Engineering Director at CODVO.AI leading surgical data annotation and programs with high throughput and quality standards. Managing complex video annotation projects and client relations in a hybrid setup.
Responsibilities
Provide strategic and operational leadership for a portfolio of high throughput, clinically defensible, audit ready surgical video annotation programs.
Own scale, standardization, automation leverage, quality systems, and client trust across multiple programs—ensuring predictable delivery, regulatory readiness, and measurable ROI on human in the loop operations.
Own end to end delivery for multiple concurrent surgical video annotation programs across clients, procedures, and modalities.
Set and enforce standard operating models from intake → de identification → annotation → QA/IRR → adjudication → dataset release + evidence packs.
Ensure programs meet or exceed SLAs, quality thresholds, and release timelines at scale.
Define and institutionalize annotation operating standards: Program playbooks, SOPs, Quality gates, Evidence pack structure, Dataset versioning discipline.
Ensure every program is reproducible, auditable, and clinically defensible.
Partner with senior clinical SMEs to define and approve procedure level ontologies (phases, steps, anatomy, tools, events).
Ensure consistent translation into labeling guidelines, UI constraints, and QA checks.
Own governance mechanisms to resolve clinical ambiguity, manage guideline evolution, and prevent ontology drift across programs.
Set the automation vision and roadmap for surgical video labeling: Pre-labeling + verification as default, Confidence/uncertainty based task routing, Active learning feedback loops.
Drive continuous reduction in cost per labeled minute and human effort per release.
Partner with ML, platform, and data engineering leaders to productionize automation gains.
Design and govern enterprise grade quality systems: Multi-rater strategies by label class, IRR standards, Calibration and retraining frameworks, Acceptance thresholds by use case (R&D vs regulated).
Ensure every dataset ships with a complete Evidence Pack: Provenance, QA & IRR reports, Adjudication logs, Clinical and delivery sign offs.
Own disagreement governance across programs: Escalation paths to senior adjudicators and clinicians, Systematic tracking of ambiguity categories, Closure of recurring issues via guideline and tooling updates.
Proactively identify delivery, quality, compliance, and reputational risks.
Ensure all annotation programs comply with de-identification standards, Data access controls, Logging, retention, and audit requirements.
Serve as executive owner for security reviews, audits, and vendor risk assessments (SOC2 / ISO aligned environments).
Act as senior escalation and trusted advisor for clients.
Lead executive level program reviews, roadmap discussions, and expansion opportunities.
Ensure PoCs convert into long-term, scaled production partnerships.
Build and lead a multi-layered delivery organization: Program Leads, Senior annotators & adjudicators, QA auditors, Training & calibration leads.
Define career pathways, certification standards, and succession plans.
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