Data Annotation Engineer

Jobtailor; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor in Washington, DC seeks a data engineering/annotation operations professional to ingest and map mission-aligned corpora and to manage CVAT deployment for phase-based annotation pipelines. You will produce load reports, configure annotation pipelines, and support QA during corpus production.

Must have 5+ years total experience, 3+ years in data engineering or annotation ops, and active TS/SCI eligibility. Bachelors preferred but equivalent experience considered.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree preferred; equivalent experience 2-for-1 considered.
• 5+ years total professional experience, 3+ years in data engineering or annotation operations.
• CVAT deployment and day-to-day operation required.
• Annotated dataset ingest pipelines: schema mapping, format validation, ontology alignment.
• Full-motion video (FMV) annotation concepts and tooling.
• Active Secret clearance with TS/SCI eligibility.

Responsibilities

• Receive, validate, ingest, and ontology-map the ODIN corpus from AFS delivery.
• Produce the ODIN load report: corpus description, ontology mapping, readiness state.
• Configure CVAT annotation pipeline against the Phase 1 starter kit rule pack.
• Operate both self-service and lightweight white-glove annotation paths during Phase D corpus production.
• Produce 50-100 label demonstration corpus across synthetic and mission-aligned content.
• Support QA/Evaluation Lead on QC execution and corpus annotation dry-runs.
• Associate DataCard provenance records with annotated and synthetic outputs in coordination with the Solution Architect.

Skills

Python scripting

Ontology mapping

Data wrangling

Format conversion

Annotation operations

FMV annotation concepts

Education

Bachelor's degree in Data Science or Computer Science

Tools

CVAT

Job description

• Receive, validate, ingest, and ontology-map the ODIN mission-aligned corpus from AFS delivery
• Produce the ODIN load report: corpus description, ontology mapping, readiness state
• Configure CVAT annotation pipeline against the Phase 1 starter kit rule pack
• Operate both self-service and lightweight white-glove annotation paths during Phase D corpus production
• Produce 50-100 label demonstration corpus across synthetic and mission-aligned content
• Support QA/Evaluation Lead on QC execution and corpus annotation dry-runs
• Associate DataCard provenance records with annotated and synthetic outputs in coordination with the Solution Architect.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Data Science, Computer Science, or related field preferred. Equivalent experience may substitute for degree on a 2-for-1 basis.
• 5+ years total professional experience, 3+ years in data engineering or annotation operations
• CVAT - deployment and day-to-day operation required; this is not a nice-to-have
• Annotated dataset ingest pipelines: schema mapping, format validation, ontology alignment
• Full-motion video (FMV) annotation concepts and tooling
• Python scripting for data wrangling, validation, and format conversion
• Active Secret clearance with TS/SCI eligibility.