[Hiring] Project Lead, AI Model Training @NewtonX

Role Description

NewtonX is turning the world’s largest verified expert network into the evaluation, post-training, and audit data that enterprises and AI labs need to deploy AI in production. We build high-quality, expert-generated datasets that train and evaluate frontier AI systems.

This business is taking off, and we are expanding our Delivery team to meet it. We are hiring a Project Lead to own client engagements end to end, from scoping through delivery, on our data operations platform. You will be the client’s point of contact and the person accountable for the operational execution and the quality outcome across a portfolio of concurrent projects.

In this role you will:

• Scope and set up every engagement
• Run production
• Own the client relationship
• Deliver and close out
• Build the machine as you run it

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in data labeling, RLHF/SFT, or AI evaluation delivery
• Client-facing and credible
• Analytically rigorous
• A builder
• Exceptional at holding many threads
• Adaptable and resilient
• Discreet
• Valid US or Canadian work authorization required

Requirements

• Experience shipping real annotation or evaluation projects at a data labeling company or inside an AI lab
• Comfortable owning quality metrics, debugging stalled queues, and rewriting rubrics
• Data analysis skills using SQL or Python are a strong plus

Benefits

• Competitive compensation: $150-240K total on target compensation + participation in our company stock buying program
• Massive impact: the chance to help build a new business unit from the ground up with direct C-level influence
• Fast-track career growth toward operational and commercial leadership
• Excellent medical, dental, and vision insurance
• 401k match with immediate vesting
• Health savings/flexible savings account, and pre-tax commuter benefits
• Paid time off: vacation, holidays, sick, and parental leave
• A diverse, collaborative, and positive culture