Artificial Intelligence (AI)is transforming government. Across Defense, Health and Human Services, Homeland Security and Emergency Management, Sciences, Natural Resources and Regulatory functions- all are recognizing the power of human-machine teaming. Nothing moves in AI and machine learning (ML) without training data, and only high-quality training data can produce accurate and robust AI/ML powered solutions. Creating high quality training data at the scale necessary to meet the demands of our government mission partners is incredibly challenging. Few companies can do it. Even fewer can do it well. Since 2017, Figure Eight Federal has proven it can do both.
In March 2019, Figure Eight was acquired by Appen. Headquartered in the National Capital Region, Figure Eight Federal was created to specifically serve the needs of our government customers. Together, Appen and Figure Eight Federal, combine the best of human and machine intelligence to provide high-quality annotated training data that powers the world’s most innovative machine learning (ML) mission solutions. The Figure Eight platform enables ML and data-driven business solutions to scale across a diverse set of industries including retail, automotive, finance, manufacturing, agriculture, life sciences, robotics, and more. The Figure Eight platform transforms audio, video, text, and images into high-quality annotated data to support a variety of use cases ranging from computer vision and search relevance to data categorization and natural language processing (NLP). Learn more at www.f8-federal.com.
As a member of our team, you will be building annotation tools marking up text, audio, images, video and other datatypes for use in creating machine learning models. You will provide the amazing experiences for the users, fixing bugs as necessary and constantly working on improving the quality of our codebase.
Responsibilities
- Build Figure Eight Federal's client facing tools, including self-serving APIs, dashboards, reports
- Create prototypes, MVP and production software
- Technical input for new and existing product initiatives, assist with definition of product direction
- Define, design, troubleshoot, and debug complex, multi-tier distributed software applications
- Work with manager, engineers, product management and operation team to design and implement application features
- Estimate engineering effort, plan execution cycles, and rollout system changes
- Support product in a production environment on AWS
- Excellent knowledge of JavaScript and CSS
- 5+ years experience developing commercial web applications
- 3+ year experience with working with SQL (PostgreSQL) and NoSQL databases, AWS tooling
- 2+ year experience with working with Kafka
- 2+ year experience with working with Ruby and Ruby on Rails framework
- 2+ year experience with working with Kubernetes, docker
- 1+ year experience with working with Node.js platform
- 1+ year experience with React/Redux setup
- Proficiency with command line and Chrome Developer Tools
- Experience with Jira, Confluence
- Assertive "get things done" attitude
- Excellent communication skills (written and verbal)
- Ability to come in to the office 1-3 times per week
- Active clearance
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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