Snorkel AI
Senior/Staff FDE - Synthetic Data Generation
$180K–$320K
New York City, NY (Hybrid) +3 · Staff · Full-time · Posted Aug 27, 2026
- Location
- New York City, NY (Hybrid)
San Francisco, CA (Hybrid)
New York, New York, United States
San Francisco - Experience
- 5+ years; applicable fields include machine learning engineering, data science, applied AI, forward deployed engineering, or a similar technical role.
About the job
Lead customer-facing engineering engagements that use synthetic data to improve AI model training, evaluation, and performance, from solution design through production delivery.
What you'll do
- Build and evaluate scalable synthetic-data generation pipelines, evaluators, and quality frameworks; measure effects on downstream model performance.
- Lead customer technical workstreams from discovery and design through implementation and delivery, communicating results and resolving blockers.
- Turn successful engagement solutions into reusable pipelines, tools, standards, and product improvements; guide other engineers.
What they ask for
- 5+ years in machine learning engineering, data science, applied AI, forward deployed engineering, or a similar technical role.
- Strong Python skills; production data or ML systems experience, including Docker and cloud deployment (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
- Hands-on LLM application and data-workflow experience, including API integration; strong ML experimentation and evaluation skills.
- Experience with synthetic data or data augmentation, LLM evaluation, customer-facing delivery of ambiguous problems, and technical leadership.
Nice to have
- Datasets for fine-tuning, preference optimization, or benchmarking, including human-in-the-loop workflows; agentic environments and tasks.
- Reinforcement learning for LLMs, including reward and verifier design and RLVR; experience in fast-paced customer-facing environments.
Pay
$180,000–$320,000 USD base salary
Tools
Python, Docker, AWS, GCP, Azure, LLMs, APIs
AI focus
Develop synthetic data generation and evaluation workflows—including LLM- and ML-assisted dataset creation—to improve model training, evaluation, and performance.
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