Careers
Help build the foundation.
We are hiring engineers, researchers, and annotation specialists across Nairobi, Lagos, and Johannesburg — with remote roles across the continent.
Data Engineer
Design the pipelines that move raw data through curation, annotation, validation, and governed export.
Platform & Engineering
Nairobi, Kenya
ApplyAnnotation Specialist — African Languages
Swahili, Yoruba, Hausa, Amharic, and 30+ more languages. Native-speaker judgment applied at production scale.
Expert Network
Remote · Africa
ApplyNLP Researcher — Low-Resource Languages
Advance code-switching handling, dialect-aware schemas, and evaluation for languages with little written history.
Research
Nairobi, Kenya
ApplyQuality & Annotation Lead
Own inter-annotator agreement, arbitration workflows, and annotator development across active programs.
Expert Network
Lagos, Nigeria
ApplyDomain Expert Network — Agriculture, Healthcare & Finance
Lend specialist judgment to datasets where generalist annotators guess and experts know.
Expert Network
Remote · Africa
ApplyData Science Internship
A 6-month rotation through our methodology, from labeling functions to drift monitoring.
Data Science & Engineering
Nairobi, Kenya or Johannesburg, South Africa
ApplyDon't see your role? Send your background to hr@ruach.africa — we keep strong people on file.
Why Ruach
Work that outlives the model.
Continental impact
Every dataset you ship makes AI work better for 1.4 billion people.
Expert craft
We fund deep specialization, not assembly-line annotation.
Growth
A fast-scaling company at the centre of Africa's AI ecosystem.
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Build AI that works in Africa.
Begin with a pilot dataset, documented quality scores, and an output ready for model training.