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Procurement

• Design and execute creative sourcing strategies for specialized, hard-to-reach, and high-volume needs
• Explore communities, networks, referrals, and non-traditional channels to find and engage contributors
• Translate project requirements into targeted searches and adapt strategies as needs evolve
• Communicate sourcing progress, challenges, and market feedback, and flag potential risks
• Use sourcing and conversion data to identify bottlenecks, test approaches, and improve performance
• Use AI and automation in research, outreach, analysis, and sourcing workflows to improve efficiency
• Partner closely with the Sourcing Lead, Recruitment, and Delivery
• Rapidly scale sourcing efforts when projects require high volumes

Strategic Sourcing Lead – Fulfillment

Engineer

• Work directly with enterprise clients to design, deploy, and optimize GenAI data solutions
• Own final delivered data quality
• Define requirements and clarify success criteria
• Shape high-quality annotation guidelines and proactively provide insights
• Translate ambiguous client needs into clear, scalable workflows
• Deliver GenAI datasets meeting defined acceptance and quality criteria
• Define validation and automation requirements to reduce variance, manual review effort, rework, and time to validation
• Partner with engineering to build scalable, reproducible, and observable pipelines
• Contribute reusable quality frameworks and validators adopted across multiple projects

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Recruitment

• Design and execute creative sourcing strategies for specialized, hard-to-reach, and high-volume needs
• Explore communities, networks, referrals, and non-traditional channels to find and engage contributors
• Translate project requirements into targeted searches and adapt strategies as needs evolve
• Communicate sourcing progress, challenges, and market feedback, and flag potential risks
• Use sourcing and conversion data to identify bottlenecks, test approaches, and improve performance
• Use AI and automation in research, outreach, analysis, and sourcing workflows to improve efficiency
• Partner closely with the Sourcing Lead, Recruitment, and Delivery
• Turn complex requirements into effective searches and rapidly scale sourcing efforts when projects require high volumes

Strategic Sourcer – Fulfillment

Data Entry

• Annotate 2D and 3D objects across images, video, and LiDAR point clouds, including vehicles, machinery, people, signage, and environmental features
• Create and maintain segmentation, object tracking, pose, and keypoint annotations across sequences
• Apply annotation guidelines covering class definitions, occlusion rules, object thresholds, and inclusion/exclusion criteria
• Review work, respond to QA feedback, and maintain quality and accuracy standards
• Identify and escalate ambiguous scenes, sensor artifacts, tooling issues, and specification gaps
• Document data quality and tooling issues with clear details and reproduction steps
• Participate in calibration sessions, guideline reviews, and team standups
• Share observations to improve annotation guidelines, taxonomies, and edge-case documentation
• Produce accurate, consistent annotations at the expected volume while maintaining reliable datasets

Strategic Sourcing Lead – Fulfillment

Forward Deployed Engineer

Strategic Sourcer – Fulfillment

Data Annotation Analyst