Forward Deployed Researcher - Data as a Service

The role

Forward Deployed Researchers partner with frontier AI labs to solve challenging data problems. You will design complex data and environments to improve frontier model performance and serve as a thought partner to customer research teams.

What you will do

• Own a technical domain end to end
• Partner with frontier AI research labs to design datasets and environments
• Lead technical conversations with customer researchers
• Probe model behavior through systematic evaluation
• Benchmark frontier models against datasets and build evaluation harnesses
• Design evaluation frameworks, calibration processes, and quality rubrics
• Develop technical specifications for data projects
• Hold the demand shape for your domain
• Develop a point of view on domain direction and partner with Research
• Serve as thought partner to customer research teams throughout the sales cycle

Required qualifications

• B.S. in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or related field
• 4+ years of experience in AI/ML research or technical roles

Nice to have

• Advanced degree
• Strong expertise in frontier AI concepts including LLMs, training data pipelines, evaluation methodologies, post-training techniques (RLHF, DPO, RLAIF), and domain areas such as coding agents, reasoni
• Experience in applied ML research, data science, or research-intensive technical roles
• Customer-facing or collaborative research experience, or demonstrated aptitude for client engagement
• Proficiency in Python, familiarity with ML frameworks and LLM APIs, and comfort running evaluations in containerized environments
• Excellent communication skills, ability to deliver technical presentations and explain complex concepts to diverse audiences
• Familiarity with data curation workflows, synthetic data generation, LLM-as-a-Judge, or evaluation framework design
• Willingness to make and state a defensible assumption when a request arrives underspecified
• Ability to work in a fast-moving environment, comfortable with ambiguity and rapid iteration

Benefits

• Health coverage
• Dental coverage
• Equity grants

About the company

Snorkel AI is the frontier AI data lab, helping teams build the data and environments behind high-performing frontier and agentic AI. Founded out of the Stanford AI Lab in 2019, Snorkel works with leading AI labs and enterprises.