San Carlos, California, United States
Interested in languages and tech
- Coordinated a diverse portfolio of AI projects across pre-training, SFT and RLHF, spanning text and multimodal outputs in both English and multilingual locales - Reported on KPIs, edge cases and misalignments to leadership - Onboarded team members into new projects and developed training materials for large-scale annotation projects with several hundred tutors - Played a pivotal role in the company's localization efforts by overseeing the launch of the Grok app into 40+ languages, managing a roster 50+ active translators, onboarding new members, creating translation and localization testing guidelines, and providing screenshots and glossary entries for better context - Managed a team of 15 domestic and international direct reports, providing project guidance, HR support and performance reviews - Assisted in recruitment efforts by screening and interviewing candidates
- Labeled data in both English and German - QAed peers' work and provided detailed feedback - Flagged edge cases and proposed guideline clarifications
- Annotated datasets in English and German to train machine learning models for Amazon Search including its flagship AI-powered shopping assistant Rufus
- Negotiated and executed contracts with subcontractors and suppliers - Prepared budgets for clients - Managed scheduling and tracked revisions to project specifications - Assigned tasks to team members - Led modernization effort by rolling out Slack, Zoom, DocuSign and Fieldwire
- Translated and edited speeches and official correspondence for the German Ambassador to the UN and other high-ranking German officials. - Provided on-site English interpreting to German guests - Attended UN meetings and wrote reports for leadership - Compiled weekly reports of English-language media relevant to the German Mission's geopolitical objectives