About the role

Centaur Overview:

Centaur AI is the modern data labeling solution driving AI innovation across the healthcare and life sciences industry. From agile startups and cutting-edge research labs to global pharmaceutical giants and Big Tech, we empower the entire spectrum of AI. Our expert crowd of 100k+ labelers, combined with our gamified collective-intelligence-based annotation platforms for motivation and quality control, ensures scalable, high-quality datasets are delivered at scale. We are backed by leading investors including Y Combinator, Matrix, and Accel, and a Series B led by SignalFire.

Position Overview:

As a Sales Engineer (Partnerships) at Centaur AI, you’ll be the technical engine behind our partner channel, making sure every deal we close though partners turns into a delivery customers can rely on.  Working cross-functionally with Partnerships, Sales, Operations, Engineering, and Legal, you will serve as the technical owner and facilitator of partner projects, from requirements review through dataset QC and delivery, so that each handoff to delivery is smooth. In this position you will report to the Senior Sales Engineer. 

Responsibilities:

• Partner Project Support: Scope, set up, and serve as the technical contact when a partner buys annotation, evaluation or benchmarks from Centaur
• Dataset Review & Quality Control (QC): Review datasets against customer requirements with minimal oversight. Help build a robust, repeatable QC process, coordinating de-identification, clinician review, and deeper Quality Assurance as needed.
• Data Management: Execute and manage data delivery with minimal oversight, working directly in AWS, GCP, Azure, and SFTP to move large volumes of data. Verify completeness and integrity before anything is sent.
• Cross-Functional Communication: Expertly communicate to technical and non-technical audiences, including sharing customer feedback, and work hands-on with partners, Operations, and Engineering to drive revisions and the sending and technical receipt of data.
• Contract & Scope Alignment: Review the technical scope in both customer and partner contracts, support the technical documentation of that scope, and work with Sales, the Head of Partnerships, and Legal to resolve mismatches before execution.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Life Sciences, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of demonstrated, hands-on technical experience in a client-facing role such as solutions or sales engineering, technical project or program management, or data operations, preferably in a fast-paced environment (healthcare related experience, a plus).
• Proven project management experience: Has run multiple technical projects simultaneously, owning timelines, stakeholders, and handoffs with little to no oversight. Strong presentation skills, including leading live demos, and comfortable in client-facing roles.
• Success serving as the technical point of contact for customers or partners, including handling their feedback directly.
• Experience in data annotation, dataset curation, or model eval required (healthcare data, a plus).

Don’t meet every requirement? At Centaur, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace. So, if you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t perfectly align with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You might just be the right candidate for this or other roles!

Preferred Skills:

• Moving large volumes of data between systems with little to no oversight, including S3, GCP, Azure, and SFTP, and verifying integrity with checksums and manifests.
• SQL and scripting (for example Python or shell) to inspect, validate, and package data.
• Reviewing datasets against specifications and building or improving QC processes.Translating between technical and non-technical stakeholders, including handling quality feedback from annotation, evaluation and data purchasers.
• Reviewing contracts and SOWs to check technical scope, with familiarity with data licensing, usage rights, and HIPAA de-identification. Experience with BAAs or DUAs is a plus.
• Strong organization and independence: you can run many open deals and deliveries at once and keep records current.
• Strongly Preferred: familiarity with healthcare data types and standards (DICOM, EHR, claims, HL7, FHIR)

Why join Centaur?

• Competitive salary and equity
• Benefits include health insurance, 401k plan, professional development stipend, and partially reimbursed coworking space
• Vacation and leave: Four weeks of paid vacation plus 11 annual paid holidays and generous parental leave (transitioning unlimited/responsible PTO in Jan 2027).
• Remote first with consistent team interaction and onsites
• Fabulous company culture centered around our values:
  • Act with integrity: We always do what is right for ourselves, our team, our customers, our community and the world.
  • Create change: Believe in ideas that seem unrealistic or unconventional. Take initiative to improve the company and the world, unprompted.
  • Keep learning: Seek out opportunities to ask questions, test assumptions, learn, and improve. Stay curious.
  • Every voice counts: Collective intelligence is core to our company. Speak your mind. We are more than the sum of our parts.

Our Commitment to Diversity

Centaur AI is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are deeply committed to building and supporting a diverse team through inclusive, equitable hiring practices.

U.S. citizens and those authorized to work in the U.S. are encouraged to apply.

About Centaur

At Centaur, we create superior-quality data by turning annotation into an arena where experts and AI compete. The best AI models aren’t just trained and evaluated with human data; they’re built with superhuman data. The strongest datasets emerge through collective intelligence, where humans and machines work together to outperform either one alone.