Lavendo

Forward Deployed Engineer, AI Training Data (Redwood City, CA)

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3 months ago
Redwood City, CA, USASenior / Staff+

Base Salary

$230k - $300k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Own end-to-end onboarding, deployment, production rollout, optimization, and stabilization for strategic enterprise accounts.
  • Serve as the primary technical point of contact and drive adoption across complex on-premises and hybrid environments.
  • Design scalable and secure workflows across compute, storage, networking, distributed systems, AWS, GCP, Azure, and Kubernetes.
  • Translate ambiguous customer requirements into concrete technical architectures and implementation plans.
  • Build post-sales deployment processes and playbooks from the ground up.
  • Partner with Sales, Engineering, and Research and provide customer insights that influence the product roadmap.
  • Travel to customer sites as needed, approximately 15% of the time.

Requirements

  • 5–10 years of post-sales individual-contributor experience owning customer deployments in a Forward Deployed Engineer, Post-Sales Solutions Engineer/Architect, Implementation Engineer, Machine Learning Engineer, or similar customer-facing engineering role.
  • Hands-on machine learning and model training experience, including understanding of pre-training, mid-training, and post-training.
  • Experience deploying software into enterprise customer infrastructure and owning the full post-sales enterprise lifecycle.
  • Strong Python proficiency and AWS proficiency.
  • Experience building post-sales processes or playbooks from scratch.
  • Technical degree in computer science or equivalent.
  • Ability to translate ambiguous customer requirements into clear technical architecture.
  • Willingness to travel to customer sites approximately 15%.
  • Exposure to GCP, Azure, on-premises or hybrid Kubernetes, or broader machine learning tooling is preferred.

Benefits

  • $230,000–$300,000 base salary plus competitive equity.
  • 100% covered medical, vision, and dental health benefits.
  • 401(k) plan with a 4% company match.
  • Unlimited paid time off.
  • Annual $2,000 wellness stipend and $1,000 learning and development stipend.
  • Daily lunches and snacks in the office.
  • Relocation assistance for employees moving to the Bay Area.
  • Hybrid schedule with 4 days per week in the Redwood City, CA office.
  • Visa support including OPT and H-1B transfers.
  • Approximately 15% customer-site travel may be required.

Categories

Forward DeployedML EngineeringSolutions Engineering
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About Lavendo

1-10 employees

Lavendo is a San Francisco–based recruiting firm that helps startups and high‑growth companies hire sales, go‑to‑market, and select technical talent. It provides fee-based search services and recruiting programs focused on revenue roles. Founded in 2021 and privately held, Lavendo is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

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