Encord
Forward Deployed Engineer
New York
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 65 days ago
PythonMachine LearningProduct ManagementOnboardingCommunication
About the role
- We're looking for an exceptional Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) to join our product engineering team.
- As an early member of the Forward Deployed team, you'll have an outsized impact on shaping a critical function for Encord and our customers, in a role that combines hands-on engineering with direct client ownership.
- As an end-to-end owner of the deployment process, you will work across a variety of problems: technical engineering, operational excellence, and strategic product work.
Responsibilities
- Own system design decisions for customer deployments, balancing correctness, scalability, and speed
- Build data integrations and technical solutions that support customer onboarding, adoption, and scale at pace
- Collaborate with product and engineering to feed customer insights back into the roadmap
- A strong software engineer with excellent system design instincts and a track record of shipping high-quality code, frequently and reliably
- An excellent problem-solver who can take an ambiguous customer situation, break it down, and design a technical solution from scratch
- A great communicator who is motivated by building customer relationships and solving customer problems
- Experience building or working with data integrations and APIs
Requirements
- Operate with a high degree of autonomy: identify the right problem to solve, decide how to solve it, and see it through with minimal oversight
Compensation
- Competitive salary, commission, and meaningful equity in a high-growth startup
Benefits
- Entrepreneurial and autonomous mind, energized by ambiguity and competing technical priorities, and able to manage client relationships and technical delivery without close supervision
- Competitive salary, commission, and meaningful equity in a high-growth startup
Company info
- Encord is the universal data layer for AI that helps 300+ AI teams train and run models on the right data. Our platform indexes, curates, annotates, and evaluates data across the full AI lifecycle, from development through production. Trusted by Woven by Toyota, AXA, UiPath, Zipline, and more.
- We're an ambitious team of 100+ working at the frontier of AI and have raised $60M in Series C funding from Wellington Management, CRV, Next47 and Y Combinator.
- The role
- We're looking for an exceptional Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) to join our product engineering team. This is an engineering-first role: FDEs are the technical owners who take the Encord platform into our most strategic and advanced customer environments, working directly with clients' engineering teams to identify problems and design, build, and ship the solutions that solve them.
- Encord is the universal data layer for AI that helps 300+ AI teams train and run models on the right data.
- Our platform indexes, curates, annotates, and evaluates data across the full AI lifecycle, from development through production.
- Trusted by Woven by Toyota, AXA, UiPath, Zipline, and more.
- Flexible PTO to fully recharge
- 18 paid vacation days in the U.S. plus federal holidays
- Annual learning & development budget
- Comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage
- Frequent travel opportunities across the U.S., London, and Europe
- Bi-annual company offsites, twice-weekly team lunches, and monthly socials
This listing is sourced directly from Encord's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.