Forward Deployed Engineering Manager
Core
Leads and grows Forward Deployed Engineers who design data pipelines, measurement strategies, and instructions to turn customer goals into training signals for AI models.
Role type
Senior IC Engineering Manager (Forward Deployed)
Builds
Data pipelines, measurement frameworks, and instruction sets for customer-specific AI training programs.
Domain
Frontier AI, Reinforcement Learning, Data Engineering
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
People leadership, technical scoping, pipeline design, quality instrumentation, instruction writing, team capacity management, onboarding program design, template and tooling creation.
Preferred skills
RLHF, reinforcement-learning environments, LLM-as-judge systems, scaling team processes.
Technologies
LLM-as-judge, Loom repository, data pipelines.
Responsibilities
Hire, coach, and manage performance of FDEs; define staffing cadence and match engineers to projects; set craft standards for scoping and pipeline design; protect FDE focus from day-to-day operations; own FDE onboarding and certification; build reusable templates and playbooks; partner with SPL Managers and GMs on delivery.
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
