# Director, Forward Deployed Researcher - Data as a Service at Snorkel AI

- Company: Snorkel AI
- What the company does: Snorkel AI builds specialized training data, benchmarks, and evaluation environments that help frontier models and agents perform in high-stakes domains. Backed by Greylock, Lightspeed and GV.
- Company website: https://www.snorkel.ai
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Principal and up
- Location: New York City, NY (Hybrid); San Francisco, CA (Hybrid); United States (Remote)
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $229K to $403K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-03-25
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/snorkelai/jobs/5837448004
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/snorkel-ai-director-forward-deployed-researcher-data-as-a-service/

## About the role

Snorkel AI is hiring a Director, Forward Deployed Researcher on the Data-as-a-service team. Your team will partner directly with frontier AI labs on their hardest data problems: scoping training data needs, designing RL environments, developing evaluation frameworks, and translating customer research objectives into actionable technical plans.

## What they're looking for

- 8+ years of experience in applied ML, AI solutions engineering, technical presales, or research-intensive customer-facing roles
- 5+ years managing or leading technical individual contributors, ideally in a presales or solutions engineering org
- Track record of hiring and developing technical talent
- Experience operating against revenue or pipeline goals in a GTM organization
- Excellent communication skills, able to coach a team, partner with sales leadership, and engage credibly with frontier AI researchers
- Ability to work in a fast-moving environment, comfortable with ambiguity and rapid iteration

Tags: DaaS Sales & Success