Forward Deployed Engineer, AI Training Data (San Mateo, CA)

The role

You will own end-to-end onboarding, deployment, and production rollout of a data curation platform for strategic enterprise accounts. You will serve as the primary technical contact and design scalable workflows across various cloud and on-prem environments.

What you will do

• Own end-to-end onboarding, deployment, and production rollout of the platform for strategic enterprise accounts
• Serve as the primary technical point of contact for accounts
• Design scalable, secure workflows spanning compute, storage, networking, and distributed systems
• Translate ambiguous, real-world customer requirements into concrete technical architecture
• Build the processes and playbooks for post-sales deployment from 0 to 1
• Partner cross-functionally with Sales, Engineering, and Research
• Travel to customer sites as needed to support critical deployments

Required qualifications

• 5–10 years of experience in a post-sales individual-contributor capacity
• Hands-on machine learning and model training experience
• Real experience deploying software into enterprise customer infrastructure
• Strong Python proficiency
• AWS proficiency
• A track record of owning the full post-sales enterprise lifecycle
• Experience building post-sales processes or playbooks from scratch
• A technical degree (CS or equivalent)
• Demonstrated ability to translate messy, ambiguous customer requirements into clean, concrete architecture
• Willingness to travel to customer sites as needed (roughly 15%)

Nice to have

• Startup or high-ambiguity experience
• Exposure to multi-cloud environments (GCP, Azure)
• On-prem or hybrid Kubernetes
• Broader ML tooling

Benefits

• 100% covered health benefits (medical, vision, and dental)
• 401(k) plan with a 4% company match
• Unlimited PTO
• Annual $2,000 wellness stipend
• Annual $1,000 learning and development stipend
• Daily lunches and snacks provided in the office
• Relocation assistance for employees moving to the Bay Area

Before you apply

• Open to visa transfers, including OPT and H-1B transfers

About the company

Lavendo partners with startups and high-growth companies to help them hire top-tier sales, GTM, and technical talent. The client is a fast-growing AI infrastructure company that has built a state-of-the-art data curation platform.