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Senior/Staff FDE - CUA

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

Snorkel AI is hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer focused on Computer Use Agents to partner with leading AI labs and enterprises on their most critical agentic-AI initiatives.

What they're looking for

  • 5+ years of experience in machine learning engineering, software engineering, applied AI, forward deployed engineering, solutions engineering, or a similar technical role
  • Strong Python skills and experience building reliable production software, data, or ML systems
  • Hands-on experience building, evaluating, or deploying LLM-based or agentic systems, including computer-use agents (CUA)
  • Strong understanding of experimentation and evaluation, including LLM-as-a-judge / model-based evaluation, defining metrics, and using empirical results to guide technical decisions
  • Experience designing task environments, datasets, and verifiers for agents, including reward & verifier design (RL with verifiable rewards)
  • Experience building or working with APIs, automation, web applications, browser-based systems, desktop applications, or developer tools
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!

Snorkel AI is hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer focused on Computer Use Agents to partner with leading AI labs and enterprises on their most critical agentic-AI initiatives.

In this role, you will lead the technical execution of complex customer engagements involving agents that operate computers, browsers, and software environments to complete realistic, multi-step tasks. You will...

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