Drimva

Chalk

Forward Deployed Engineer

$170K–$280K

NY +1 · On-site · Full-time · Posted Oct 17, 2022

Location
NY
SF
Experience
2+ years of professional backend software engineering experience.
Education
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent.

About the job

Embeds with customer data teams to integrate Chalk into their infrastructure, build customer-specific AI and ML systems, and develop new platform capabilities.

What you'll do

  • Write code across Chalk’s codebase to implement and integrate its technology for customers and prospects.
  • Discover customer needs and design, implement, and ship features; serve as a technical contact before and after sales.
  • Work with Engineering and Sales, recommend products as customer needs evolve, and help interview and grow the Engineering team.

What they ask for

  • Professional backend software engineering experience.
  • Proficiency in Python and SQL.
  • Ability to collaborate with technical and non-technical teams.
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent.

Nice to have

  • Experience working closely with sales teams and customers.
  • Experience with ML/data products or services, ML Ops/infrastructure, or as a forward-deployed engineer at a high-growth ML startup.

Pay

$170K – $280K USD base salary; total pay not specified.

Tools

Python, SQL

AI focus

Build and integrate efficient ML and AI systems for customer use cases; prove out new capabilities and build them into the platform.

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