Job Description: Domain Expert (Eastern Europe, Central Asia & Russia)

Employment Type: Full-time

Location Type: Remote (United Kingdom or Ireland) or Hybrid

Working Hours: Core hours of 7:00 am - 3:00 pm UK GMT/BST. Requires rotational weekend work and potential projects/meetings outside of business hours.

Position Overview

Dataminr's Domain Experts are crucial to our success, ensuring the highest quality alerts for our clients and advancing our AI platform. As a Domain Expert, you will examine and analyze data feeds, annotating, labeling, and editing signals in real-time. You will be integral to our algorithm training process and our human-AI feedback loop, embedding key knowledge domains into our AI models. You will also play a key role in defining new factors to enhance our alerts, data source coverage, machine learning, and AI models.

AI Innovation at Dataminr

Working at Dataminr offers the opportunity to engage with exciting AI trends daily, powering a revolutionary product that uncovers critical events worldwide as they unfold.

• Regenerative AI: Our AI technology, ReGenAI, automatically regenerates real-time Live Event Briefs as events develop.
• Agentic AI: Our recently launched Intel Agents autonomously generate critical context on real-time events, threats, and risks, providing clients with the clearest, most accurate view of ground-level situations.
• Multimodal AI: Our platform detects events from diverse data types, including images, video, sensor data, audio, and text in over 150 languages.

Responsibilities

• Serve as an expert on Eastern Europe, Central Asia, and Russian geopolitical developments and relevant data sources to improve our AI models.
• Monitor and analyze the quality of our data feeds.
• Annotate and label complex real-time events.
• Own and develop projects to improve the performance of our AI models in real-time event detection.
• Make real-time decisions with incomplete data.
• Work with multiple stakeholders across all offices to support region-specific training.
• Collaborate and communicate daily priorities in a team-centric environment.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree required. A concentration in Political Science, Russian Language Studies, Eastern Europe Studies, Security/Conflict Studies, or a closely related field is strongly preferred.
• Ability to monitor and analyze data with strong online research skills in a fast-paced environment, in Russian and English. Ukrainian, Belarusian, or Slavic languages are a plus.
• An understanding of geopolitical risk and world events.
• Passion for breaking news, current world events, technology, and a strong understanding of both social media and publicly-available data.
• Ability to interpret and succinctly describe ongoing, complex events with incomplete data.
• Enthusiastic approach to innovation and strategic thinking.
• Ideally, previous experience working in a real-time information environment.

About Dataminr

Dataminr is a mission-driven team of talented builders, creators, and visionaries making a real-world impact on how organizations respond to events. Our groundbreaking, AI-powered intelligence platform provides organizations with the earliest signals of emerging risks, events, and threats before they unfold. Trusted by two-thirds of the Fortune 50 and half of the Fortune 100, Dataminr's platform analyzes billions of public data inputs spanning text, image, video, audio, and sensor data.

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