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Research & Product Lead(AI Model Training) with Early Stage/ Startup/Founder Exp

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$150,000 - 250,000 yearly

Job Description - Research & Product Lead(AI Model Training) with Early Stage/ Startup/Founder Exp


Salary - $150,000 - $250,000

 


What You'll Own

 

Build and manage relationships with frontier AI labs and highly technical customers

 

Translate customer needs into internal product and research priorities

 

Operate as a strategic partner to both external customers and internal technical teams

 

Drive cross-functional execution across research, product, operations, and partnerships

 

Help identify operational bottlenecks and implement scalable systems and processes

 

Support high-priority strategic initiatives across the company

 

Work closely with researchers, engineers, and leadership on ambiguous, fast-moving projects

 

Navigate technical conversations around datasets, model performance, infrastructure, and AI workflows

 

Help shape how Sieve scales customer engagement and internal operations as the company grows

 

Contribute wherever needed as a high-leverage generalist operator

 

Requirements

Must-Have

 

Excellent general problem solving skills

 

Bachelor's degree in computer science (or equivalent technical degree)

 

Strong understanding of ML and AI workflows, particularly around data pipelines and model training

 

Enough technical depth to hold substantive conversations with engineers and researchers at frontier AI labs

 

Familiarity with how data quality, pipeline architecture, and dataset composition affect model training outcomes

 

Excellent written and verbal communication that commands credibility with senior technical stakeholders

 

Comfort translating between engineering and business audiences fluently

 

High curiosity and high EQ

 

Scrappy and able to pick things up on the job in a fast-moving startup environment

 

In-person at Sieve SF HQ 5 days a week

 

Nice-to-Have

 

Senior track: existing relationships at AI labs or frontier model companies (highest-signal background for the senior track)

 

Senior track: background at a human data company (Scale, Surge, Sapien, Mercor, Invisible, Toloka, Snorkel, Defined.ai, Datasaur)

 

Generalist track: engineering degree paired with 1-2 years at MBB, top consulting, banking, or APM at an AI company

 

Background in video, media, or content-related technologies

 

Prior early-stage startup experience, especially as an early hire who saw a customer-facing function get built from zero

 

Experience in product, technical operations, or a customer-facing technical role


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