Strategic Projects Associate - Coding

AfterQuery · Operations

Pay: $80,000–$130,000/yr
Where: San Francisco
Posted: Feb 10

You'll work with the world's leading AI organizations to build next-generation data solutions, managing expert teams across finance, software engineering, law, and more to deliver high-quality outputs at scale. You'll shape the dataset specifications that directly influence how frontier models are trained and evaluated, owning projects end-to-end from scoping through delivery in a fast-moving, high-stakes environment. Along the way, you'll pick up broad operational experience, moving fluidly across building, analyzing, coordinating, and executing wherever the business needs it most.

What you'd do

Project and client management: Work with the world’s leading AI organizations to build next-generation data solutions that push the limits of model capability, while directly driving revenue.
Manage expert teams across domains: Lead and coordinate highly specialized contributors across fields like software engineering, data science, and machine learning.
Shape how AI systems are trained: Design dataset specifications that directly influence how frontier models are evaluated and improved. Your taste and judgement will shape what foundation models become.
Drive high-impact execution end-to-end: Own critical projects from idea to delivery. From scoping, executing, iterating, and shipping in a fast-moving, high-stakes environment, you will touch it all.
Gain top tier operational experience: Support the team across a range of operational initiatives that will directly contribute to the future of AfterQuery.
You will work across multiple parts of the business in the same week, ranging from building, analyzing, coordinating, and executing where needed most.

What they want

Strong technical background: CS degree, engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated ability to ship technical projects
High agency, drive, and a strong work ethic; thrive in ambiguity and execute with minimal direction
Passion for AI and interest in entrepreneurship; enjoy experimenting with new tools (experience with Claude Code is a plus)
Competitive nature and demonstrated past success
Strong leadership experience and excellent written and verbal communication skills
Thrive in fast-moving, high-impact environments with bias towards action, while balancing attention to detail
Proficiency in Python and comfort writing production-quality code

About AfterQuery · Operations

AfterQuery is an applied research lab curating data solutions for foundation model development. We serve every frontier AI lab with the mission of delivering the best data to power the best models. In doing so, we can make expertise that once took a lifetime to build available to anyone who needs it. Our customers are the ones building the foundation models themselves and our work sits directly in the loop of how those systems improve.