Director, Forward Deployed Researcher - Data as a Service

What you'll do

• Recruit, coach, and develop the team; set technical quality standards for specifications and customer deliverables.
• Plan SE capacity and account coverage, and partner with AE leadership on deal strategy and pipeline forecasting.
• Lead technical scoping and solution design for strategic accounts; establish team processes and handle complex customer escalations.

What they ask for

• 8+ years of experience in applied ML, AI solutions engineering, technical presales, or research-intensive customer-facing roles.
• 5+ years managing or leading technical individual contributors.
• Strong expertise in frontier AI concepts, including LLMs, training data pipelines, evaluation methodologies, and post-training techniques.
• Track record of hiring and developing technical talent; experience operating against revenue or pipeline goals in a GTM organization.

Nice to have

• Experience in a presales or solutions engineering organization.
• Experience with coding agents, reasoning, multimodal models, or RL environments.

Pay

$228,800–$403,200 USD base salary; $228,000–$403,200 USD (salary range; compensation type not specified)

Tools

LLMs, RLHF, DPO, RLAIF

AI focus

Partners with frontier AI labs on training data, RL environments, evaluation frameworks, and post-training techniques.