Labelbox

Labelbox

Forward Deployed Engineering Manager

San Francisco Bay Area

Sponsorship not specified$190k-$250kDetected 36 days ago
Data EngineeringLLMsOnboardingCadenceControlsResearchLeadership

About the role

  • This role sits at the intersection of people leadership, technical depth, and delivery quality.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the FDE team end-to-end: hire, coach, manage performance, and develop careers across the FDE track and toward FDR or GM.
  • Set and uphold the craft bar: sharp task scoping, sound pipeline and measurement design (including the LLM-as-judge and quality instrumentation that surface problems early), clear instruction writing, and compelling customer-facing presentation of findings.
  • Protect FDE focus: keep day-to-day project operations with the SPLs and Pod Leads, and keep FDEs on scoping, technical depth, and what the customer needs from the data.
  • Own FDE onboarding and the bar that certifies a new FDE as ready to be staffed: define which projects are eligible to onboard on, maintain the instruction and Loom repository, and run the onboarding program - including the core exercise (read a past project's instructions, explain them back, and write a new version in the repo).
  • Drive reuse and leverage: build the templates, tooling, and playbooks that stop FDEs rebuilding pipelines and instructions from scratch each project, so the team's capacity compounds as we scale.
  • Ensure FDEs work hand-in-glove with FDRs on research, efficacy, and customer needs, and partner with whoever owns quality sign-off so quality is caught in flight, not at delivery.
  • Partner with the SPL Manager, Deployment Leads, and GMs on staffing, delivery, and alignment with customer objectives.
  • Maintain a clear, live view of team capacity, utilization, and bench across active projects.
  • Innovation at Speed: We celebrate those who take ownership, move fast, and deliver impact.
  • We empower people to drive results through clear ownership and metrics.

Requirements

  • Comfort operating in ambiguous, fast-scaling environments where the processes are still being built.

Nice to have

  • Experience working with forward-deployed engineers, solutions engineers, or implementation teams.
  • Experience scaling a team and its operating processes in a high-growth environment.
  • What Success Looks Like
  • Labelbox strives to ensure pay parity across the organization and discuss compensation transparently.
  • Life at Labelbox

Skills

  • Advanced annotation tools, workflow automation, and quality control systems that enable teams to produce high-quality training data at scale

Compensation

  • The expected annual base salary range for United States-based candidates is below.
  • Annual base salary range
  • $190,000 - $250,000 USD

Benefits

  • Continuous Growth: Every role requires continuous learning and evolution.
  • This range is not inclusive of any potential equity packages or additional benefits.

Company info

  • Shape the Future of AI
  • At Labelbox, we're building the critical infrastructure that powers breakthrough AI models at leading research labs and enterprises.
  • Since 2018, we've been pioneering data-centric approaches that are fundamental to AI development, and our work becomes even more essential as AI capabilities expand exponentially.
  • About Labelbox
  • We're the only company offering three integrated solutions for frontier
  • The FDE Manager owns the people who do that work - their craft, their growth, and how they're deployed across domains and customers - and is accountable for the technical quality and consistency of what the team produces.
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