Senior/Staff Forward Deployed Engineer - Data as a Service

• 5+ years of experience in data science, data engineering, ML engineering, solutions engineering, forward-deployed engineering, or other technical solution development roles.
• Strong practical experience with Python and SQL data tooling required.
• Familiarity with ML and LLM-based solutions, including applying ML techniques in production contexts and building validation, evaluation, or quality measurement workflows for ML/LLM-based systems.
• Experience translating ambiguous customer or stakeholder requirements into technical specifications, workflows, and delivered solutions.
• Experience integrating systems via APIs and building custom tooling or workflows for non-standard technical requirements.

Why Join Snorkel AI?

At Snorkel AI, we're building the future of data-centric AI. Our Expert Data-as-a-Service organization partners with world-class customers to solve some of the hardest data challenges — creating training and evaluation data that power the next generation of LLMs and AI systems. You'll work directly on projects that impact real production systems, while shaping how internal teams deliver faster, better, and more intelligently. This is a rare opportunity to own technical data workflows and be a founding member of the technical DaaS team.

• Build and deploy evaluators, design and implement quality measurement systems to validate project outputs and ensure deliverables meet client expectations
• Generate synthetic datasets by developing or adapting existing pipelines to accelerate client engagements and augment training data
• Package and deliver production-grade datasets with standardized formatting, comprehensive documentation, and quality assurance
• Configure and build custom applications and off-platform solutions for non-standard or specialized client requirements

• Define production specifications and workflows, securing technical alignment with client teams to enable seamless go-live transitions
• Provide ongoing technical support to Delivery Managers, addressing complex questions, resolving technical blockers, and supporting customer rebuttals
• Maintain specification consistency and alignment across customer and internal teams throughout the engagement lifecycle
• Identify and document workflow best practices and automation opportunities, collaborating with DaaS Engineering to continuously improve delivery capabilities

• Maintain solution leaderboards and execute custom model benchmarking on existing datasets to demonstrate technical capabilities
• Drive continuous improvement of technical assets, evaluation frameworks, and delivery processes to enhance speed, quality, and scalability

Joining Snorkel AI means becoming part of a company that has market proven solutions, robust funding, and is scaling rapidly—offering a unique combination of stability and the excitement of high growth. As a member of our team, you’ll have meaningful opportunities to shape priorities and initiatives, influence key strategic decisions, and directly impact our ongoing success. Whether you’re looking to deepen your technical expertise, explore leadership opportunities, or learn new skills across multiple functions, you’re fully supported in building your career in an environment designed for growth, learning, and shared success.

Compensation

The base salary range for this position is $180,000–$320,000, with an additional variable compensation opportunity. The exact mix of base salary and variable compensation will depend on the role level and work location. Final compensation will be determined based on job-related skills, experience, relevant education or training, interview performance, and other business considerations.

Most offers include equity and benefits.

Actual compensation will be determined based on factors including skills, qualifications, experience, and geographic location.

Actual compensation will be determined based on factors including skills, qualifications, experience, and geographic location.

Salary range(s) for this role

$180,000—$320,000 USD

Snorkel AI is the frontier AI data lab, helping teams build the data and environments behind high-performing frontier and agentic AI. We combine technology with research-driven AI data development to create datasets, benchmarks, evals, and custom solutions for real-world AI systems. Founded out of the Stanford AI Lab in 2019, Snorkel works with leading AI labs and enterprises to move from better data to better outcomes.

Excited to help us redefine how AI is built? Apply to be the newest Snorkeler!