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Forward Deployed Machine Learning Engineer

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1 month ago
Remote, WorldwideMid Level

Responsibilities

  • Partner with the GM and early customers to define strong evaluations across domains.
  • Work with researchers to design and build benchmarks and establish processing standards for different modalities.
  • Build backend infrastructure including data pipelines, execution environments, storage, and orchestration.
  • Create sandboxed environments for agentic evaluations involving tools, code execution, and multi-step tasks.
  • Identify evaluation patterns, infrastructure gaps, and product opportunities from live customer engagements.
  • Partner with DataLab on domain-specific data and research questions.
  • Own the engineering portion of customer engagements end to end.

Requirements

  • At least 4 years of engineering experience.
  • Hands-on experience evaluating machine learning models.
  • Previous ownership of backend and infrastructure.
  • Ability to work effectively in high-ambiguity, urgent, fast-moving environments.
  • Strong written communication skills.
  • Preferred: experience building benchmarks, evaluations, or human data pipelines for LLMs.
  • Preferred: experience at a frontier lab, evaluation-focused team, or research organization.
  • Preferred: founding or early-engineer experience at a fast-moving startup.
  • Preferred: familiarity with agentic systems, reinforcement-learning environments, code-execution sandboxes, and TEE/TREs.

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