Forward Deployed Researcher - Data as a Service

Job summary

Responsibilities

Snorkel AI is hiring Forward Deployed Researchers (Multiple levels) who will partner with frontier AI labs on their most challenging data problems. This is a high-impact, customer-facing role that combines deep technical and research credibility with the ability to work directly with customer…

• Own a technical domain end to end: the technical bar for what we build in it, and what we build next
• Partner with frontier AI research labs to design datasets and environments that improve model performance
• Lead technical conversations with customer researchers to understand model capabilities, failure modes, data requirements, and success criteria
• Probe model behavior through systematic evaluation to uncover weaknesses and identify high-impact data interventions
• Benchmark frontier models against our datasets to demonstrate value to customers, building or adapting evaluation harnesses as needed, and turn the results into pass-rate…

What they're looking for

• Strong expertise in frontier AI concepts including LLMs, training data pipelines, evaluation methodologies, post-training techniques (RLHF, DPO, RLAIF), and domain areas such as…
• 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

Tech stack

• Python