Forward Deployed Engineer, Production
Core
Own the loop between customer models, research teams, and data production to ensure data measurably improves customer AI models.
Role type
Senior IC machine-learning engineer (audio data production)
Builds
Real-time pipelines, eval harnesses, and analysis tools for audio data production
Domain
AI / Machine Learning / Audio Data Research
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
AI-native coding, experimental design, ablation study execution, data quality operationalization, ML lifecycle management, tooling development
Preferred skills
Audio/speech model experience, ML research workflows, enterprise customer interaction
Technologies
Generative audio models, real-time data pipelines, evaluation harnesses
Responsibilities
Run daily experiment loops to translate customer questions into fast, rigorous experiments; Design ablations and benchmarks to isolate drivers of model behavior; Develop operational intuition for data quality by tracing model outcomes to recording conditions and QA steps; Build tooling (eval harnesses, pipelines, analysis tools) to accelerate experimentation; Close the loop by ensuring experimental findings change data production strategies; Shape experimentation practices and engineering culture
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
