Snorkel AI
Manager, Forward Deployed Engineering
$200K–$320K
New York City, NY (Hybrid) +3 · Manager · Full-time · Posted Mar 19, 2026
- Location
- New York City, NY (Hybrid)
San Francisco, CA (Hybrid)
New York, New York, United States
San Francisco - Experience
- 6+ years in specified engineering or applied AI roles; 2+ years leading or managing engineers.
About the job
Builds and leads Snorkel AI’s Forward Deployed Engineering function, developing scalable systems and workflows for high-quality AI dataset production.
What you'll do
- Define the team’s operating model, technical roadmap, and execution standards; hire and develop engineers.
- Design and evolve AI data pipelines, evaluation systems, and quality frameworks.
- Develop ML-assisted and human-in-the-loop workflows, tooling, and delivery practices in partnership with Delivery, Engineering, and Research.
What they ask for
- 6+ years in AI/ML/GenAI engineering, forward deployed engineering, solution engineering, or applied AI roles, with hands-on technical depth.
- 2+ years leading or managing engineers in a hands-on, player-coach capacity.
- Experience building and operating production data pipelines and ML/LLM-based workflows; proficiency in Python, SQL, and modern data tooling; API integration experience; wrote code in the last 2 years.
- Experience designing evaluation frameworks, quality measurement systems, or benchmarking approaches for ML systems.
Nice to have
- Start-up or growth-stage experience; customer-facing, consulting, or services experience.
- Experience with HITL systems, data annotation, data-centric AI, synthetic data, model-assisted labeling, or internal delivery and operations tooling.
Pay
$200,000 – $320,000 USD base salary
Tools
Python, SQL
AI focus
Develops ML-assisted and human-in-the-loop workflows and evaluation systems to produce, measure, and validate AI datasets and support AI workloads.
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