VP, Head of Forward Deployed Engineering

Job summary

Responsibilities

In this role, you will lead and scale Snorkel’s entire Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) organization. These are the engineers who design, build, and run the data pipelines used by the world’s leading AI labs and enterprises.

• Lead and scale the FDE organization: set the vision, define the operating model and org design, and align team plans and strategy with company priorities.
• Drive hiring in hypergrowth: build a strong bench of engineering managers and tech leads, and keep the hiring bar high while the organization scales rapidly.
• Coach and develop EMs and TLMs who run pods of FDEs, helping them grow from single-project owners into leaders who see and solve problems across the delivery organization.
• Drive reuse across the organization: identify patterns across bespoke deliveries, have FDE build the first version, and partner with Platform Engineering to scale them…
• Set engineering standards for how the FDE organization works, including pipeline design, data evaluation and verification, delivery sign-off, and root cause analysis, so every…

What they're looking for

• 10+ years in software or ML engineering, including 5+ years leading multiple teams as a manager of managers.
• Experience scaling an engineering organization of ~100 engineers, owning team planning, strategy, and alignment with company needs.
• A strong engineering background in software or ML engineering. A background in ML infrastructure or data platforms is strongly preferred.
• Experience building and shipping AI/ML systems to production, with strong experience using automated verification to decide what’s good enough to ship.
• A track record of hiring and scaling engineering teams through hypergrowth.