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Human Data Engineer

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3 months ago
Palo Alto, CA, USAMid Level
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$144k - $270k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Partner with model and engineering teams to define high-value data projects and evaluation strategies.
  • Own end-to-end delivery of data and evaluation projects supporting model development.
  • Build tools and systems to measure data yield, evaluation lift, usage, and data effectiveness.
  • Run evaluations and maintain validation processes for data quality, factual accuracy, integrity, and truthfulness.
  • Research and implement data collection, annotation, generation, and multimodal integration techniques.
  • Design and improve annotation workflows, labeling interfaces, and related data-quality tools.
  • Coordinate with engineering, technical staff, Human Data Operations, and tutoring teams to share knowledge and align delivery.
  • Support project scaling and demand forecasting while reporting status, insights, and blockers.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in engineering, computer science, or a related STEM discipline, or 4+ years of experience in lieu of a degree.
  • Experience collaborating across engineering, research, product, annotation, or operations teams.
  • Experience analyzing datasets to identify trends, anomalies, quality issues, or integrity problems.
  • Master’s degree or higher in a relevant technical field is preferred.
  • Experience curating, evaluating, or improving training or evaluation datasets for large language models or other AI/ML systems is preferred.
  • Experience designing, supporting, or optimizing annotation tools, labeling interfaces, or data workflows is preferred.
  • Familiarity with multimodal or domain-specific data is preferred.
  • Experience conducting model or dataset evaluations for quality, truthfulness, or product alignment is preferred.
  • Experience with a scripting language such as Python is preferred.
  • Experience with SQL or other data analysis tools is preferred.

Benefits

  • Base salary of $144,000–$270,000 USD, with equity and additional total-rewards benefits.
  • Comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage.
  • 401(k) retirement plan, short- and long-term disability insurance, life insurance, discounts, and other perks.
  • Weekend work may be required.
  • Travel to other SpaceXAI sites may be required.

Tech Stack

Categories

Data Engineering
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