Junior Data Annotation Engineer (Remote) at Jobright.ai Santa Clara, CA

Overview

Junior Data Annotation Engineer (Remote) job at Jobright.ai. Santa Clara, CA. Jobright is an AI-powered career platform that helps job seekers discover the top opportunities in the US. We are NOT a staffing agency. Jobright does not hire directly for these positions. We connect you with verified openings from employers you can trust. Job Summary: Sustainable Talent is partnering with Nvidia, a global leader in computer graphics and accelerated computing, to find a Data Annotation Engineer. This role involves leading the design and optimization of annotation projects and workflows to support AI research, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and ensuring the successful delivery of high-quality datasets.

Responsibilities

• Set up, test, and maintain UI configurations for annotation tasks using a third-party annotation platform and internal tooling.
• Design and adapt automation scripts in annotation pipelines, data processing, logging and telemetry.
• Collaborate with product managers, engineers, researchers, data annotators, and other cross-functional team members for annotation project set up, requirement gathering, prioritization, pre-annotation and post-annotation processing and quality review.
• Act as the single-threaded owner of each project end to end—from requirement gathering to dataset delivery.
• Communicate project updates, address concerns, and align expectations to ensure successful project outcomes.
• Track project progress, identify risks, and implement corrective actions as necessary to keep projects on course.
• Troubleshoot project setup issues, pipeline failures, and UI bugs.
• Develop and maintain technical guidelines, playbooks, and internal tools to build and operate annotation projects.
• Lead and support general annotation operation improvement initiatives across various data domains.

Qualifications

Required:

• Bachelor's degree with 3+ years of experience in operations (AI/NLP operations, product operations, or data analysis) or software development.
• Strong problem-solving skills with a systems-thinking and automation-first mindset.
• Proficiency with Python scripting, for data processing and automation.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to interface with both technical and operational teams.
• Familiarity with structured data formats (CSV, JSON, JSONL), cloud storage (e.g., S3), telemetry and monitoring concepts.

Preferred:

• Experience with data annotation platforms, modern ETL systems, machine learning is a bonus.

Company Sustainable Talent provides staffing, consulting and outsourcing services. Founded in 2009, the company is headquartered in Wayne, New Jersey, USA, with a team of 201-500 employees. The company is currently Growth Stage. J-18808-Ljbffr Apply tot his job Apply To this Job