AI Post-Training Delivery Lead

Appen Limited; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Appen Limited seeks a Strategic Project Lead - AI Post-Training in Oregon to drive high-quality data programs for frontier models. You will own delivery and coordinate with clients and internal teams to translate evolving AI research needs into clear workflows and measurable outcomes.

You bring 1-2+ years in AI data operations or delivery, familiarity with post-training workflows, and a proactive approach to defining quality standards, rubrics, and evaluation plans to guide model improvements.

Qualifications

• 1-2+ years in AI data operations, project coordination, or delivery.
• Familiarity with at least one AI post-training or model evaluation workflow.
• Experience coordinating projects or workstreams, managing stakeholders, and communicating with clients.
• Understanding of data quality, annotation workflows, and quality assurance methods.
• Ability to translate evolving requirements into clear workflows, rubrics, and measurable quality standards.
• Strong troubleshooting and organizational skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities.
• Interest in current AI developments, including frontier models and post-training approaches.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end project delivery, including scope, timelines, budgets, staffing, and risk management.
• Lead client communication, status reporting, planning sessions, and escalations.
• Translate model improvement objectives into data requirements, workflows, rubrics, and evaluation plans.
• Define quality standards and acceptance criteria for preference data, model comparisons, and evaluation outputs.
• Monitor delivery quality, investigate inconsistencies, and resolve ambiguous requirements with clients.
• Advise on data design, evaluation approaches, and project feasibility based on domain expertise.
• Develop reusable guidelines, SOPs, and QA frameworks to improve consistency across programs.
• Mentor Operations Specialists and contribute to project scoping, pilots, and new capability development.

Skills

AI data operations

Project coordination

Client communication

Data quality

Workflow design

Troubleshooting

Organizational skills

Job description

Appen Limited seeks a Strategic Project Lead - AI Post-Training in Oregon to drive high-quality data programs for frontier models. You will own delivery and coordinate with clients and internal teams to translate evolving AI research needs into clear workflows and measurable outcomes.

You bring 1-2+ years in AI data operations or delivery, familiarity with post-training workflows, and a proactive approach to defining quality standards, rubrics, and evaluation plans to guide model improvements.