Innodata Inc.
Data & Annotation Engineer
About this role
Innodata seeks a Data & Annotation Engineer to manage annotation workflows, data ingestion, and governance documentation for a 20-week federal AI data platform initiative. You'll configure and operate the CVAT annotation pipeline, validate mission-aligned datasets, and produce labeled demonstration corpora in a secure IL4 environment while coordinating with AI and QA teams.
What you'll do
- Receive, validate, and ingest mission-aligned corpus data with ontology mapping and load reporting
- Configure and operate CVAT annotation pipeline against Phase 1 ruleset for production workflows
- Manage both self-service and white-glove annotation paths during Phase D corpus production
- Produce 50–100 labeled demonstration datasets from synthetic and mission-aligned content
- Create dataset documentation and DataCard provenance records for governance framework
- Support QA/Evaluation Lead on quality control execution and annotation dry-runs
What they're looking for
- CVAT platform deployment and day-to-day operation
- Annotated dataset ingest pipelines and schema mapping
- Python scripting for data wrangling and format conversion
- Full-motion video (FMV) annotation concepts and tooling
- Ontology alignment and format validation
- Federal data governance and CUI handling
- DataCard or ML data provenance frameworks
- Evaluation design and inter-annotator agreement (IAA) methodology
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement in Washington D.C.
- Hourly rate: $55–$60 based on experience
- Work on critical infrastructure Trust & Safety projects
- Federal IL4 secure environment experience
- Intensive 20-week project with clear deliverables
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Innodata Inc.
Innodata builds AI data infrastructure and solutions, specializing in LLM post-training pipelines, physical AI datasets for robotics, and audio/speech datasets for foundation models. The company is hiring AI/ML engineers, robotics solutions specialists, research engineers, and audio engineers to design data systems, evaluation frameworks, and quality assurance processes that enable cutting-edge AI model development.
View all jobs at Innodata Inc.Likely interview questions
- Walk us through your experience deploying and operating CVAT in production—what challenges have you encountered and how did you resolve them?
- Describe a time you managed a large annotated dataset ingest pipeline. How did you validate schema mapping and ensure ontology alignment?