Origin
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Bengaluru, Karnataka, IndiaFull-timeUpdated 7 weeks ago
Origin
ApplyOrigin (previously 10xConstruction) is building general-purpose autonomous robots for US construction to tackle rising costs, safety risks, and labour shortages. Our modular, multi-trade platform combines purpose-built hardware with real-time site intelligence to navigate complex environments and execute tasks with precision. Trained in high-fidelity simulation and already deployed on live sites, our robots deliver faster execution, stronger project economics, and meaningful cost savings. Join India’s talent-dense robotics team, with colleagues from IITs, Stanford, UCLA, and other leading institutions.
As Data Annotation and Collection Manager, you will build the operations engine that supplies high-quality real-world and simulated data to Origin’s perception and robot-learning teams. You will own collection protocols, annotation specifications, workforce and vendor execution, quality controls, data lineage, and delivery schedules. The role requires a strong blend of operational leadership, analytical rigour, and enough technical understanding to translate model needs into reliable datasets.
- Convert perception and robot-learning requirements into clear data collection plans, annotation ontologies, instructions, examples, and acceptance criteria.
- Plan and coordinate with external agencies and inhouse robot testing team for curated data collections based on inputs received from requesting team.
- Build, train, and manage internal annotators and external vendors; allocate work and track throughput, quality, and cost.
- Design sampling, review, adjudication, gold-set, inter-annotator agreement, and audit processes.
- Maintain dataset versions, metadata, provenance, consent and usage records, and handoffs to engineering.
- Partner with ML engineers to diagnose model failures and prioritise the next highest-value data.
- Build dashboards for coverage, quality, turnaround time, backlog, rework, and unit economics.
- Protect sensitive customer and site data through clear access, retention, and handling processes.
- 2+ years in data operations, annotation, data collection, ML operations, quality operations, or a related program-management role.
- 2+ years in managing external agencies and stakeholders.
- Experience leading people or vendors and delivering large, quality-controlled datasets on schedule.
- Mentored and trained junior staff to build a strong team.
- Strong ability to write precise annotation guidelines and convert ambiguous technical needs into repeatable workflows.
- Comfort with spreadsheets, dashboards, issue trackers, and data-quality metrics.
- Strong analytical judgement, attention to detail, and cross-functional communication.
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience in engineering, data, operations, or a related field.
- Computer vision, robotics, autonomous vehicles, mapping, speech, multimodal data, or other sensor-rich ML products.
- Teleoperation or embodied-AI data collection, video annotation, 3D point clouds, segmentation, tracking, or key-point labelling.
- Familiarity with Python, SQL, annotation platforms, privacy controls, and vendor contracting.