studio, Labelbox, CVAT, Scale, Remotasks, or Appen, and spreadsheets or SQL for quality analysis.
- Experience owning labelling guidelines and conducting annotation reviews, calibration, or audits while measuring agreement or error rates.
- Clear written communication for explaining data quality issues and solutions. Experience with synthetic data validation, large-scale media capture, document contribution, dataset curation, or coaching annotators is also relevant.
COMPENSATION & BENEFITS
Compensation is $45 to $90 per hour, depending on the project, field, and level. Payment is based on hours worked.
LOCATION
Fully remote. Projects range from one week to several months.