Remote Strategic Project Lead — AI Software Data Programs

Codefeast; United States; Remote; CAD 192,000 - 231,000; Full time

Job summary

Codefeast is seeking a Strategic Project Lead for software engineering data programs serving frontier AI models. You will own production across coding data, RLHF, SWE benchmarks, model evaluations, and agentic coding, with duties spanning delivery, quality, cost, and timelines.

You will coordinate distributed engineers and reviewers, review code and final artifacts, and drive release decisions with minimal training. Immediate start for a 3-month engagement, remote work option.

Qualifications

• Direct experience operating production software-engineering data programs for frontier AI models.
• Ownership of the full production system, including contributor sourcing, calibration, throughput, quality, rework, cost, and delivery recovery.
• Strong ability to read code and tests, inspect final artifacts, and make release or rejection decisions.

Responsibilities

• Operate active software-engineering data and evaluation programs end to end.
• Manage contributor sourcing, calibration, onboarding, reviewer capacity, and performance.
• Track throughput, quality, rework, defects, cost, and delivery timelines.
• Review code, tests, task metadata, and final artifacts for technical correctness.
• Diagnose quality failures and improve task design, rubrics, instructions, and review processes.
• Lead recovery plans when programs fall behind on quality, throughput, cost, or timelines.
• Coordinate distributed software engineers, reviewers, and team leads.
• Communicate progress, risks, and corrective actions to customer research and program teams.
• Use Python, SQL, or similar tools for quality analysis, defect tracking, and operational reporting.

Skills

Production data programs

Software engineering judgment

Distributed team leadership

Tools

Python

SQL

Job description

Codefeast is seeking a Strategic Project Lead for software engineering data programs serving frontier AI models. You will own production across coding data, RLHF, SWE benchmarks, model evaluations, and agentic coding, with duties spanning delivery, quality, cost, and timelines.

You will coordinate distributed engineers and reviewers, review code and final artifacts, and drive release decisions with minimal training. Immediate start for a 3-month engagement, remote work option.