Senior Associate, Domain Expert - Eastern Europe

Dataminr’s Domain Experts work with Dataminr’s AI platform in real time ensuring the alerts and intelligence we send to our clients are of the best possible quality. Domain Experts use deep human expertise to examine and analyze our data feeds and annotate, label, and edit signals in real time. You will be an integral part of our algorithm training process and our advanced realtime human-AI feedback loop that integrates key knowledge domains into our AI models and develops our AI platform.

As a Domain Expert, you will also play a key role in defining new factors to improve our alerts, data source coverage, machine learning, AI models, and AI tooling.

This role is open as remote (United Kingdom or Ireland) or hybrid, and requires the ability to work core hours of 7:00 am - 3:00 pm GMT in a real-time information environment. Please note that this role requires rotational weekend work as well as projects and meetings outside of business hours.

The opportunity

• Serve as an expert on Eastern Europe, Central Asia and Russian geopolitical developments and the relevant source environment and data sets associated with these areas to improve our AI models
• Monitor and analyse the quality of our data feeds
• Annotate and label complex real time events, making real-time decisions with incomplete data
• Own and develop projects to improve performance of AI models and AI tooling in the real time event detection space
• Collaborate and communicate about daily priorities in a team-centric environment

What you bring

At Dataminr, we value you for who you are. We encourage you to apply for this role, even if you don't meet every qualification. Our candidates are reviewed on the basis of their skill and potential to succeed.

• Bachelor's degree required; ideally with a concentration in: Political science, Russian language studies, Eastern Europe studies, security/conflict studies, or a closely related field 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 a plus
• An understanding of geopolitical risk and world events
• Passion for breaking news, current world events, technology, and a great understanding of both social media and publicly-available data
• Ability to interpret and succinctly describe ongoing, complex events with incomplete data
• Fluency with AI tools and LLMs, and experience using them to solve problems, improve workflows, and make efficiencies
• Enthusiastic approach to innovation and strategic thinking
• Ideally, previous experience of working in a real-time information environment