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Forward Deployed Engineer, Video

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11 days ago
Remote, WorldwideMid Level

Responsibilities

  • Own customer engagements end to end, from feasibility and technical planning through implementation, delivery, validation, and post-delivery support.
  • Translate customer model-development goals into executable technical plans with clear acceptance criteria.
  • Build and operate systems that process, analyze, measure, quality-check, curate, and deliver large-scale video datasets.
  • Develop tooling to characterize unknown datasets and respond to high-volume and bespoke data requests.
  • Partner with product, platform engineering, Data Lab, commercial stakeholders, and the vertical GM to turn customer learnings into reusable platform capabilities.
  • Define video FDE playbooks, reusable tooling, quality standards, and a roadmap for increasing delivery capacity.
  • Manage multiple concurrent customer deals, partner datasets, customer requests, and architecture decisions.

Requirements

  • 3+ years of experience as an engineer, including meaningful exposure to customers or external technical stakeholders.
  • Direct experience working with media data, preferably video.
  • 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.
  • Comfort working with ambiguity, multiple concurrent priorities, time-sensitive customer work, and availability outside standard hours when deals are live.
  • Preferred: hands-on video processing at scale, including codecs, transcoding, ffmpeg, shot detection, frame sampling strategies, or perceptual quality measurement.
  • Preferred: startup or early-stage company experience, Python and SQL experience, search or semantic retrieval experience, or experience with vector embeddings and ML-assisted data curation.
  • Preferred: experience evaluating or deploying vision-language models and building evaluation harnesses.
  • Preferred: product engineering experience or a strong product mindset, and experience with AWS, Databricks, Dagster, or Vercel.

Tech Stack

AWSDatabricksPythonSQLVercel

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