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This role owns quality assurance and audit for data, working closely with the researchers who consume it and the teams who create it.\nIn This Role You Will\nOwn external data QA & audit: Build and run the end-to-end QA process for multimodal data ingested from third-party vendors and partners - sampling strategy, review workflows, pass/fail decisions, and audit trails - so data is verified before it reaches training.\n\nDefine quality standards: Partner with researchers to translate what \"good data\" means into concrete, measurable rubrics and acceptance criteria; keep them versioned and current as research needs evolve.\n\nBuild the system: Build the software interfaces, tooling, and infrastructure scale the system in an automated way - correctly sampling the right data for QA, internal QA checks, tracking dips in data quality from vendors and exposing those insights back to the vendors.\n\nManage vendor quality loops: Deliver structured, actionable feedback to vendors; coach them on standing up QA checks on their own side; 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