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About Appen
Appen is a global leader in the development of high-quality, human-annotated datasets for machine learning and artificial intelligence. Appen brings over 20 years of experience capturing and enriching a wide variety of data types including speech, text, image and video. With deep expertise in more than 180 languages and access to a global crowd of over 1 million skilled contractors, Appen partners with technology, automotive and eCommerce companies — as well as governments worldwide — to help them develop, enhance and use products that rely on natural languages and machine learning.
Position Summary
The Senior Program Manager role is a leadership position with active involvement in team management, process creation & implementation, report and data management, change management, relationship management and strategic planning.
The Senior Program Manager will monitor and drive key performance metrics for a team of Managers supporting one of Appen’s key accounts. The Senior Program Manager will work collaboratively, supporting a virtual environment, with Appen’s Director team to meet all stakeholder requirements.
The Senior Program Manager functions as a Customer facing, results-driven, and innovative operations leader. The role will have accountability for customer relationships, end-to-end program delivery and driving profitable growth.
Responsibilities
- Bring high level of value add to the account - improve processes, innovation, efficiencies, ensuring your team consistently exceed delivery standards
- Management of a team of Program Managers including team management, reporting, performance reviews etc
- Build, develop and maintain high-performing delivery teams including, hiring, training, coaching, mentoring and continually driving performance development initiatives
- Establish and monitor team and individual goals and drive teams to accomplish and exceed them, inspiring and fostering team commitments, innovation and continuous improvement
- Develop and deliver semi-annual performance reviews for all direct reports as well as review performance evaluations given by direct reports to first line subordinates
- Drive MBRs and QBRs with relevant customer stakeholders and support Program Managers on Weekly Business Reviews
- Partner with the Director on account project actions from initiation to delivery, ensuring that projects meet quality, turn-around time and budget expectations.
- Ensure the accuracy of financial project data, workflows, schedules and processes to maximize efficiency and profitability
- Engage with customers to understand customers' business needs and challenges: lead their teams to execute on defined solutions across all service offerings
- Recognize Customer needs and proactively focus on fulfilling these needs through innovative thinking and collaboration with internal technical, production, quality, Community and management teams.
- Through customer engagements, be aware of, and actively seek out opportunities for increasing revenue from existing and potentially new business streams.
Qualifications and Experience
- This position requires strong inter-personal skills, cross-group coordination at all levels, business acumen, and the ability to work on several diverse projects at the same time
- Passionate about our customers and our people.
- Strong analytical/problem solving skills, demonstrated success in driving complex programs, outstanding organizational skills and agility, strong communication skills (verbal and written), proven project management skills and be a motivated self-starter.
- Superior judgment, team building, budgeting, and the ability to work under continual deadline pressure required.
- Strong change management skills, able to lead through frequent complex and high impact changes across the organization.
- Strong oral and written communication skills, including slide concept creation, requirements documents and presentation-building
- 6 - 8 years of experience in project management or program management in a similar industry.
- Prior AI/Machine Learning experience a plus.
- Advanced business degree preferred.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
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About Appen
Appen is a global leader in the development of high-quality, human annotated datasets for machine learning and artificial intelligence. Appen brings over 20 years of experience capturing and enriching a wide variety of data types including speech, text, image and video. With deep expertise in more than 180 languages and access to a global crowd of over 800,000 skilled contractors, Appen partners with technology, automotive and eCommerce companies - as well as governments worldwide - to help them develop, enhance and use products that rely on natural languages and machine learning.
Position Summary:
Appen’s HR Administrator is responsible for assisting with onboarding and keeping track of onboarding documents for all new hires. The HR Administrator works collaboratively with the US HR Managers and other Global HR team members to assist in meeting all project deliverables and assisting internal clients.
Key Responsibilites:
- Assisting with answering Qs regarding incoming emails and tickets in AC while distributing others to appropriate teams
- Take initiative with VOEs, Income verifications and Unemployment data collection
- Manage and send termination notices
- Oversee processing and managing I9s through e-verify
- Continue assisting with HR tasks outside of the above – workday, SP filing/data collection, new hire HR paperwork distribution/collection, SOS
- Provide back up support for the HR Manager
Communication:
- Manage high-volume mail and email inboxes for onboarding support and processing tickets
- Answer emails from onboarding new hires and internal customers
- Communicate, with all stakeholders, in a timely, clear and concise manner
- Participate in regular team meetings. Where necessary, complete additional tasks as assigned.
Qualifications:
- Motivated self-starter who can establish a course of action for self and others and drive initiatives to completion
- Flexible, independent, self-motivated; able to deal calmly and professionally with ambiguous data while leading in an environment of constant change
- Excellent communication skills including an ability to present information clearly and concisely in writing or verbally. Must also be an attentive and careful listener and respond appropriately to others
- Demonstrated time management and organizational skills with attention to details.
- Excellent analytical skills including ability to proactively identify problems, gather information and set course of action
- Demonstrated understanding and appreciation for a global marketplace and workforce
Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
- BS or BA degree from an accredited university or equivalent work experience preferred
- Minimum 3-5 years of experience in a Human Resources department or equivalent setting working in an administrative
- I-9 knowledge and processing following all USCIS compliance
- Excel skills required
- Experience managing and prioritizing large volumes of mail and email correspondence
- Experience with a Windows operating system and Office suite of products
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Flexibility to learn from changing standards and tasks.
- Detail-oriented and strives for continuous high performance and accuracy.
- Ability to work independently and possess good time-management skills.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
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Appen is a global leader in the development of high-quality, human annotated datasets for machine learning and artificial intelligence. With over 20 years of experience, expertise in more than 180 languages, and access to a global crowd of over 400,000, Appen partners with leading technology companies to enhance their machine learning-based products.
Position Summary:
Due to the increasing demand in speech data, we are currently seeking an ambitious and energetic Slovakian/Serbian/Polish speaking Project Specialist, who under the direction of the Project Manager, will work closely with members of the language resource team to assist with the successful delivery of speech collection projects.
Working as part of a team your key areas of responsibility include: project set-up and administration and crowd management. To be successful in this role you will need to develop and execute successful candidate engagement strategies and build a pipeline of qualified candidates through proactive liaising with potential partners and candidates and ensure projects are delivered on time and within budget whilst maintaining good relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
Location: In-office, Chatswood, Sydney
Length: Casual
Working Hours/ Day: 7.5
Working Days/ Week: 5
Detailed Job Responsibilities:
- Take ownership of successful creation, execution, monitoring and reporting on all types of candidate engagement strategies.
- Using Appen’s custom database and tools, source and engage remote candidates to complete short speech tasks in the target language.
- Conduct follow-up communications with potential candidates via email and custom tools.
- Develop communication resources and tracking tools for candidate engagement.
- Manage data collection and project completion status, reporting to the Project Manager.
- Be a proactive team member, contributing solutions and helping others as necessary.
- Follow strict confidentiality protocol regulating the handling of project details and other sensitive information.
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
- You are fluent in communicating in English both oral and written.
- Computer literate and able to pick up new tools and systems quickly and with accuracy.
- You will have an intuitive approach and a service orientated and flexible outlook to your work.
- You’re a self-starter, who can work independently and proactively to resolve issues, take ownership of the tools, processes, reporting and relationships with vendors.
- You have strong analytical skills and the ability to interpret data, identify trends and analyse process effectiveness.
- You’re naturally curious and want to experiment with new and creative ideas.
- You thrive working in metric-driven, fast-paced, high-growth environments.
- You have strong communication and influencing skills with the ability to pitch comprehensive user engagement solutions.
Preferred Skills:
- Fluency in Slovakian/Serbian/Polish is highly appreciated.
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Office - Excel, Word, and Outlook
- Working knowledge of Google Suite of tools (G-Suite) – Google Docs and Sheets.
Document to be submitted:
- Please include with your application: your updated CV/resume; details of any language qualifications you hold; your availability.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
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Appen is a global leader in the development of high-quality, human annotated datasets for machine learning and artificial intelligence. With over 20 years of experience, expertise in more than 180 languages, and access to a global crowd of over 400,000, Appen partners with leading technology companies to enhance their machine learning-based products.
Position Summary:
Due to the increasing demand in speech data, we are currently seeking an ambitious and energetic Indonesian/Malaysian/Thai/Vietnamese speaking Project Specialist, who under the direction of the Project Manager, will work closely with members of the language resource team to assist with the successful delivery of speech collection projects.
Working as part of a team your key areas of responsibility include: project set-up and administration and crowd management. To be successful in this role you will need to develop and execute successful candidate engagement strategies and build a pipeline of qualified candidates through proactive liaising with potential partners and candidates and ensure projects are delivered on time and within budget whilst maintaining good relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
Location: In-office, Chatswood, Sydney
Length: Casual
Working Hours/ Day: 7.5
Working Days/ Week: 5
Detailed Job Responsibilities:
- Take ownership of successful creation, execution, monitoring and reporting on all types of candidate engagement strategies.
- Using Appen’s custom database and tools, source and engage remote candidates to complete short speech tasks in the target language.
- Conduct follow-up communications with potential candidates via email and custom tools.
- Develop communication resources and tracking tools for candidate engagement.
- Manage data collection and project completion status, reporting to the Project Manager.
- Be a proactive team member, contributing solutions and helping others as necessary.
- Follow strict confidentiality protocol regulating the handling of project details and other sensitive information.
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
- You are fluent in communicating in English both oral and written.
- Computer literate and able to pick up new tools and systems quickly and with accuracy.
- You will have an intuitive approach and a service orientated and flexible outlook to your work.
- You’re a self-starter, who can work independently and proactively to resolve issues, take ownership of the tools, processes, reporting and relationships with vendors.
- You have strong analytical skills and the ability to interpret data, identify trends and analyse process effectiveness.
- You’re naturally curious and want to experiment with new and creative ideas.
- You thrive working in metric-driven, fast-paced, high-growth environments.
- You have strong communication and influencing skills with the ability to pitch comprehensive user engagement solutions.
Preferred Skills:
- Fluency in Indonesian/Malaysian/Thai/Vietnamese is highly appreciated.
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Office - Excel, Word, and Outlook
- Working knowledge of Google Suite of tools (G-Suite) – Google Docs and Sheets.
Document to be submitted:
- Please include with your application: your updated CV/resume; details of any language qualifications you hold; your availability.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
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Appen is a global leader in the development of high-quality, human annotated datasets for machine learning and artificial intelligence. With over 20 years of experience, expertise in more than 180 languages, and access to a global crowd of over 400,000, Appen partners with leading technology companies to enhance their machine learning-based products.
Position Summary:
Due to the increasing demand in speech data, we are currently seeking an ambitious and energetic French/German/Italian speaking Project Specialist, who under the direction of the Project Manager, will work closely with members of the language resource team to assist with the successful delivery of speech collection projects.
Working as part of a team your key areas of responsibility include: project set-up and administration and crowd management. To be successful in this role you will need to develop and execute successful candidate engagement strategies and build a pipeline of qualified candidates through proactive liaising with potential partners and candidates and ensure projects are delivered on time and within budget whilst maintaining good relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
Location: In-office, Chatswood, Sydney
Length: Casual
Working Hours/ Day: 7.5
Working Days/ Week: 5
Detailed Job Responsibilities:
- Take ownership of successful creation, execution, monitoring and reporting on all types of candidate engagement strategies.
- Using Appen’s custom database and tools, source and engage remote candidates to complete short speech tasks in the target language.
- Conduct follow-up communications with potential candidates via email and custom tools.
- Develop communication resources and tracking tools for candidate engagement.
- Manage data collection and project completion status, reporting to the Project Manager.
- Be a proactive team member, contributing solutions and helping others as necessary.
- Follow strict confidentiality protocol regulating the handling of project details and other sensitive information.
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
- You are fluent in communicating in English both oral and written.
- Computer literate and able to pick up new tools and systems quickly and with accuracy.
- You will have an intuitive approach and a service orientated and flexible outlook to your work.
- You’re a self-starter, who can work independently and proactively to resolve issues, take ownership of the tools, processes, reporting and relationships with vendors.
- You have strong analytical skills and the ability to interpret data, identify trends and analyse process effectiveness.
- You’re naturally curious and want to experiment with new and creative ideas.
- You thrive working in metric-driven, fast-paced, high-growth environments.
- You have strong communication and influencing skills with the ability to pitch comprehensive user engagement solutions.
Preferred Skills:
- Fluency in French/German/Italian is highly appreciated.
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Office - Excel, Word, and Outlook
- Working knowledge of Google Suite of tools (G-Suite) – Google Docs and Sheets.
Document to be submitted:
- Please include with your application: your updated CV/resume; details of any language qualifications you hold; your availability.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
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Appen is a global leader in the development of high-quality, human annotated datasets for machine learning and artificial intelligence. With over 20 years of experience, expertise in more than 180 languages, and access to a global crowd of over 400,000, Appen partners with leading technology companies to enhance their machine learning-based products.
Position Summary:
Due to the increasing demand in speech data, we are currently seeking an ambitious and energetic Hindi/Bengali/Telugu/Urdu/Tamil speaking Project Specialist, who under the direction of the Project Manager, will work closely with members of the language resource team to assist with the successful delivery of speech collection projects.
Working as part of a team your key areas of responsibility include: project set-up and administration and crowd management. To be successful in this role you will need to develop and execute successful candidate engagement strategies and build a pipeline of qualified candidates through proactive liaising with potential partners and candidates and ensure projects are delivered on time and within budget whilst maintaining good relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
Location: In-office, Chatswood, Sydney
Length: Casual
Working Hours/ Day: 7.5
Working Days/ Week: 5
Detailed Job Responsibilities:
- Take ownership of successful creation, execution, monitoring and reporting on all types of candidate engagement strategies.
- Using Appen’s custom database and tools, source and engage remote candidates to complete short speech tasks in the target language.
- Conduct follow-up communications with potential candidates via email and custom tools.
- Develop communication resources and tracking tools for candidate engagement.
- Manage data collection and project completion status, reporting to the Project Manager.
- Be a proactive team member, contributing solutions and helping others as necessary.
- Follow strict confidentiality protocol regulating the handling of project details and other sensitive information.
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
- You are fluent in communicating in English both oral and written.
- Computer literate and able to pick up new tools and systems quickly and with accuracy.
- You will have an intuitive approach and a service orientated and flexible outlook to your work.
- You’re a self-starter, who can work independently and proactively to resolve issues, take ownership of the tools, processes, reporting and relationships with vendors.
- You have strong analytical skills and the ability to interpret data, identify trends and analyse process effectiveness.
- You’re naturally curious and want to experiment with new and creative ideas.
- You thrive working in metric-driven, fast-paced, high-growth environments.
- You have strong communication and influencing skills with the ability to pitch comprehensive user engagement solutions.
Preferred Skills:
- Fluency in Hindi/Bengali/Telugu/Urdu/Tamil is highly appreciated.
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Office - Excel, Word, and Outlook
- Working knowledge of Google Suite of tools (G-Suite) – Google Docs and Sheets.
Document to be submitted:
- Please include with your application: your updated CV/resume; details of any language qualifications you hold; your availability.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
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Appen is a global leader in the development of high-quality, human annotated datasets for machine learning and artificial intelligence. With over 20 years of experience, expertise in more than 180 languages, and access to a global crowd of over 400,000, Appen partners with leading technology companies to enhance their machine learning-based products.
Position Summary:
Due to the increasing demand in speech data, we are currently seeking an ambitious and energetic Spanish/Portuguese speaking Project Specialist, who under the direction of the Project Manager, will work closely with members of the language resource team to assist with the successful delivery of speech collection projects.
Working as part of a team your key areas of responsibility include: project set-up and administration and crowd management. To be successful in this role you will need to develop and execute successful candidate engagement strategies and build a pipeline of qualified candidates through proactive liaising with potential partners and candidates and ensure projects are delivered on time and within budget whilst maintaining good relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
Location: In-office, Chatswood, Sydney
Length: Casual
Working Hours/ Day: 7.5
Working Days/ Week: 5
Detailed Job Responsibilities:
- Take ownership of successful creation, execution, monitoring and reporting on all types of candidate engagement strategies.
- Using Appen’s custom database and tools, source and engage remote candidates to complete short speech tasks in the target language.
- Conduct follow-up communications with potential candidates via email and custom tools.
- Develop communication resources and tracking tools for candidate engagement.
- Manage data collection and project completion status, reporting to the Project Manager.
- Be a proactive team member, contributing solutions and helping others as necessary.
- Follow strict confidentiality protocol regulating the handling of project details and other sensitive information.
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
- You are fluent in communicating in English both oral and written.
- Computer literate and able to pick up new tools and systems quickly and with accuracy.
- You will have an intuitive approach and a service orientated and flexible outlook to your work.
- You’re a self-starter, who can work independently and proactively to resolve issues, take ownership of the tools, processes, reporting and relationships with vendors.
- You have strong analytical skills and the ability to interpret data, identify trends and analyse process effectiveness.
- You’re naturally curious and want to experiment with new and creative ideas.
- You thrive working in metric-driven, fast-paced, high-growth environments.
- You have strong communication and influencing skills with the ability to pitch comprehensive user engagement solutions.
Preferred Skills:
- Fluency in Spanish/Portuguese Speaking is highly appreciated.
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Office - Excel, Word, and Outlook
- Working knowledge of Google Suite of tools (G-Suite) – Google Docs and Sheets.
Document to be submitted:
- Please include with your application: your updated CV/resume; details of any language qualifications you hold; your availability.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
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Appen is a global leader in the development of high-quality, human annotated datasets for machine learning and artificial intelligence. With over 20 years of experience, expertise in more than 180 languages, and access to a global crowd of over 400,000, Appen partners with leading technology companies to enhance their machine learning-based products.
Position Summary:
Due to the increasing demand in speech data, we are currently seeking an ambitious and energetic Mandarin/Japanese/Korean speaking Project Specialist, who under the direction of the Project Manager, will work closely with members of the language resource team to assist with the successful delivery of speech collection projects.
Working as part of a team your key areas of responsibility include: project set-up and administration and crowd management. To be successful in this role you will need to develop and execute successful candidate engagement strategies and build a pipeline of qualified candidates through proactive liaising with potential partners and candidates and ensure projects are delivered on time and within budget whilst maintaining good relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
Location: In-office, Chatswood, Sydney
Length: Casual
Working Hours/ Day: 7.5
Working Days/ Week: 5
Detailed Job Responsibilities:
- Take ownership of successful creation, execution, monitoring and reporting on all types of candidate engagement strategies.
- Using Appen’s custom database and tools, source and engage remote candidates to complete short speech tasks in the target language.
- Conduct follow-up communications with potential candidates via email and custom tools.
- Develop communication resources and tracking tools for candidate engagement.
- Manage data collection and project completion status, reporting to the Project Manager.
- Be a proactive team member, contributing solutions and helping others as necessary.
- Follow strict confidentiality protocol regulating the handling of project details and other sensitive information.
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
- You are fluent in communicating in English both oral and written.
- Computer literate and able to pick up new tools and systems quickly and with accuracy.
- You will have an intuitive approach and a service orientated and flexible outlook to your work.
- You’re a self-starter, who can work independently and proactively to resolve issues, take ownership of the tools, processes, reporting and relationships with vendors.
- You have strong analytical skills and the ability to interpret data, identify trends and analyse process effectiveness.
- You’re naturally curious and want to experiment with new and creative ideas.
- You thrive working in metric-driven, fast-paced, high-growth environments.
- You have strong communication and influencing skills with the ability to pitch comprehensive user engagement solutions.
Preferred Skills:
- Fluency in Mandarin/Japanese/Korean is highly appreciated.
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Office - Excel, Word, and Outlook
- Working knowledge of Google Suite of tools (G-Suite) – Google Docs and Sheets.
Document to be submitted:
- Please include with your application: your updated CV/resume; details of any language qualifications you hold; your availability.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
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Appen is a global leader in the development of high-quality, human-annotated datasets for machine learning and artificial intelligence. Appen brings over 20 years of experience capturing and enriching a wide variety of data types including speech, text, image and video. With deep expertise in more than 180 languages and access to a global crowd of over 1 million skilled contractors, Appen partners with technology, automotive and eCommerce companies — as well as governments worldwide — to help them develop, enhance and use products that rely on natural languages and machine learning.
Position Summary
The Senior Project Manager role is a leadership position accountable for the successful delivery of a portfolio of work to a client (s) or a set of internal initiatives. The Senior Project Manager orchestrates a team of project managers in the performance of their duties including but not limited to delivering contract obligations of the highest quality in the most efficient time. The Senior Project Manager provides inputs towards Appen developing people to meet current and future client needs and how to maximise delivery efficiencies and ensure team is capable of evolving/ scaling to meet future growth. Additionally, the Senior Project Manager will lead internal initiatives and contribute towards developing project management best practice. The Senior Project Manager will work collaboratively, supporting a virtual environment, with Appen’s Client Services team to meet all stakeholder requirements.
Responsibilities
The role includes but is not limited to the following duties and responsibilities:
- Develop and drive project plans and objectives to meet project scope, timeline and budget
- Develop and execute delivery and quality management plans to support a project end-to-end in a matrix environment
- Develop and mentor various project team members to drive team key performance metrics and meet or exceed project & program targets
- Drive continuous project improvements and efficiencies. Lead internal initiatives, managing senior stakeholders. Contribute towards developing project management best practice.
- Analyze and evaluate statistical reports to proactively identify and improve project performance and Client deliverables
- Communicate in a timely, clear and concise manner to stakeholders including Staff, Directors, Clients and Leadership.
- Adapt to changing program needs and expectations
Qualifications and Experience
- Minimum 5 to 7 years of project management experience in a metric-driven setting, working in a technology-oriented or services organization.
- BS or BA degree from an accredited University or equivalent work experience preferred.
- Excellent communication skills including an ability to present information clearly and concisely in writing or verbally to a wide audience including clients, managers and senior leaders; effectively uses active listening skills.
- Experience managing client relationships with a demonstrated focus on delivering high level customer service and quality improvement.
- Experience managing internal strategic initiatives.
- Maintains a high level of business acumen and is able to lead process improvement and innovation while driving efficiencies and change.
- Has experience managing full budget responsibility.
- Able to effectively coach and train peers and team members
- Proven analytical skills including the ability to proactively identify problems, gather information and drive course of action for self and others
- Innovative thinker who drives self and others in the development and implementation of new ideas; unafraid of taking risks to accomplish corporate level goals
- Flexible, independent, motivated self-starter who can establish a course of action for self and others and drive initiatives to completion.
- Demonstrated ability to work effectively in an environment characterized by constant change, ambiguous data and a fast-paced, deadline-driven culture; able to respond quickly and proactively to new or changed initiatives.
- Demonstrated ability to understand the big picture and use sound judgment to reach decisions while exhibiting sensitivity for all parties and issues.
- Senior level experience creating productive, cooperative relationships and demonstrated effective conflict resolution skills. Displays a high level of professionalism in interactions with peers, subordinates, clients and managers. Continually provides valuable input in an appropriate manner across the company.
- Demonstrated ability to make difficult decisions by researching and carefully weighing all options
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
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Appen, the #1 Employer on Flexjobs’s Top 100 Employers for Flexible work, is hiring for work from home roles. We offer competitive pay, free training and the ability to set your own work schedule. Appen is working on a speech to text development application for a major technology company and we are seeking native Kannada to participate in this project.
Location: Remote
Task duration: 16 weeks
Payrate: To be discussed
Required Language: Kannada
Task description:
- The task involves transcribing/converting audio and video recordings to text in Kannada(India). You will be using a browser-based Appen transcription tool to carry out the task.
- You are expected to work 20 hours weekly. You can choose to spread the required working hours throughout the week, including weekends.
Requirements:
- Native speaker of Kannada (India)
- Understands basic English
- Access to a computer with reliable internet and the latest version of Mozilla Firefox
- Minimum availability of 20 hours per week. You can work more if desired.
If you or someone in your circle of friends meet the requirements and is interested in contributing to this project, register now!
Detailed project information and instructions will be provided shortly after you have enrolled.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
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About Appen
Appen is a global leader in the development of high-quality, human-annotated datasets for machine learning and artificial intelligence. Appen brings over 20 years of experience capturing and enriching a wide variety of data types including speech, text, image and video. With deep expertise in more than 180 languages and access to a global crowd of over 1 million skilled contractors, Appen partners with technology, automotive and eCommerce companies — as well as governments worldwide — to help them develop, enhance and use products that rely on natural languages and machine learning.
Position Summary (MUST BE ABLE TO COMMUTE TO OUR KIRKLAND, WA OFFICE)
The Contract Manager plays a critical role in our ability to achieve our goals by creating and maintaining strong relationships with Account Director, Operations Director and Sales. In this role, you will be responsible for contract close-out, extension and renewal, and you will communicate contractual changes to all stakeholders. We count on our Contract Manager to resolve any contract (SOW or Amendment)-related issues that come up, whether internally or externally, and we require an individual who is able to partner with a variety of business support functions, including pre-sales , legal, resourcing, finance etc. Our company is growing rapidly, and our Contract Manager is critical to our success. We are looking for candidates who share our passion for excellence.
The Contract Manager is a permanent Appen function to be based out of Bay area in California. The Contract Manager handles establishing and documenting contracts, proposal support, executive approval and ensuring the SOW and Amendments are completed well ahead of time. The Contract Manager plays a vital role in not only managing the contracts but also keeping Sales and Account leadership informed on the progress of Purchase orders, renewals etc. It is a key role for the success of the Account.
Responsibilities
Reporting to the Operations Director, the Contract Manager will manage the process of contract/Purchase order tracking all projects in order to ensure that projects are renewed and have enough budget to cover for it. Specific duties include:
- Provide timely, expert advice to the Account Director, Operations Director and Sales on Renewals ,expansion and net new sales support
- Draft, evaluate, facilitate approval process and ensure that the contract is executed
- Manage record keeping for all contract- related corrrespondenc and documentation
- Provide contract related issue resolution internally and externally
- Monitor and complete contract close-out, extension or renewal, as appropriate
- Communicate contract-related information to all stakeholder
- Provide data for Vendor meetings working through various stakeholders
- Support Account Director in the Monthly Account Synch and provide necessary information working with finance ,sales, pre-sales, marketing and delivery
- Support sales/Account Director in the contract review process as per the deal governance/engagement process
- Ensure salesforce is updated with latest deal information with all contracts attached to the opportunity record
- Track and record new busines turn around time and report on monthly basis
Qualifications and Experience
- Bachelor Degree required, MBA preferred
- 12 yrs+ Contract Management Experience
- Minimum of 10 years progressive responsibility with quantifiable results in contract negotiation, administration and/or management
- Proven ability to successfully manage and deliver complex Information Technology and Business projects contracts
- Proven track record in a similar position of managing a complex business portfolio with strong financial acumen
- Demonstrated negotiation and problem-solving skills
- Robust skills in Microsoft Office software, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Project and Visio
- Excellent communication skills from interpersonal to workshop facilitation to steering committee briefing
- Ability to work with a variety of personality types and recognise issue urgency and need
- A professional approach and a willingness to work in a high performing team that values openness and transparency
- Contract modelling software skills is a plus
- Experience working with MD Word, Adobe and DocuSign
- Experience dealing with redline review process and contract admin protocol
- Experience working with in-house legal counsel on reviewing contract agreements when needed
- Ability to effectively prioritise and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment
- Ability to positively influence outcomes
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
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Appen is the world's leading innovative technology company, providing high-quality language and data services for machine learning and artificial intelligence. Appen is headquartered in Sydney, Australia and has subsidiaries in United States, United Kingdom, Philippines, and China. Appen has more than 20 years of experience in collecting and processing a variety of data, including data types such as speech, text, and images, etc. Appen has a pool of more than 1 million prequalified crowd resources around the world able to provide data collection and processing services in more than 180 languages. Appen’s client include global leaders in high-tech, automotive, e-commerce, etc. and governments to help them develop and improve products and technologies based on natural language understanding and machine learning. Appen is listed on the Australian Stock Exchange with stock code: APX
Key Responsibilities
- Build the Appen workforce management platform which manages workers across the world, and support internal recruiting, client service and domain experts and specialist teams to manage their projects efficiently.
- Build Appen’s data lake, which models and stores all Appen’s data. Voice data, Video data, transcription data, translation data, relevance data, workers data, internal data, etc. This is the data foundation serves Appen’s various applications, internal insights as well as machine learning services;
- Build data insight products. Those products can be reports of project insights and worker insights, or training data insights like visualization, distribution analysis, quality analysis, etc, or internal products to understand better millions of crowd workers.
- Learn and understand AI data need and build all the training data related knowledge into our platform;
- Work with engineers, managers, Product Managers, QE, and Operations teams to develop innovative solutions that meet market needs with respect to functionality, performance, scalability, reliability, realistic schedules, and adhere to development goals and principles.
- Estimate engineering effort, prioritize projects, plan implementations, and help rollout system changes. Help define, and supervise the design and implementation of complex, multi-tier distributed software applications.
- Identify process, technology challenges and deficiencies that need to be addressed and drive those changes to successful adoption.
- Mentor, grow and empower team members in design, coding techniques and time management
- Proactively identify and resolve resource conflicts and set priorities for parallel projects. Work closely with Product Manager on resource and project reprioritization and subsequent impacts. Communicate these impacts effectively.
- Identify project risks and be able to provide alternatives yielding reduced risk.
Requirements
- BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science or related technical discipline (or equivalent).
- 12+ years’ work experience in software development area with at least 5+ years’ experience in big data development.
- Strong technical acumen with big data platform (relational, non-relational, batch, real time);
- Experience of Hadoop, Map/Reduce, SQL, Kafka/Storm, Elastic Search;
- Excellent understanding of computer science fundamentals, data structures, and algorithms.
- Excellent problem-solving skills.
- Proven results-oriented person with a delivery focus in a high velocity, high quality environment.
- Strong communication skills in Oral and Written English.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
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We are seeking speakers of Spanish-accented English to record short phrases on a recording application available on Android smartphones or tablets. The purpose of this project is to improve language and voice recognition technologies.
To qualify to participate, you must be a native Spanish speaker from (Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Uruguay or Venezuela), naturally speak with Spanish accented English, located in the USA or Mexico and be able to record 200 short sentences in English on a free app from the Google Play Store.
Completed sessions that pass our quality check receive $10 USD. Participation takes on average only 45-55 minutes.
* This project requires the use of a registration app for Android devices (smartphone or tablet) and is not valid for iOS or other operating systems *
If you have a valid Android device and want to participate, to register, please follow this link:
https://go.appen.com/users/sign_up?referred_by=541092&project_id=8324
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
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Artificial Intelligence is transforming the world in almost every industry. Everyone knows only good training data can produces the best machine learning solutions. However, creating training data with high quality in a scalable way is very challenging and very few companies can do it. The whole AI world is starving for great training data. Appen is the market lead in training data generation field for more than 22 years and generates all kinds of training data like content relevance, image & video, text and audio, as well as data capturing.
Appen Tech team is solving the AI data problem by combining the power of human and technology. This world-class and exciting engineering position awaits qualified candidate. This team is responsible for build the most efficient annotation platform to help millions of workers globally to complete their job more efficiently thus generating high quality training data. The platform includes image annotation, video annotation, voice/video transcription, translation, text annotation, Lexington, data capture tools, and pre-annotation with machine learning. It is an exciting opportunity to make your own mark in the AI data industry!
You also get the opportunity to work with our global tech team from Silicon Valley and Sydney. It is a leading data company with a start-up culture. People in the team are friendly, highly motivated, and extremely bright. Our team tries to maintain a work climate of professionalism, innovation, career growth, and fun. And we only want people who wants to make a huge impact to the AI world instead of just a job!
Responsibilities
The ideal candidate has a strong background in building test framework, stress & performance testing, service/integration level testing, and optimization. Some organizations refer to this a Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET). Build and upgrade/maintain test environments to ensure test environment stability and quality of the products. You will be working with the development teams to build code and provide insight into the performance, scalability customer usage and failure analysis, generate test data, and simulations. You will be navigating the codebase/API, identify weak spots and constantly design better and creative ways to break software and identify potential problems. Write moderately complex code/scripts to test systems, implementing test harnesses and infrastructure as necessary. You have the hands-on ability to automate repeated tasks and build test coverage through existing or new infrastructure.
- Work closely with architects, developers to design, build and extend API and end-to-end automation framework from scratch upon proven open source or commercial tools.
- Support multiple test environments upgrade and maintenance as needed.
- Continuously improve the existing automation, speed, quality and automate repeated tasks.
- Build test coverage through existing or new infrastructure.
- Design & develop & debug functional automation framework. Automate repeated tasks and build test coverage through existing or new infrastructure
Skills & Experience
- 3 - 5 years of experience in development and/or testing automation tools.
- Expert knowledge of building API test automation frameworks & projects from scratch.
- Experience using frontend automation test frameworks, such as Selenium/PhantomJs, etc.
- Experience using Jenkins or Travis CI, Kubernetes and Docker
- Experience using load testing tools to build a framework, such as JMeter, Grinder, Gatling, Postman, SOASTA, etc.
- Experience with functional testing frameworks such as RSpec, pytests, JUnit, TestNG.
工作职责
- 与架构师，开发人员密切合作，根据经过验证的开源或商业工具，从头开始设计，构建和扩 展API和端到端自动化框架。
- 根据需要支持多个测试环境升级和维护。
- 不断改进现有的自动化，速度，质量和自动化重复任务
- 通过现有或新的基础架构构建测试覆盖。
- 设计和开发和调试功能自动化框架。通过现有或新的基础架构自动执行重复任务并构建测试覆盖
技能和经验
- 3-5年的自动化工具开发和/或测试经验。
- 从头开始构建API测试自动化框架和项目的专业知识。
- 使用前端自动化测试框架的经验，例如Selenium / PhantomJs等。
- 使用Jenkins或Travis CI，Kubernetes和Docker的经验
- 使用负载测试工具构建框架的经验，例如JMeter，Grinder，Gatling，Postman，SOASTA等
- 具有RSpec，pytests，JUnit，TestNG等功能测试框架的经验。
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DETAILED JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Daily bank reconciliations and other bank transactions for all bank accounts.
- AR receipting and any other associated journals.
- Processing of credit card expenses and reconciliations, cash reimbursements and spend authorizations.
- Reconciles general and subsidiary bank accounts by gathering and balancing information.
- Corrects errors by posting adjusting journal entries.
- Maintains general ledger accounts; adjusting entries for amortizations prepaids; and preparing expenses accruals.
- Assist in the processing of balance sheets, income statements and other financial statements according to legal and company accounting and financial guidelines
- Prepare and submit weekly/monthly cash and bank balance reports and credit card & cash advances monitoring for all entities.
- Assist senior accountants in the preparation of monthly/yearly closings.
- Assist with other transactional accounting task.
REQUIRED EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATION:
- Bachelor of Science in Accountancy Graduate/ Major in Accountancy/ Management Accounting
REQUIRED YEARS OF EXPERIENCE:
- With 2 years plus accounting work experience
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
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Appen collects and labels images, text, speech, audio, and video used to build and continuously improve the world’s most innovative artificial intelligence systems.
With expertise in more than 180 languages, a global crowd of over 1 million skilled contractors, and the industry’s most advanced AI-assisted data annotation platform, Appen solutions provide the quality, security, and speed required by leaders in technology, automotive, financial services, retail, manufacturing, and governments worldwide.
Founded in 1996, Appen has customers and offices around the world. Appen is listed on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) under the symbol APX.
Position Summary:
The Senior Marketing Manager role at Appen is an exciting opportunity to help shape the future of the company by supporting our global lead generation efforts and brand communication. Appen is making a strategic investment in marketing to support the company’s growth. The right candidate is proactive, results-driven and can manage multiple initiatives simultaneously.
This role reports to the VP of Marketing and is based in Appen’s Kirkland, WA office.
Responsibilities:
- Content Marketing: Build and own the content marketing plan for Appen, focused on building thought leadership and generating leads. Develop core content that aligns to strategic priorities and generates leads. Ensure that content aligns to SEO strategy. Create distribution plan for content into key channels. Write blogs and other content; manage network of content writers to generate whitepapers, case studies, etc.
- Customer Evidence: Build, launch and manage new customer evidence program including case studies, customers speakers for events, private references, etc.
- Product Marketing: develop collateral to support Appen’s solutions and services
- Corporate Blog: develop and manage blog calendar; work across the organization to generate content. Track engagement with blog.
- Sales content: assist in development of RFP responses, presentation content, etc.
- Report results in Quarterly Business Review meetings
- Support other marketing related initiatives as needed
Desired experience and skills:
- 5-8 years of successful B2B Marketing experience, preferably in high tech
- Proven track record of B2B content marketing strategy development and execution; experience with developing webinars, whitepapers, case studies and other B2B content
- Strong writing experience; has samples to share for review of blog posts, product collateral, etc.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with multiple stakeholders
- Experience working with global sales teams
- Self-starter with strong attention to detail
- Strong communication, multi-tasking and collaboration skills
- Experience working with marketing automation is a plus
- Global Marketing experience is a plus
- Some travel required
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
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Appen is the world's leading innovative technology company, providing high-quality language and data services for machine learning and artificial intelligence. Appen is headquartered in Sydney, Australia and has subsidiaries in United States, United Kingdom, Philippines, and China. Appen has more than 20 years of experience in collecting and processing a variety of data, including data types such as speech, text, and images, etc. Appen has a pool of more than 1 million prequalified crowd resources around the world able to provide data collection and processing services in more than 180 languages. Appen’s client include global leaders in high-tech, automotive, e-commerce, etc. and governments to help them develop and improve products and technologies based on natural language understanding and machine learning. Appen is listed on the Australian Stock Exchange with stock code: APX
Position Summary: (MUST BE COMMUTABLE TO MENLO PARK, CA - DAILY)
We're looking for linguists to help process language data for text-to-speech and speech recognition technologies. We're looking for linguists who are native speakers of American English, UK English, or Latin American Spanish, who are familiar with waveforms, spectrograms, and phonetics. Will provide pronunciation information, develop and/or improve phonetic transcription guidelines, evaluate speech data for dialectal variation, and curate audio, text, and spectrograms from text-to-speech recording sessions.
This is a full-time position onsite at the client’s facility in the San Francisco Bay Area. The work is scheduled to start asap and expected to last through the calendar year. Successful candidates will need to pass a SAMPA and proofreading test as well as a background check.
Key Responsibilities:
Onsite Lead Phonetician
- Source and proofread texts for recording scripts
- Phonetically transcribe speech data according to guidelines
- Orthographically transcribe speech data match corresponding audio files
- Align speech data to corresponding waveforms/spectrograms, consistent with guidelines
- Follow/improve existing documentation
- Enrich natural language data sets
- Handling personnel issues
- Weekly quality checks of remote linguists’ data
- Handling data transfer between internal and external tools
- Communicating announcements, feedback, etc.
Qualifications
- A. Degree in Linguistics, Speech Science or related field
- Experience/interest in linguistics, especially phonology, phonetics, dialectology
- Native speaker of US English, UK English, or Spanish
- Experience/proficiency with transcription systems (such as SAMPA, IPA)
- Praat and/or equivalent familiarity with spectrograms
- Collaborative and solution oriented attitude
- Ability to quickly learn new skills and adapt to a changing environment
- Ability to focus on a single task for multiple hours
- Strong attention to detail
- Communicates clearly verbally and via email
- Available fulltime (40 hrs weekly)
- Able to work onsite in the San Francisco Bay Area
Preferred Qualifications
- Advanced degree and/or industry experience
- Fluency in two or more natural languages
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
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Appen has an opportunity for a Vendor Management Specialist to join a dynamic, global team, supporting clients in North America, Europe, Asia and Australia. Applications are invited from candidates with experience in global supplier management.
Responsibilities
- Prepare Request for Quotation/Proposal documents and negotiate pricing with Appen’s subcontractors across the globe.
- Manage and maintain Appen’s vendor database, including quotations used for pricing proposals
- Assess vendor suitability through review of quotations and in-depth due diligence calls in order to make recommendations for vendor selection
- Standardize all vendor-related documentation, such as subcontracts and requests for quotation
- Compare and evaluate offers from suppliers
- Negotiate contract terms of agreement and pricing
- Liaise with other internal departments as required to resolve vendor’s issues and questions, and manage vendor escalations during project execution
- Maintain positive relationships with key vendors to ensure product is high quality and delivered on time
- Support the Sales team on proposal preparation as required including coordination of external inputs where needed.
Experience & Skills
- Relevant BA/BS degree with 3+ years’ experience in vendor management, consulting or sourcing
- Good knowledge of vendor sourcing practices (researching, evaluating and liaising with vendors)
- Solid analytical skills, with the ability to create financial reports and conduct cost analyses
- Good analytical and negotiation skills and the capability to develop creative solutions
- Confident in communicating with stakeholders across the globe in a variety of cultural contexts and good relationship building skills
- Accountable and results-driven
- A team player who is willing to work flexible hours within a global team across different timezones Confident user of MS Office tools, especially Excel and Word
*Candidate will not considered if they unable to travel to Chatswood Monday to Friday.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
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Appen is the world's leading innovative technology company, providing high-quality language and data services for machine learning and artificial intelligence. Appen is headquartered in Sydney, Australia and has subsidiaries in United States, United Kingdom, Philippines, and China. Appen has more than 20 years of experience in collecting and processing a variety of data, including data types such as speech, text, and images, etc. Appen has a pool of more than 1 million prequalified crowd resources around the world able to provide data collection and processing services in more than 180 languages. Appen’s client include global leaders in high-tech, automotive, e-commerce, etc. and governments to help them develop and improve products and technologies based on natural language understanding and machine learning. Appen is listed on the Australian Stock Exchange with stock code: APX
Position Summary :
We are looking for a Receptionist to manage our front desk on a daily basis and to perform a variety of administrative and clerical tasks.
As a Receptionist, you will be the first point of contact for our company. Our Receptionist’s duties include offering administrative support across the organization. You will welcome guests and greet people who visit the business. You will also coordinate front-desk activities, including distributing correspondence or deliveries and redirecting phone calls along with assisting/resolving queries and issues.
Must be able to commute to our Kirkland, WA office daily
Internal contacts (list stakeholders for this role)
Executives, divisional management within teams, general staff (employees, contractors, casuals)
External contacts
Vendors, suppliers, building management/facility maintenance, investors, potential investors, external visitors or casuals for projects or meetings and candidates for interviews etc.
Main Activities
- Greet and welcome guests on arrival to the office
- Direct visitors to the appropriate person and office
- Manage parking passes for visitors
- Answer, screen and forward incoming phone calls
- Ensure reception area, meeting rooms and kitchen are tidy and presentable
- Provide basic and accurate information to in-person and via phone/email enquiries
- Receive, sort and distribute daily mail/courier deliveries
- Maintain office security by following safety procedures and controlling access via the reception desk (issue visitor badges and office access cards)
- Order office and kitchen supplies and keep inventory of stock
- Monitor meeting calendars and assist with room bookings
- Perform other clerical receptionist duties such as filing, photocopying, scanning, archiving
- Create and maintain DocuSign contracts/NDA’s
- Assist Executive Assistant or teams with ad hoc projects and tasks
Key Skills
- Proven work experience as a Receptionist, Front Office, Customer Service Representative or similar role (2 years is acceptable as a starting point)
- Solid written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to be resourceful and proactive when issues arise
- Excellent organizational skills
- Multitasking and time-management skills, with the ability to prioritize tasks
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite
- Professional attitude and appearance; customer service attitude
- High school completion; additional certification in Office Management or completed tertiary degree is a plus
Typical Experience
To be successful in this role as the Receptionist, you should have a pleasant personality, as this is also a customer service role. You should also be able to deal with priority tasks in a timely and effective manner, while streamlining regular office operations.
Multitasking and organizational management skills are essential for this position.
Other comments
Ultimately, a Receptionist’s duties and responsibilities are to ensure the front desk runs smoothly and welcomes guests positively and executes all administrative tasks to the highest quality standards.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
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Appen is the world's leading innovative technology company, providing high-quality language and data services for machine learning and artificial intelligence. Appen is headquartered in Sydney, Australia and has subsidiaries in United States, United Kingdom, Philippines, and China. Appen has more than 20 years of experience in collecting and processing a variety of data, including data types such as speech, text, and images, etc. Appen has a pool of more than 1 million prequalified crowd resources around the world able to provide data collection and processing services in more than 180 languages. Appen’s client include global leaders in high-tech, automotive, e-commerce, etc. and governments to help them develop and improve products and technologies based on natural language understanding and machine learning. Appen is listed on the Australian Stock Exchange with stock code: APX
Position Summary: (MUST LIVE IN THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA)
Artificial Intelligence is transforming the world in almost every industry. We know only good training-data produces the best machine learning solutions. The AI world is starving for great training data, however, creating training data with high quality in a scalable way is very challenging and very few companies do it well. Appen is the global leader in the development of high-quality training datasets for machine learning. We bring over 20 years of experience in capturing and enriching a wide variety of data types including speech, audio, text, image and video.
The Appen Tech team solves AI data problems by combining the power of humans and technology. We are seeking a machine learning infrastructure engineer with hands-on expertise in big data, cloud computing, machine learning, and data analytics to build AI solutions to improve millions of annotators’ efficiency at scale. In this role, you will be the part of a small team solving very interesting technical problems at the intersection of various exciting domains like Machine Learning, Big Data, Distributed Systems, Cloud Computing, and High-Performance Computing. Your work will have an enormous impact on Appen's long-term success.
Responsibilities:
- Building core machine learning infrastructure, which includes distributed systems, abstractions, development tools, data ETL, model hosting/serving/inference pipelines.
- Building continuous integration, testing, and deployment pipelines in cloud computing environments
- Building data logging, tracking, analyzing, monitoring and reporting pipelines in cloud computing environments
Requirements:
- Bachelor or MS - (preferred) in Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, or equivalent is required for this position.
- Basic understanding of machine learning
- Working experience of building data pipelines using big data tools (Hadoop/Spark/Airflow)
- Working experience of building distributed systems, including real-time streaming and batch data processing
- Working experience of deploying machine learned models into real-world settings.
- Working experience of building scalable Restful API services.
- Working experience of deploying and operating high availability production systems in the cloud such as AWS, GCP or Azure
- Strong communication skills.
- Strong overall programming ability.
- Working knowledge of SQL
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. Please note that by applying to this role, you are agreeing to be considered for multiple positions. This is a general description of the qualifications and skills required for positions of this type of role.