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Forward Deployed Engineer, Audio

Protege · Remote · Remote

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About Protege

Protege is the trusted source for AI-ready, real world data and expertise at every stage of the AI lifecycle. Backed by a16z and CRV.

About the role

We are building Protege to solve the biggest unmet need in AI — getting access to the right training data. The process today is time intensive, incredibly expensive, and often ends in failure. The Protege platform facilitates the secure, efficient, and privacy-centric exchange of AI training data.

What they're looking for

  • • 3+ years of experience as an engineer, including meaningful exposure to customers or external technical stakeholders
  • • Experience working directly with media data, bonus points for direct work with audio data
  • • Experience building and operating systems that process, analyze, or deliver data at scale
  • • Customer-facing ability, including translating ambiguous requirements, communicating trade-offs, and building trust with technical stakeholders
  • • Demonstrated end-to-end ownership, from initial problem definition through implementation, validation, and support
  • • High ambiguity tolerance and bias to action, with the judgment to know when to investigate further or push back
More about this role

We are building Protege to solve the biggest unmet need in AI — getting access to the right training data. The process today is time intensive, incredibly expensive, and often ends in failure. The Protege platform facilitates the secure, efficient, and privacy-centric exchange of AI training data.

Solving AI’s data problem is a generational opportunity. We’re backed by world-class investors and already powering partnerships with some of the most ambitious teams in AI. The company that succeeds will be one of the largest in AI — and in tech.

We’re a lean, fast-moving, high-trust team of builders who are obsessed with velocity and impact. Our culture is built for people who thrive on ambiguity, own outcomes, and want to shape the future of data and AI.

Protege is hiring an FDE to support our audio vertical. This is an engineering role with two key mandates: own the technical success for all audio customers, and build the reusable pipes that enable future scale. You will partner closely with the GM of the vertical, product and platform engineering, Data Lab, and commercial teams to navigate external requirements and develop solutions to execute on those requirements. Audio is a...

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