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Forward Deployed Engineer, Audio

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11 days ago
Remote, WorldwideMid Level

Responsibilities

  • Develop and own solutions that transform raw audio and sparse or missing metadata into organized, ready-to-sell datasets.
  • Build prototypes and evolve them into reliable production systems that others can operate.
  • Characterize large and unfamiliar audio datasets and assess their suitability for customer use cases.
  • Own customer engagements from feasibility through implementation, delivery, post-delivery support, and iteration.
  • Translate customer model-development goals into technical plans with clear acceptance criteria.
  • Partner with the audio GM, product and engineering teams, Data Lab, and commercial stakeholders.
  • Identify recurring customer needs and help design and build reusable cross-vertical platform capabilities.
  • Create audio-vertical technical playbooks, quality standards, reusable tooling, and platform investment roadmaps.
  • Manage multiple concurrent deals and customer priorities, including availability outside standard hours when deals are live.

Requirements

  • 3+ years of experience as an engineer, including meaningful exposure to customers or external technical stakeholders.
  • Experience working directly with media data; direct audio-data experience is a plus.
  • Experience building and operating systems that process, analyze, or deliver data at scale.
  • Ability to translate ambiguous requirements, communicate trade-offs, and build trust with technical stakeholders.
  • Demonstrated end-to-end ownership from problem definition through implementation, validation, and support.
  • Tolerance for ambiguity, bias to action, and judgment about when to investigate further or push back.
  • Comfort working in a fast-moving environment with multiple concurrent priorities and time-sensitive customer work.
  • Early-stage company, founding or early engineering, or startup-like broad-ownership experience is preferred.
  • Hands-on Python experience is preferred.
  • Product engineering experience or a strong product mindset developed in close partnership with users is preferred.
  • Experience with search, vector embeddings, semantic retrieval, or ML-assisted data curation is preferred.
  • Experience with AWS, Dagster, Databricks, or Vercel is preferred.
  • Audio processing, speech or music ML, transcription, diarization, annotation, quality measurement, privacy, or redaction experience is preferred.

Tech Stack

AWSDatabricksPythonVercel

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