# Forward Deployed Engineer, Post-Training at Together AI

- Company: Together AI
- What the company does: Build what's next on the AI Native Cloud. Full-stack AI platform for inference, fine-tuning, and GPU clusters — powered by cutting-edge research. Backed by General Catalyst, Kleiner Perkins and NEA.
- Company website: https://www.together.ai/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: San Francisco
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $270K to $300K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-10-23
- Apply by: 2026-12-07
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/togetherai/jobs/5274195007?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/together-ai-forward-deployed-engineer-post-training/

## About the role

As a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) focused on Post-Training, you will be a hands-on technical partner to our most strategic customers: AI teams using fine-tuning and reinforcement learning to build differentiated models on open-source foundations. FDE does not replace our Solutions Architects. You will work alongside them as the deep-domain specialist in post-training, guiding customers through data strategy, algorithm selection, experiment design, and evaluation, and sizing the compute behind it. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- Experience: 5+ years in a technical role in ML engineering, Applied AI, Forward Deployed Engineering, or Solutions Architect, with recent hands-on experience post-training LLMs
- Post-Training Depth: Expert-level, hands-on experience with fine-tuning and/or RL for LLMs, including SFT, LoRA, DPO, and RL (GRPO, PPO, etc)
- Experimental Rigor: Strong track record designing experiments, running ablations, and building evaluations that separate real improvement from noise
- Data Intuition: Proven ability to build and iterate on training datasets
- Model Landscape Awareness: Broad knowledge of state-of-the-art open-source models and strong judgment on which base model to post-train for a given customer requirements
- Coding Proficiency: Strong Python skills, comfortable working in production environments

Tags: Customer Success

Source: 1752vc Careers, https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/together-ai-forward-deployed-engineer-post-training/