cantina - Visual Data Curation Specialist
Requirements
• Strong visual judgment and the ability to explain how an image or video meets creative, technical, or research requirements. • A background in film, photography, animation, design, visual arts, media, or a related field, demonstrated through education, professional experience, or a portfolio. Prior experience in machine learning is not required. • Strong research skills, including the ability to investigate unfamiliar topics, assess sources, and turn findings into useful recommendations. • A systematic approach to organizing information and confidence using spreadsheets, databases, or digital asset management tools. • Clear communication, with the ability to translate visual observations into precise feedback for technical colleagues. • The ability to work independently, clarify open-ended requirements, prioritize tasks, and take ownership of work quality. • Curiosity about generative AI and the ability to learn new tools and workflows quickly. Prior machine learning experience is not required. • Hands-on experience in photography, filmmaking, video editing, animation, or other visual production. • Experience in content research, editorial curation, digital asset management, or archive research, including knowledge of visual content communities across platforms and cultures. • Familiarity with dataset curation, annotation, quality assurance, or model evaluation. • Experience with generative image or video tools, basic scripting, SQL, or workflow automation.
Responsibilities
• Identify and evaluate image and video sources across creator communities, specialist websites, archives and platforms such as YouTube, TikTok, Bilibili, Instagram and Vimeo. • Partner with researchers to translate model development priorities into clear sourcing briefs, selection criteria and content categories. • Assess content across aesthetics, technical quality and research relevance, considering factors such as composition, lighting, resolution, camera movement, subject motion and visual consistency. • Build and maintain a structured source catalogue with representative examples, relevant metadata, quality assessments and clear recommendations. • Identify gaps in coverage across subjects, styles, environments and types of motion, and propose targeted sourcing approaches to address them. • Review sample content with research and engineering colleagues, incorporate feedback and refine selection criteria as requirements evolve. • Document source provenance and available usage information, flagging ownership, licensing or access questions for review. • Develop repeatable curation workflows, tagging systems and quality guidelines, and identify tools that improve the efficiency and consistency of the work.
Benefits
• Competitive salary and generous company equity • Personal time off and paid holidays • Health insurance • Global travel insurance: Covers you when traveling internationally • Monthly spending stipend: $500 (~S$635) • Equipment: All equipment needed for your home office
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