Senior/Staff FDE - Synthetic Data Generation
Snorkel AI· 310 - DaaS FDE
Hybrid (New York City, NY and San Francisco, CA)$180k - $320kFull-timePosted 1mo ago
About the role
Forward Deployed Engineer focused on Synthetic Data Generation at Snorkel AI, leading technical execution of complex customer engagements to improve model training, evaluation, and performance through scalable synthetic data generation and evaluation pipelines.
Responsibilities
- Design and build scalable synthetic data generation, transformation, filtering, and evaluation pipelines for complex AI use cases
- Translate model objectives, failure modes, and data gaps into synthetic data strategies, experiments, and technical specifications
- Develop LLM- and ML-assisted workflows to generate high-quality training and evaluation datasets across targeted behaviors, domains, and edge cases
- Build automated evaluators, quality checks, and measurement frameworks to assess correctness, relevance, diversity, coverage, and adherence to customer requirements
- Design and run experiments to measure the impact of synthetic data on downstream model performance and iteratively improve generation approaches
- Package and deliver production-grade datasets with standardized formats, quality assurance, and clear documentation
- Lead technical workstreams from initial solution design through production delivery, navigating ambiguity and making sound technical decisions
- Build, refine, and iterate on solutions that address customer needs, incorporating feedback to ensure tangible value
- Rapidly prototype and productionize solutions across models, data pipelines, APIs, and custom applications
- Communicate technical tradeoffs, experimental results, and recommendations clearly to technical and cross-functional stakeholders
- Serve as a trusted technical partner to customers and internal delivery teams, resolving complex blockers and driving alignment
- Identify recurring patterns across engagements and turn successful solutions into reusable pipelines, evaluators, tooling, and best practices
- Define and improve technical standards for synthetic data generation, experimentation, evaluation, and delivery
- Partner with DaaS Engineering and Product teams to influence platform and product capabilities
- Lead technical design reviews, share expertise, and provide guidance to other engineers
- Stay current with emerging synthetic data, LLM evaluation, and data curation techniques and assess applicability to customer problems
Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience in machine learning engineering, data science, applied AI, forward deployed engineering, or similar technical role
- Strong Python skills and experience building reliable production data or ML systems, including containerizing with Docker and deploying on cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
- Hands-on experience with LLMs—building model-based applications and data workflows with the modern GenAI/LLM stack, and integrating systems, models, and data sources through APIs
- Strong understanding of ML experimentation and evaluation, including defining metrics and using empirical results to guide technical decisions
- Experience building synthetic data, data augmentation, or model-generated training and evaluation datasets
- Experience with LLM evaluation techniques (LLM-as-a-judge, model-based evaluation, rubric-based evaluation, or custom evaluators)
- Demonstrated ability to take ambiguous technical problems from problem definition through delivery, with strong technical communication and experience working directly with customers and cross-functional stakeholders
- Experience serving as a technical lead—setting technical direction, driving architecture and key decisions, mentoring engineers, and creating reusable approaches that influence broader outcomes
Skills
Required:PythonDockerCloud PlatformsLLMs / GenAI
Benefits
- Equity opportunities
- Competitive base salary plus variable compensation
- Hybrid work locations in New York, NY and San Francisco, CA with flexible onsite arrangements
Last updated Sep 30, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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