# Forward Deployed Engineering Manager at Labelbox

- Company: Labelbox
- What the company does: From environments to custom evaluations, we partner with over 90% of leading AI labs in the US and the innovators defining the next frontier of AI. Backed by Kleiner Perkins, a16z and SoftBank VF.
- Company website: https://labelbox.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: San Francisco Bay Area
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-06-08
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/labelbox/jobs/5158989007
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/labelbox-forward-deployed-engineering-manager/

## About the role

The FDE Manager leads and grows the team of Forward Deployed Engineers who own the high-level technical side of our customer data programs. FDEs scope tasks, design the pipelines and measurement that turn a customer's goal into a training signal, write the instructions that guide Alignerrs, and work out what each customer actually needs from their data.

## What they're looking for

- A strong forward-deployed / FDE background, or significant experience managing technical or delivery people — and readiness to be a hands-on, player-coach manager
- Strong technical fluency in our domain: enough depth in frontier-data work, RL environments, data pipelines, and quality/evaluation to coach credibly on scoping, pipelines, judge design, and data quality
- Excellent judgment on what makes data genuinely useful to a customer — how to translate ambiguous requirements into clear plans, and how to tell whether data will actually move a model
- A track record of developing people and giving direct, useful feedback
- A high bar for quality paired with the ability to deliver against ambitious timelines
- Comfort operating in ambiguous, fast-scaling environments where the processes are still being built

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