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Founding Data Lead

xsci • United Kingdom
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Own XSci's data: how it is captured, how its quality is proven, and who may use it, as the first hire in a new data team. Design data models, run expert labeling programs, build eval harnesses, and ship production data services for a science certification platform. Requires ownership of expert data programs, frontier-lab data purchase experience, strong Python and SQL, and senior-level autonomy.

Key Highlights
Founding data role owning capture, quality, and access of expert scientific review data
Design data models, rubrics, gold sets, and inter-annotator agreement for expert evaluation
Run expert labeling programs end to end and stand up AI eval harnesses
Ship production data services (orchestration, storage, observability)
London or San Francisco Bay Area, hybrid; visa sponsorship available
Key Responsibilities
Design the data model for expert evaluation: task schemas, rubrics, gold sets, inter-annotator agreement, reviewer quality scoring
Capture the reviewing process itself, including draft history, revisions, and reasoning trail
Build provenance, consent, and usage rights into every record
Run expert labeling programs end to end
Stand up the eval harness benchmarking AI review output against expert ground truth
Make the dataset legible to outside readers via sample packs, data cards, and delivery formats
Work with the founder on data governance and access
Ship production data services (orchestration, storage, observability)
Technical Skills Required
Python SQL Cloud Infrastructure
Benefits & Perks
Meaningful equity
Visa sponsorship
Nice to Have
PhD or time in academia, scholarly publishing, or scientific tooling
LLM evaluation, LLM-as-judge pipelines, or preference data collection

Job Description

Founding Data Lead

Full-time · London or San Francisco Bay Area, hybrid.

About us

Science runs on trust, but the machinery meant to produce that trust is failing. Peer review is slow, opaque, inconsistent, and increasingly gamed. And a flood of AI-generated research is about to overwhelm a system that was already straining. No one is the credible, independent arbiter of research quality. We think there should be one.

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