Snorkel AI

Forward Deployed Engineer - Data as a Service

Snorkel AI$150K — $320K *
Technical Services
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 3+ years of experience in data science, data engineering, or related fields.
  • Strong practical experience with Python and SQL data tooling.
  • Familiarity with ML and LLM (Large Language Models) solutions in production environments.
  • Proficient in translating vague customer requirements into clear technical specifications.
  • Experience with API integrations and custom tooling for unique client needs.

Responsibilities

  • Build and deploy evaluators and quality measurement systems to ensure project deliverables meet expectations.
  • Generate synthetic datasets to enhance client engagements and training data.
  • Package production-grade datasets with comprehensive documentation and quality assurance.
  • Define production specifications and workflows, aligning with client teams for smooth transitions.
  • Provide technical support to Delivery Managers, resolving complex questions and blockers.
  • Maintain consistency across customer and internal specification during engagement.
  • Identify best practices and automation opportunities to enhance delivery capabilities.

Benefits

  • Equity in the form of employee stock options.
  • Opportunities for career growth and skill development.
  • Work directly on impactful, high-stakes projects.
  • Unique combination of stability due to market proven solutions and high growth potential.
Full Job Description
About the Role - Multiple Levels

This is an engineering delivery role where you'll translate ambiguous customer needs into production-grade data, evaluation, and ML-assisted workflows. This is a high-impact role focused on end-to-end ownership of the AI data pipeline lifecycle, including developing and deploying ML-based workflows and building the technical foundations that make our human-in-the-loop (HITL) data generation and review faster, more reliable, and more effective.

You'll work at the critical intersection of data science, data engineering, AI engineering and operations, partnering closely with our DaaS Delivery Operations team and cross-functional stakeholders. You'll develop technical specifications, design evaluation workflows, implement quality standards, measurement frameworks, and ML-assisted applications which improve our data pipelines and unblock projects through technical innovation.

This role is ideal for someone who is comfortable working throughout the delivery lifecycle, rolling up their sleeves to solve complex multi-faceted problems, thrives as a technical communicator and works well as a key member of a team.
Main Responsibilities
Project Execution & Delivery
  • Build and deploy evaluators, design and implement quality measurement systems to validate project outputs and ensure deliverables meet client expectations
  • Generate synthetic datasets by developing or adapting existing pipelines to accelerate client engagements and augment training data
  • Package and deliver production-grade datasets with standardized formatting, comprehensive documentation, and quality assurance
  • Configure and build custom applications and off-platform solutions for non-standard or specialized client requirements
Production & Technical Partnership
  • Define production specifications and workflows, securing technical alignment with client teams to enable seamless go-live transitions
  • Provide ongoing technical support to Delivery Managers, addressing complex questions, resolving technical blockers, and supporting customer rebuttals
  • Maintain specification consistency and alignment across customer and internal teams throughout the engagement lifecycle
  • Identify and document workflow best practices and automation opportunities, collaborating with DaaS Engineering to continuously improve delivery capabilities
Technical Leadership & Innovation
  • Maintain solution leaderboards and execute custom model benchmarking on existing datasets to demonstrate technical capabilities
  • Drive continuous improvement of technical assets, evaluation frameworks, and delivery processes to enhance speed, quality, and scalability
What We're Looking For
  • 3+ years of experience in data science, data engineering, ML engineering, solutions engineering, forward-deployed engineering, or other technical solution development roles.
  • Strong practical experience with Python and SQL data tooling required.
  • Familiarity with ML and LLM-based solutions, including applying ML techniques in production contexts and building validation, evaluation, or quality measurement workflows for ML/LLM-based systems.
  • Experience translating ambiguous customer or stakeholder requirements into technical specifications, workflows, and delivered solutions.
  • Experience integrating systems via APIs and building custom tooling or workflows for non-standard technical requirements.
Why Join Snorkel AI?

At Snorkel AI, we're building the future of data-centric AI. Our Expert Data-as-a-Service organization partners with world-class customers to solve some of the hardest data challenges - creating training and evaluation data that power the next generation of LLMs and AI systems. You'll work directly on projects that impact real production systems, while shaping how internal teams deliver faster, better, and more intelligently. This is a rare opportunity to own technical data workflows and be a founding member of the technical DaaS team.

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Compensation

The base salary range for this position is $150,000 - $320,000. This range reflects multiple factors, including role level and work location. The final offer within this range will be determined based on job-related skills, experience, relevant education or training, interview performance, and other business considerations.

All offers also include equity in the form of employee stock options, as well as benefits.

Actual compensation will be determined based on factors including skills, qualifications, experience, and geographic location.

Salary range(s) for this role

$150,000-$320,000 USD

Be Your Best at Snorkel

Joining Snorkel AI means becoming part of a company that has market proven solutions, robust funding, and is scaling rapidly-offering a unique combination of stability and the excitement of high growth. As a member of our team, you'll have meaningful opportunities to shape priorities and initiatives, influence key strategic decisions, and directly impact our ongoing success. Whether you're looking to deepen your technical expertise, explore leadership opportunities, or learn new skills across multiple functions, you're fully supported in building your career in an environment designed for growth, learning, and shared success.

About Snorkel AI

Snorkel AI is an artificial intelligence company that provides a platform for building and managing machine learning models. The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. Snorkel AI's platform is designed to make it easier for developers and data scientists to create and manage machine learning models, using a technique called programmatic labeling. The company's platform is used by a number of large enterprises, including Intel, Google, and Microsoft. Snorkel AI has raised over $50 million in funding to date.
Learn more about Snorkel AI
Size
50 employees
Industry
Founded
2019

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