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Forward Deployed Software Engineer

Encord · San Francisco · On-site

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About Encord

Encord is the multimodal data layer for physical AI. Manage, curate, annotate, and align petabytes of data - from sensor streams to video to text. Trusted by 300+ AI teams including Woven by Toyota, AXA, UiPath, Zipline, and more. Backed by Y Combinator and CRV.

About the role

We're looking for an exceptional Forward Deployed Software Engineer (FDSE) to join our product engineering team. This is an engineering-first role: FDSEs are the technical owners who take the Encord platform into our most strategic and advanced customer environments, working directly with clients' engineering teams to identify problems and design, build, and ship the solutions that solve them.

What they're looking for

  • Design and ship high-quality, production-grade code that integrates Encord into customers' most complex data and ML pipelines
  • Own system design decisions for customer deployments, balancing correctness, scalability, and speed
  • Work directly with clients' engineering teams to diagnose problems, scope solutions, and ship fixes end-to-end
  • Build data integrations and technical solutions that support customer onboarding, adoption, and scale at pace
  • Communicate technical plans and tradeoffs clearly to both engineering counterparts and non-technical stakeholders
  • Operate with a high degree of autonomy: identify the right problem to solve, decide how to solve it, and see it through with minimal oversight
More about this role

Encord is the universal data layer for AI that helps 300+ AI teams train and run models on the right data. Our platform indexes, curates, annotates, and evaluates data across the full AI lifecycle, from development through production. Trusted by Woven by Toyota, AXA, UiPath, Zipline, and more.

We're an ambitious team of 100+ working at the frontier of AI and have raised $60M in Series C funding from Wellington Management, CRV, Next47 and Y Combinator.

We're looking for an exceptional Forward Deployed Software Engineer (FDSE) to join our product engineering team. This is an engineering-first role: FDSEs are the technical owners who take the Encord platform into our most strategic and advanced customer environments, working directly with clients' engineering teams to identify problems and design, build, and ship the solutions that solve them.

As an early member of the Forward Deployed team, you'll have an outsized impact on shaping a critical function for Encord and our customers, in a role that combines hands-on engineering with direct client ownership. You’ll do tough system design calls under real customer load, and customers will trust you to get their hardest integration and...

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