# Head of Forward Deployed Engineering 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)
- Work setup: Hybrid
- Pay: $269K to $403K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-03-13
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/snorkelai/jobs/5828338004
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/snorkel-ai-head-of-forward-deployed-engineering/

## 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)

Tags: DaaS FDE