Strategic AI Data Programs Lead — Remote Contract

HumanitApp; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 165,000 - 248,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Flexible engagement

Job summary

Turing, based in San Francisco, seeks a Strategic Project Lead to own production data programs for frontier AI models. You will manage coding data, RLHF and benchmark activities, and oversee release decisions with strong technical judgment.

You'll coordinate distributed engineers and reviewers, ensuring quality, throughput, and timely delivery, using Python/SQL for analysis and reporting. This is a remote contractor role with flexible engagement terms.

Qualifications

• Direct experience operating production software-engineering data programs for frontier AI models.
• Owns the full production system including contributor sourcing, calibration, throughput, quality, rework, cost and delivery.
• Strong software-engineering judgment to read code and tests, inspect final artifacts, and make release or rejection decisions.
• Experience managing distributed software-engineering contributors, reviewers, and team leads to maintain quality and delivery.
• Ability to quickly take over an active program, diagnose operational problems, and communicate recovery plans to demanding customers.

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

Data pipelines

SWE benchmarks

Code review

Python

SQL

Team leadership

Tools

Git

Job description

Turing, based in San Francisco, seeks a Strategic Project Lead to own production data programs for frontier AI models. You will manage coding data, RLHF and benchmark activities, and oversee release decisions with strong technical judgment.

You'll coordinate distributed engineers and reviewers, ensuring quality, throughput, and timely delivery, using Python/SQL for analysis and reporting. This is a remote contractor role with flexible engagement terms.