Member of Operational Staff — Frontier Data
Own the end-to-end delivery of datasets and environments for frontier AI labs, translating ambiguous partner requirements into scoped, staffed, quality-controlled shipments. The role requires strong operational judgment, organization, communication, and experience with agents, evaluations, or reinforcement learning workflows.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Own delivery from intake through execution, review, and final shipment.
- Build processes that make quality visible, measurable, and consistently enforced.
- Interface with researchers and engineers at leading AI labs to shape data products.
- Plan and manage capacity across contributor and reviewer networks.
- Translate partner requirements into concrete specifications, delivery plans, quality standards, staffing, timelines, and risk mitigation.
- Automate recurring operational work in collaboration with engineers.
Requirements
- Practical experience with agents, evaluations, or reinforcement learning workflows.
- Exceptional organization, judgment, and communication skills.
- High agency, ownership, and a bias toward action.
Nice to Have
- Exposure to data labeling.
- Experience with annotation operations.
- Familiarity with evaluations.
- Experience with machine learning training data pipelines.
Compensation and Benefits
- Base compensation: $150,000–$300,000, depending on experience and level.
- $4,000/year travel stipend.
- Health insurance coverage for the employee and family.
- $350/month productivity stipend.
- $350/month AI stipend.
- $500 home office stipend.
- $150/month team lunch stipend.
- Unlimited PTO, with an annual two-week minimum.
- 12 weeks parental leave.
- Company equity.
Skills
Computer Vision, Machine Learning, AI Agents, Evaluations, Reinforcement Learning, Data Labeling, Data Annotation, Ml Training Data Pipelines, Quality Assurance, Capacity Planning
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