3D Spatial Data Expert (AI Community)

TELUS Digital AI Community; Italia; Remote; EUR 22,000 - 61,000; Full time

Job summary

TELUS Digital AI Community is seeking a 3D Spatial Data Expert to annotate and label the physical world in 3D datasets such as LiDAR and meshes. You will define the AI’s spatial alphabet, labeling curbs, pedestrians, shelves, and other assets while collaborating remotely with a global AI community.

You will work as an independent contractor, contributing to autonomous vehicle, drone, and metaverse projects.

Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor's degree in any field; preferred related disciplines.
• Native-language proficiency is mandatory for labeling localized signage and assets.
• English proficiency: minimum B1 (Intermediate) required to follow technical spatial guidelines.
• Strong 3D vision and spatial reasoning to interpret depth and volume from 2D displays.

Responsibilities

• Annotate 3D scenes with precise bounding boxes in point-cloud data.
• Perform semantic segmentation to categorize surfaces (road, sidewalk, obstacle).
• Clean noisy LiDAR data to produce clear representations for AI training.
• Validate AI-generated 3D environments against real-world captures to ensure fidelity.
• Answer simple spatial questions to test model reasoning.

Skills

Visual-Spatial Skills

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Job description

At TELUS Digital, we are teaching AI to move from 2D screens into 3D reality. As a 3D Spatial Data Expert, you are the "Mapmaker of the Future." You will join our AI Community as a specialist tasked with identifying and labeling the physical world within 3D datasets, such as LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) and 3D meshes. While our Specialists handle complex physics and urban planning, you are the one who teaches the AI the "alphabet" of space—where a curb ends, where a pedestrian begins, and how a robotic arm perceives a shelf. At TELUS, you are helping to build the data foundation for autonomous vehicles, drones, and the industrial metaverse.

What You’ll Do (Key Responsibilities)

• 3D Bounding Box Annotation: Placing precise 3D cubes (bounding boxes) around objects in point-cloud data to help AI identify their size, location, and orientation in space.
• Semantic Segmentation: "Painting" 3D maps to categorize different surfaces—distinguishing between a drivable road, a sidewalk, and a permanent obstacle.
• Point-Cloud Cleaning: Reviewing raw sensor data from self-driving cars or robots to remove "noise" (like rain or dust) so the AI sees a clear picture of reality.
• Simulated Data Validation: Comparing AI-generated 3D environments against real-world captures to ensure the digital version is a faithful "twin" of the physical one.
• Spatial Logic Testing: Answering simple questions about 3D scenes (e.g., "Is the drone's path clear of the overhead wire?") to validate the model's spatial reasoning.

What You Bring (Mandatory Qualifications)

• Education: Minimum of a Bachelor’s Degree in any field. (Preferred: Architecture, Geography, Graphic Design, Game Design, or STEM fields).
• Native Language: Native-level proficiency in your primary language is mandatory for labeling localized signage and environmental assets correctly.
• English Proficiency: Minimum B1 (Intermediate) level English to follow technical spatial guidelines.
• Visual-Spatial Skills: Strong "3D vision"—the ability to look at a flat screen and understand the depth and volume of objects.

Assessment

In order to be hired into our community, you’ll go through a subject-specific qualification exam that will determine your suitability for the position and complete ID verification.

Payment

Currently, pay rates for experts range from $18 - $50 USD per hour

Our Payment terms are defined for each project.

Why Join the TELUS Digital AI Community

• Community Connection: Work remotely as part of a 1M+ diverse global AI Community of contributors and experts.
• Impactful Expertise: Use your native language and academic degree to shape real-world AI systems and products used by millions every day.
• Hands-on Innovation: Gain experience in the latest AI research, evaluation, and fine-tuning methodologies.
• Global Collaboration: Collaborate with a network of specialists across 20+ domains and 500+ languages and dialects.

Flexible Engagement

Manage your own schedule while making a meaningful impact on the future of technology.

TELUS Digital AI Community

Our global AI Community is a vibrant network of more than one million contributors from diverse backgrounds who help customers collect, enhance, train, translate, and localize content to build better AI models. Become part of our growing community and contribute to the development of innovative AI technologies used by some of the world's largest brands.

Independent Contractor Relationship

This opportunity is offered on an independent contractor basis. Contributors have the flexibility to choose when and how much they work, subject to project availability and quality requirements. This opportunity is not and should not be construed as creating an employment relationship with TELUS Digital.