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AppenStrategic Project Lead - AI Post-Training (United States)
Appen is hiring a remote Strategic Project Lead for AI Post-Training in the United States. Appen has spent over thirty years providing human-generated data to train,…
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Appen is hiring a remote Strategic Project Lead for AI Post-Training in the United States. Appen has spent over thirty years providing human-generated data to train, fine-tune, and evaluate models across generative AI, large language models, speech recognition, and computer vision. In this position, the selected individual will assist artificial intelligence companies in developing and enhancing frontier models by managing high-quality data programs. This role suits professionals with a background…
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Appen is hiring a remote Strategic Project Lead for AI Post-Training in the United States. Appen has spent over thirty years providing human-generated data to train, fine-tune, and evaluate models across generative AI, large language models, speech recognition, and computer vision. In this position, the selected individual will assist artificial intelligence companies in developing and enhancing frontier models by managing high-quality data programs.
This role suits professionals with a background in AI data operations or project delivery who want to guide projects shaping how models perform, reason, and respond. The person in this position will oversee project delivery from start to finish, manage client communications, establish quality standards, and create reusable standard operating procedures. The ideal candidate brings experience coordinating workstreams, collaborating with stakeholders, and translating shifting requirements into measurable evaluation plans and clear workflows.
Responsibilities
- Manage end-to-end project delivery encompassing scope, budget, timelines, risk management, and staffing
- Direct client communication, status updates, planning sessions, and issue escalations
- Convert model improvement goals into data requirements, evaluation plans, rubrics, and workflows
- Establish acceptance criteria and quality standards for preference data, model comparisons, and evaluation outputs
- Track delivery quality, investigate discrepancies, and address ambiguous client requirements
- Provide advice on data design, project feasibility, and evaluation strategies leveraging domain expertise
- Build reusable standard operating procedures, guidelines, and quality assurance frameworks
- Mentor Operations Specialists and assist with project scoping, pilot initiatives, and new capability creation
Requirements
- Possess one to two years or more of experience in AI data operations, delivery, or project coordination, preferably within a frontier AI or GenAI setting
- Demonstrate familiarity with at least one model evaluation or AI post-training workflow
- Show experience coordinating workstreams, communicating with clients, and managing stakeholders
- Understand annotation workflows, data quality, and quality assurance techniques
- Be able to transform evolving needs into measurable quality standards, clear workflows, and rubrics
- Exhibit strong organizational and troubleshooting capabilities to handle multiple priorities
- Maintain an interest in current advancements in artificial intelligence, including post-training methodologies and frontier models
Qualifications
- Experience working with reinforcement learning from human feedback, preference data, or evaluating model responses
- Familiarity with model comparison, benchmark creation, evaluation development, or rubric design
- Background in assessing model instruction following, accuracy, reasoning, or response quality
- Previous exposure to frontier AI labs, artificial intelligence companies, or model evaluation programs
- Bilingual proficiency, specifically in a Nordic language or German
Core Skills
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Applicants need one to two years or more of experience in AI data operations, project coordination, or delivery, ideally within a GenAI or frontier AI environment.
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