Back to jobs
New

AI Data Lead

India (Remote)

About Clarifai

Clarifai is a leading, full-lifecycle deep learning AI platform for computer vision, natural language processing, and audio recognition. We help organizations transform unstructured images, video, text, and audio data into structured data at a significantly faster and more accurate rate than humans would be able to do on their own. Founded in 2013 by Matt Zeiler, Ph.D. Clarifai has been a market leader in AI since winning the top five places in image classification at the 2013 ImageNet Challenge. Clarifai continues to grow with employees remotely based throughout the United States and in Tallinn, Estonia.

We have raised $100M in funding to date, with $60M coming from our most recent Series C, and are backed by industry leaders like Menlo Ventures, Union Square Ventures, Lux Capital, New Enterprise Associates, LDV Capital, Corazon Capital, Google Ventures, NVIDIA, Qualcomm and Osage.

Clarifai is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace dedicated to pursuing, hiring, and retaining a diverse workforce.

Impact

We believe that world-class AI is built on a foundation of world-class data. The AI Data Lead for will own the critical, end-to-end process of creating and curating the high-quality datasets that fuel our models. You will be a power user of Clarifai's suite of automated data labeling products, providing direct feedback to our product and engineering teams to drive continuous improvement.

Initially, this role will concentrate on building our next-generation vision datasets, with a heavy emphasis on full-motion video. Over time, the scope will strategically expand to include the development of our large-scale language datasets for advanced NLP models.

Opportunity

  1. Dataset Strategy & Pipeline Development:
  • Collaborate with ML and product teams to define data requirements, starting with complex video and image use cases and expanding into text and language.
  • Design and execute a comprehensive strategy for data acquisition and augmentation.
  • Build, scale, and maintain robust data pipelines to ingest, process, and version large-scale multimedia datasets.
  1. Third-Party Labeling & Internal Tool Management (Primary Focus):
  • Leverage Clarifai's automated and AI-assisted labeling tools to efficiently pre-label data and manage human-in-the-loop workflows.
  • Serve as the primary lead for external data labeling vendors who will often verify or enrich AI-generated labels, ensuring projects are on time and within budget.
  • Author crystal-clear labeling instructions for complex tasks, from object tracking in video to, eventually, named entity recognition in text.
  • Implement and manage a rigorous quality assurance (QA) framework for both AI- and human-generated labels.
  1. Product Feedback & Improvement Loop:
  • Act as a key internal customer for Clarifai's data labeling products.
  • Provide structured, expert feedback to our product and engineering teams to identify bugs, suggest feature enhancements, and guide the product roadmap.
  • Continuously evaluate and pioneer new strategies for combining automated labeling with human verification to maximize quality and efficiency.
  1. Leadership & Collaboration:
  • Lead and mentor a focused set of data labeling partners.
  • Foster a culture of data excellence, ownership, and continuous improvement.
  • Communicate project status, challenges, and outcomes effectively to all stakeholders. Keep track of budgets.

Requirements

  • 3+ years in data engineering, with a proven history of building and managing complex data pipelines.
  • Direct, hands-on experience managing third-party data labeling services or in-house annotation teams.
  • Experience working with large-scale vision datasets (image or video).
  • Deep understanding of data labeling processes and quality metrics.
  • Strong proficiency in Python and SQL.
  • Experience with cloud data services (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
  • Exceptional project management, communication, and vendor management skills.
  • A meticulous eye for detail and an unwavering commitment to data quality.

Great to Have

  • Specific experience with the complexities of full-motion video datasets and annotation (e.g., temporal consistency, event tagging).
  • Experience in an environment where you regularly used internal tools and provided feedback for their improvement ("dogfooding").
  • Experience with large-scale language or text datasets.
  • Previous experience in a technical leadership or mentorship role.
  • Experience using a variety of data annotation platforms and tools.

Apply for this job

*

indicates a required field

Resume/CV*

Accepted file types: pdf, doc, docx, txt, rtf

Cover Letter

Accepted file types: pdf, doc, docx, txt, rtf

Select...
Select...
Select...

Voluntary Self-Identification

For government reporting purposes, we ask candidates to respond to the below self-identification survey. Completion of the form is entirely voluntary. Whatever your decision, it will not be considered in the hiring process or thereafter. Any information that you do provide will be recorded and maintained in a confidential file.

As set forth in Clarifai’s Equal Employment Opportunity policy, we do not discriminate on the basis of any protected group status under any applicable law.

Select...
Select...
Race & Ethnicity Definitions

If you believe you belong to any of the categories of protected veterans listed below, please indicate by making the appropriate selection. As a government contractor subject to the Vietnam Era Veterans Readjustment Assistance Act (VEVRAA), we request this information in order to measure the effectiveness of the outreach and positive recruitment efforts we undertake pursuant to VEVRAA. Classification of protected categories is as follows:

A "disabled veteran" is one of the following: a veteran of the U.S. military, ground, naval or air service who is entitled to compensation (or who but for the receipt of military retired pay would be entitled to compensation) under laws administered by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs; or a person who was discharged or released from active duty because of a service-connected disability.

A "recently separated veteran" means any veteran during the three-year period beginning on the date of such veteran's discharge or release from active duty in the U.S. military, ground, naval, or air service.

An "active duty wartime or campaign badge veteran" means a veteran who served on active duty in the U.S. military, ground, naval or air service during a war, or in a campaign or expedition for which a campaign badge has been authorized under the laws administered by the Department of Defense.

An "Armed forces service medal veteran" means a veteran who, while serving on active duty in the U.S. military, ground, naval or air service, participated in a United States military operation for which an Armed Forces service medal was awarded pursuant to Executive Order 12985.

Select...

Voluntary Self-Identification of Disability

Form CC-305
Page 1 of 1
OMB Control Number 1250-0005
Expires 04/30/2026

Why are you being asked to complete this form?

We are a federal contractor or subcontractor. The law requires us to provide equal employment opportunity to qualified people with disabilities. We have a goal of having at least 7% of our workers as people with disabilities. The law says we must measure our progress towards this goal. To do this, we must ask applicants and employees if they have a disability or have ever had one. People can become disabled, so we need to ask this question at least every five years.

Completing this form is voluntary, and we hope that you will choose to do so. Your answer is confidential. No one who makes hiring decisions will see it. Your decision to complete the form and your answer will not harm you in any way. If you want to learn more about the law or this form, visit the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) website at www.dol.gov/ofccp.

How do you know if you have a disability?

A disability is a condition that substantially limits one or more of your “major life activities.” If you have or have ever had such a condition, you are a person with a disability. Disabilities include, but are not limited to:

  • Alcohol or other substance use disorder (not currently using drugs illegally)
  • Autoimmune disorder, for example, lupus, fibromyalgia, rheumatoid arthritis, HIV/AIDS
  • Blind or low vision
  • Cancer (past or present)
  • Cardiovascular or heart disease
  • Celiac disease
  • Cerebral palsy
  • Deaf or serious difficulty hearing
  • Diabetes
  • Disfigurement, for example, disfigurement caused by burns, wounds, accidents, or congenital disorders
  • Epilepsy or other seizure disorder
  • Gastrointestinal disorders, for example, Crohn's Disease, irritable bowel syndrome
  • Intellectual or developmental disability
  • Mental health conditions, for example, depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety disorder, schizophrenia, PTSD
  • Missing limbs or partially missing limbs
  • Mobility impairment, benefiting from the use of a wheelchair, scooter, walker, leg brace(s) and/or other supports
  • Nervous system condition, for example, migraine headaches, Parkinson’s disease, multiple sclerosis (MS)
  • Neurodivergence, for example, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), autism spectrum disorder, dyslexia, dyspraxia, other learning disabilities
  • Partial or complete paralysis (any cause)
  • Pulmonary or respiratory conditions, for example, tuberculosis, asthma, emphysema
  • Short stature (dwarfism)
  • Traumatic brain injury
Select...

PUBLIC BURDEN STATEMENT: According to the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 no persons are required to respond to a collection of information unless such collection displays a valid OMB control number. This survey should take about 5 minutes to complete.