ML Data Labeling Operations Lead

Bobyard, Inc.; San Francisco, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 125,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Base salary $90,000–$125,000

Equity

In-person in SF Bay Area office

4-year vesting with 1-year cliff

Job summary

Bobyard, Inc. is building AI to bring visual intelligence to construction. We seek a leader to own labeling end-to-end, building and managing the annotator team, establishing quality and throughput, and turning feedback into sharper guidelines.

You will clean up existing datasets, source new data, and ship datasets for ML engineers. This is a hands-on, systems-build role with high ownership. The role emphasizes data quality, operational discipline, and cross-functional collaboration with ML

Qualifications

• Direct experience managing a labeling, annotation, or data-quality team.
• Extremely detail-oriented — you notice data issues before anyone points them out.
• Strong operational instincts — can run many datasets and priorities without dropping details.
• Technical enough to work with ML engineers — understand false positives/negatives and data quality needs.
• Resourceful — you find new data when needed.
• High ownership — ensure datasets are actually good.

Responsibilities

• Build and lead the annotator team: recruit, onboard, train, and maintain quality and throughput.
• Own labeling quality: review annotations, catch systematic errors, refine guidelines.
• Clean up existing datasets: fix labels, metadata, duplicates, and data issues harming model performance.
• Source new data: organize construction drawings to expand coverage of formats and edge cases.
• Translate ML requests into shipped datasets: scope, run projects, deliver clean data on time.
• Collaborate with ML engineers to identify model failures and build data to fix them.
• Develop tooling and workflows to speed up labeling and ensure reliability.

Skills

Detail-oriented

Operational mindset

ML collaboration

Ownership

Tools

Labeling platforms

SQL or Python basics

Job description

Bobyard, Inc. is building AI to bring visual intelligence to construction. We seek a leader to own labeling end-to-end, building and managing the annotator team, establishing quality and throughput, and turning feedback into sharper guidelines.

You will clean up existing datasets, source new data, and ship datasets for ML engineers. This is a hands-on, systems-build role with high ownership. The role emphasizes data quality, operational discipline, and cross-functional collaboration with ML