What are the responsibilities and job description for the Forward Deployed Engineer position at Snorkel AI?
We're on a mission to democratize AI by building the definitive AI data development platform. The AI landscape has gone through incredible change between 2016, when Snorkel started as a research project in the Stanford AI Lab, to the generative AI breakthroughs of today. But one thing has remained constant : the data you use to build AI is the key to achieving differentiation, high performance, and production-ready systems. We work with some of the world's largest organizations to empower scientists, engineers, financial experts, product creators, journalists, and more to build custom AI with their data faster than ever before. Excited to help us redefine how AI is built? Apply to be the newest Snorkeler!
We are looking for the founding members of our Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) team. The FDE team will be responsible for redefining how the world's largest organizations meet large data annotation needs for groundbreaking models. Building on Snorkel AI's core platform centered around programmatic data development, FDEs will develop project-specific automations and optimizations to accelerate data generation, labeling, quality checks and more. They will work closely with executive leadership and cross-functional teams such as research and operations to pioneer innovative workflows to power best-in-class ML models.
If you're excited about defining the future of data-centric AI and solving complex ML challenges in a fast-paced environment, we'd love to have you on board!
Location : Redwood City or San Francisco OR REMOTE
Main Responsibilities
For this role, there would be a lot of interaction with the Ops team to understand their immediate needs and proposing / implementing innovative solutions to get them what they need built on top of our core platform. This includes rapid prototyping using LLMs, scripting, dashboarding, and data munging.
Required Qualifications
- Prototype and build automation scripts for large-scale annotation workflows
- Create interactive dashboards in support of cross-functional partners in the operations and project management teams
- Design and optimize relational database schemas and complex queries to support high-performance data workflows.
- Work with OpenAI APIs and other LLM-related tools to develop AI / ML-powered features.
- Utilize Pandas, NumPy and FastAPI for efficient data manipulation, analysis, and preprocessing.
Preferred Qualifications
The salary range is $140,000.00 - $275,000.00.
Be Your Best At Snorkel
Snorkel AI is on a mission to make machine learning practical for everyone, and it starts with building a team that welcomes, represents and gives opportunity to all. We work at the frontier of AI and software engineering, and believe that underrepresented communities need to play a part in shaping the future of these fields. At Snorkel AI, we actively work to create an environment that values end-to-end ownership, diverse forms of impact, and opportunities for personal growth.
Snorkelers are supported by an amazing team and an amazing set of benefits. For Full-time employees, we offer comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans for Snorkelers and their families, plus a yearly wellness stipend. Our 401k program lets Snorkelers plan for their future and our parental leave program lets new parents take up to 20 weeks of paid time off. Learn more about these benefits and more - like our workstation setup allowance - on our Careers page.
Snorkel AI is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and is committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. Snorkel AI embraces diversity and provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment. Snorkel AI prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type on the basis of race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, performance, merit, and business need.
We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.
Salary : $140,000 - $275,000
