Video Data Annotation Specialist

AuraOne; United States; Remote; USD 28,000 - 41,000; Full time

Job summary

AuraOne is seeking a Video Data Annotation Specialist for remote work eligible in the United States. You will review and evaluate video annotation outputs, apply a versioned rubric, and provide structured feedback to help retrain the modeling team.

This contractor role emphasizes careful reasoning and calibration against gold-standard examples to maintain high-quality annotations. Responsibilities include comparing responses, labeling issues with the rubric, and surfacing recurrent failure modes

Qualifications

• Prior evaluation, annotation, or human-rater experience on video data annotation evaluation or adjacent content for Video Data Annotation Specialist 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.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate video data annotation evaluation model outputs against a versioned rubric and assign severity tags for Video Data Annotation Specialist 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

Model output evaluation

Rubric-based annotation

Severity tagging

Inter-rater calibration

Video Data Annotation evaluation

Design

Job description

Category: Video, Vision & Spatial AI · Pay: Hourly rate confirmed after the interview process · Location: Remote — US-eligible · Contractor

Video Data Annotation Specialist is a remote evaluation track for reviewing video data annotation 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 video data annotation evaluation outputs into auditable labels, rationales, and regression cases for AuraOne Human Data.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate video data annotation evaluation model outputs against a versioned rubric and assign severity tags for Video Data Annotation Specialist 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 video data annotation evaluation or adjacent content for Video Data Annotation Specialist 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 video data annotation 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
• Video Data Annotation evaluation
• Design

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.