Data Annotator

AuraOne, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 25,000 - 39,000; Full time

Job summary

AuraOne, Inc. is seeking a Data Annotator to remotely review evaluation prompts and responses against AuraOne's quality rubric. You will compare outputs, assign severity tags, and draft rationales to support model retraining.

You will help label hallucinations and safety issues, calibrate against gold-standard examples, and document recurring failure modes to improve future training runs. This role is remote and US-eligible as a contractor.

Qualifications

• Prior evaluation, annotation, or human-rater experience on data annotator evaluation or adjacent content for Data Annotator work.
• Clear written reasoning that names the issue and the rubric clause being applied.
• Strong attention to detail and the ability to flag when a prompt itself is the problem.
• Reliable async availability for at least 10 hours per week.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate data annotator evaluation model outputs against a versioned rubric and assign severity tags for Data Annotator assignments.
• Compare paired responses and pick the stronger answer with a written rationale.
• Label hallucinations, instruction-following failures, and unsafe content with structured tags.
• Capture ambiguous prompts and route them back to the program team for rubric updates.
• Maintain reviewer-quality scores by calibrating against gold-standard examples each week.
• Document recurring failure modes so the modeling team can target them in the next training run.

Skills

Data annotation

Attention to detail

Written reasoning

Inter-rater calibration

Rubric-based evaluation

Job description

Data Annotator is a remote evaluation track for reviewing data annotator evaluation prompts and responses against AuraOne's quality rubric. Reviewers compare paired outputs, label edge cases, and write the kind of structured feedback the modeling team can use to retrain.

Why this role matters

AI data reviewers help turn data annotator evaluation outputs into auditable labels, rationales, and regression cases for AuraOne Human Data.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate data annotator evaluation model outputs against a versioned rubric and assign severity tags for Data Annotator assignments.
• Compare paired responses and pick the stronger answer with a written rationale.
• Label hallucinations, instruction-following failures, and unsafe content with structured tags.
• Capture ambiguous prompts and route them back to the program team for rubric updates.
• Maintain reviewer-quality scores by calibrating against gold-standard examples each week.
• Document recurring failure modes so the modeling team can target them in the next training run.

Qualifications

• Prior evaluation, annotation, or human-rater experience on data annotator evaluation or adjacent content for Data Annotator work.
• Comfort applying multi-page rubrics consistently across long batches.
• Clear written reasoning that names the issue and the rubric clause being applied.
• Strong attention to detail and the ability to flag when a prompt itself is the problem.
• Reliable async availability for at least 10 hours per week.

Example tasks

• Compare two data annotator evaluation model responses to the same prompt and pick the stronger one with rationale.
• Tag an unsafe response with the correct policy category and severity.
• Audit a 50-row batch for rubric consistency and report drift to the program lead.
• Propose a rubric clarification after spotting a recurring failure mode.

Nice to have

• Background in linguistics, content moderation, or trust & safety review.
• Experience with inter-rater agreement metrics and calibration cycles.
• Domain expertise that lets you spot subject-matter errors automated checks miss.

Skills

• Model output evaluation
• Rubric-based annotation
• Severity tagging
• Inter-rater calibration
• Data Annotator evaluation

Work model

Remote — US-eligible. Remote · Independent specialist contractor. Employment type: CONTRACTOR. Applicants must be authorized to work from US.

Compensation

Hourly rate confirmed after the interview process.

Application process

Apply through AuraOne's specialist intake for role-specific routing and review. Final project scope, schedule, and contractor terms are confirmed before placement.

Prior evaluation, annotation, or human-rater experience on data annotator evaluation or adjacent content for Data Annotator work. Comfort applying multi-page rubrics consistently across long batches. Clear written reasoning that names the issue and the rubric clause being applied. Strong attention to detail and the ability to flag when a prompt itself is the problem. Reliable async availability for at least 10 hours per week.