# Member of Technical Staff, Forward Deployed at Sieve

- Company: Sieve
- What the company does: High-quality video, audio, image, and interaction data for frontier AI. Backed by Y Combinator and AI Grant.
- Company website: https://sievedata.com/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: San Francisco
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $150K to $350K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-05-14
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/sieve/d294868e-1b94-425c-934b-b1cf806e05aa
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/sieve-member-of-technical-staff-forward-deployed/

## About the role

As a Forward Deployed Engineer at Sieve, you’ll work on highly specific dataset problems for frontier AI labs. We're looking for someone with a strong bias to action who likes working closely with customers, untangling messy requirements, and shipping fast. You’ll work closely with customers and internal teams to understand exactly what data is needed, then turn ambiguous requirements into production systems that can find, generate, filter, transform, evaluate, and package high-quality video datasets at scale.

## What they're looking for

- Comfortable working directly with customers or external teams to translate ambiguous needs into concrete technical systems
- Strong Python developer with hands-on experience in PyTorch or similar ML frameworks
- Experience building custom algorithms, model workflows, or large-scale data pipelines
- Strong intuition for dataset quality, filtering, labeling, evaluation, and edge cases
- Able to break customer-level goals down into the models, heuristics, infrastructure, and QA steps needed to deliver
- Writes clean, maintainable code and can move quickly without creating brittle systems

Tags: Engineering