Overview

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

1. Build the most efficient annotation platform to help millions of workers globally to complete their job more efficiently thus generating high quality training data.
2. The platform includes image annotation, video annotation, voice/video transcription, translation, text annotation, Lexington, data capture tools, and pre-annotation with machine learning.
3. Learn and understand AI data need in those fields and provide best platform to generate high quality data with least human effort.
4. Drive innovation in modern-architected, large-scaled web systems with backend-ed by big data application.
5. Technical lead for new and existing product initiatives, assist with definition of product direction.
6. Define, design, troubleshoot, and debug complex, multi-tier distributed software applications.
7. Work with manager, engineers, product management and Operation team to design and implement application features.
8. Estimate engineering effort, plan execution cycles, and rollout system changes

Requirements

1. BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science or related technical discipline (or equivalent).
2. Excellent knowledge of JavaScript and CSS.
3. 5+ years experience developing commercial web applications.
4. 5+ year experience with working with Ruby and Ruby on Rails or similar frameworks.
5. 1+ year experience with React/Redux setup.
6. Proficiency with command line and Chrome Developer Tools.
7. Experience with Git, Docker, Jira, Confluence.
8. Excellent problem-solving skills.
9. Working Experience in Multi-national Company is a plus.

Generally Desirable Traits

1. Go-getter – thinks creatively to work through, or importantly, around problems to deliver
2. Growth mindset – always looking to learn / collaborate and grow with others, comfortable being open / transparent about what they do not know
3. Results-oriented – values delivering capabilities over putting in the time

为什么加入我们？

1. 团队背景强。我们已经加入的同学有来自在 eBay 做搜索算法的，做支付的，也有来自支付宝做 NLP 算法的，更有来自大摩和瑞银做高频交易系统的各种牛人。
2. 技术氛围浓厚，前后端技术栈包括：Ruby/Rails, Java/Spring, NodeJs, Python/Flask, React Js, React Native. 我们也会采用 AI/大数据领域领先的技术选型来解决业务问题, 我们致力于利用技术改变 AI Data 领域。
3. 工作满一年后，performance 好的话，有机会 relocate 到美国硅谷 (Appen 研发的总部在硅谷).
4. 15 天年假
5. 上市公司，全员配股

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