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Head of Forward Deployed Engineering

Snorkel AI · New York City, NY (Hybrid); San Francisco, CA (Hybrid) · Hybrid

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About Snorkel AI

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.

About the role

In this role, you will build and lead our forward-deployed engineering (FDE) team, working directly with leading labs and enterprises to scope, build and deliver high quality datasets to support their most critical AI initiatives.

What they're looking for

  • 10+ years of experience in applied data or ML engineering roles, including 5+ years leading high-performing technical teams in hands-on management capacity
  • Demonstrated success in customer facing roles, with a strong enthusiasm for data pipelines and LLM-based workflows
  • Proven track record of managing technical field teams in fast-paced, delivery-focused environments with competing priorities
  • Experience as a player-coach—comfortable being hands-on while supporting and scaling the team
  • Proven ability to thrive in fast-paced, ambiguous environments with cross-functional stakeholders
  • Strong practical experience with LLM-based workflows, Python, SQL, and data tooling (e.g., pandas, Plotly, Streamlit, Dash)
More about this role

At Snorkel, we believe meaningful AI doesn’t start with the model, it starts with the data.

We’re on a mission to help enterprises transform expert knowledge into specialized AI at scale. The AI landscape has gone through incredible changes since 2015, when Snorkel started as a research project in the Stanford AI Lab, to the generative AI breakthroughs of today. But one thing has remained constant: the data you use to build AI is the key to achieving differentiation, high performance, and production-ready systems. We work with some of the world’s largest organizations to empower scientists, engineers, financial experts, product creators, journalists, and more to build custom AI with their data faster than ever before. Excited to help us redefine how AI is built? Apply to be the newest Snorkeler!

In this role, you will build and lead our forward-deployed engineering (FDE) team, working directly with leading labs and enterprises to scope, build and deliver high quality datasets to support their most critical AI initiatives.

You’ll lead a team that will own quality in the end-to-end data pipeline . This will include working with customers to define what “good” data looks like to...

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