Linux System Administrator

About Company:

Our client is a Palo Alto–based AI infrastructure and talent platform founded in 2018. It helps companies connect with remote software developers using AI-powered vetting and matching technology. Originally branded as the “Intelligent Talent Cloud,”enabled companies to “spin up their engineering dream team in the cloud” by sourcing and managing vetted global talent.

In recent years, they have evolved to support AI infrastructure and AGI workflows, offering services in model training, fine-tuning, and deployment—powered by their internal AI platform, ALAN, and backed by a vast talent network. They reported $300 million in revenue and reached profitability. Their growth is driven by demand for annotated training data from AI labs, including major clients like OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, and Meta.

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Role Overview:

hands-on Ubuntu desktop users

This is not a coding or engineering role. It requires excellent computer usage skills, patience, and strong attention to detail.

Key Responsibilities:

• Reconstruct GUI Task Trajectories. For each provided task:
• Interpret the task instruction and text-only trajectory (Observation / Thought / Action).
• Recreate the workflow inside an Ubuntu desktop environment. Also, update the thought and observation, likewise to your provided screenshot
• Create New Tasks and perform the task based on the given existing prompts and annotate it with screenshots + action JSON in realistic Ubuntu desktop tasks (e.g., using VLC, LibreOffice, GIMP, browser tasks).
• Maintain Annotation Quality

Required Skills:

• Linux / Ubuntu Usage (Mandatory)
• You must be comfortable using Ubuntu Desktop as your primary or secondary OS, including:
• File Manager
• Desktop navigation, window switching, and settings
• Understanding of basic file paths and user directories

Open-source Application Experience (Required). You should know how to perform common tasks in:

• Chrome, VLC Media Player, LibreOffice Writer / Calc / Impress, GIMP, Thunderbird, VS Code

Preferred Qualifications:

• 1–3 years of experience in:
• IT helpdesk
• QA / manual software testing
• Linux desktop administration
• Data annotation projects involving UI tasks
• Familiarity with task recording or automation tools (optional)

What This Role IsNot:

• Not a programming, research job, creative engineering or coding or high-level design work
• Not suitable for beginners who use only smartphones or Windows casually

This is a precision-driven, GUI-based desktop annotation job.