Forward Deployed Engineer

David Joseph & Company
San Francisco, CA, United States
about 2 months ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Starter
Experience required
1 year minimum
Compensation
$150,000.0 - $250,000.0
Working hours
Regular working hours
Job source

Tech stack

Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) Computer Vision Audio Signal Processing Text Processing Python (Programming Language) Metadata Tensorflow Data Processing Pytorch Free and Open-Source Software Machine Learning Operations Data Pipelines

Job description

You’ll own end-to-end dataset projects for customers, from untangling ambiguous requirements through shipping production systems that find, generate, filter, transform, evaluate, and package high-quality datasets. This is a high-agency role working directly with customers and internal teams, combining research prototypes with reliable production pipelines. You’ll ship fast, move between technical domains within each project, and own customer outcomes directly.

What You’ll Own

  • Work directly with customers to translate ambiguous dataset needs into concrete technical systems and delivery timelines
  • Build custom algorithms, models, and large-scale data pipelines spanning computer vision, audio processing, text processing, and metadata analysis
  • Move between research prototypes and production systems, using models and APIs creatively to solve customer problems
  • Break down customer-level goals into the models, heuristics, infrastructure, and QA steps needed to deliver
  • Optimize performance through pre/post-processing, parallelism, inference optimization, fine-tuning, and evaluation loops

Requirements

Do you have experience in Requirements design?, * Strong Python developer with hands-on experience building custom algorithms, model workflows, or large-scale data pipelines

  • Comfortable working directly with customers or external teams to translate ambiguous needs into technical systems
  • Deep intuition for dataset quality, filtering, labeling, evaluation, and edge cases
  • Able to move quickly between research prototypes and reliable production systems without creating brittle code
  • 1 to 3 years of experience shipping technical work in a startup or high-velocity environment.

Nice-to-Have

  • Experience building custom algorithms or ML workflows for production video, audio, or multimodal data
  • Depth in computer vision, audio, or video domains
  • Hands-on work with large-scale video, audio, or multimodal data processing at scale
  • Track record shipping data pipelines or algorithms in production
  • Background with PyTorch or similar ML frameworks in production
  • Experience working directly with customers or external stakeholders
  • Prior experience in a startup or other high-velocity environment, ideally as an early hire
  • Active contributor to open source projects.

Benefits & conditions

Pulled from the full job description

  • 401(k)
  • Health insurance
  • Visa sponsorship

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