Forward Deployed Engineering Manager
Core
Lead and grow the Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) team that scopes tasks, designs data pipelines, and defines instructions for training frontier AI models.
Role type
Senior IC Engineering Manager (Forward Deployed)
Builds
High-quality training data pipelines and instructions for AI model development
Domain
Artificial Intelligence / Frontier Data Labeling
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
People leadership, technical fluency in frontier-data work and RL environments, judgment on data utility, team development, project scoping, pipeline design, quality instrumentation
Preferred skills
RLHF experience, LLM-as-judge systems, onboarding program design, scaling team processes
Technologies
LLM-as-judge, quality instrumentation tools
Responsibilities
Hire, coach, and manage the FDE team; own FDE staffing and deployment; set craft bars for scoping and pipeline design; manage FDE onboarding and certification; build templates and playbooks for reuse; partner with SPL Managers and GMs on delivery; handle escalations on pipeline or customer risks
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC