# Senior/Staff FDE - Synthetic Data Generation 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: Senior
- Location: New York City, NY (Hybrid); San Francisco, CA (Hybrid)
- Work setup: Hybrid
- Pay: $180K to $320K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-08-27
- Apply by: 2026-10-11
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/snorkelai/jobs/6167063004
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/snorkel-ai-senior-staff-fde-synthetic-data-generation/

## About the role

Snorkel AI is hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer focused on Synthetic Data Generation to partner with leading AI labs and enterprises on their most critical AI initiatives.

## What they're looking for

- 5+ years of experience in machine learning engineering, data science, applied AI, forward deployed engineering, or a similar technical role
- Strong Python skills and experience building reliable production data or ML systems, including containerizing with Docker and deploying on cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, GCP, or Azure)
- Hands-on experience with LLMs—building model-based applications and data workflows with the modern GenAI/LLM stack, and integrating systems, models, and data sources through APIs
- Strong understanding of ML experimentation and evaluation, including defining metrics and using empirical results to guide technical decisions
- Experience building synthetic data, data augmentation, or model-generated training and evaluation datasets
- Experience with LLM evaluation techniques, including LLM-as-a-judge, model-based evaluation, rubric-based evaluation, or custom evaluators

Tags: DaaS FDE