Member of Technical Staff, Forward Deployed
San Francisco$150k - $350kFull-timePosted 5mo ago
About the role
Forward Deployed Engineer role at Sieve focused on turning ambiguous customer needs into production systems to find, generate, filter, transform, evaluate, and package high-quality video datasets at scale. Primarily customer-facing with end-to-end ownership from requirements to deployment.
Responsibilities
- Work directly with customers or external teams to translate ambiguous needs into concrete technical systems
- Collaborate with customers and internal teams to understand data requirements
- Turn requirements into production systems that can find, generate, filter, transform, evaluate, and package high-quality video datasets at scale
- Write clean, maintainable code and move quickly without creating brittle systems
- Deliver end-to-end outcomes across data pipelines, not just model training or research code
Qualifications
- Strong Python development experience
- Hands-on experience in PyTorch or similar ML frameworks
- Experience building custom algorithms, model workflows, or large-scale data pipelines
- Strong intuition for dataset quality, filtering, labeling, evaluation, and edge cases
- Ability to break customer goals down into models, heuristics, infrastructure, and QA steps
- Deep passion for video, media technologies, and frontier AI applications
- Motivation to deliver end-to-end outcomes
Skills
Required:PythonPyTorch or similar ML frameworksData pipelinesDataset quality, filtering, labeling, evaluationCustomer collaborationVideo/media technologiesEnd-to-end delivery
Benefits
- 401k + Full Health Insurance
- Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner covered and your choice of snacks
- Ubers covered home
Last updated Jul 15, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Sieve
Video datasets for frontier AI
High quality video data for AI applications.
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