Forward Deployed Engineer

Skills: Operations, Python, SQL, Claude Code

We are hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer to sit at the intersection of our platform and the real-world operations that power it. This is a hands-on, execution-focused role. You will own the end-to-end lifecycle of getting people onto our platform, procuring the data we need, and writing the scripts that turn collected footage into clean, usable training data.

What you'll do

• Own data procurement: identify, recruit, and qualify participants for active data collection projects.
• Meet with researchers from top labs to build the highest quality video datasets for them.
• Write and maintain post-processing scripts that clean, validate, and package raw video data for training world models.
• Identify and resolve operational issues — failed video uploads, payment problems, etc
• Build lightweight internal tools and automations to reduce manual work and increase throughput as we scale.

Who you are

• A technically savvy generalist with impressive professional or academic accomplishments, comfortable writing data pipelines, making deals, and meeting with top researchers.
• Someone who gets things done
• Detail-oriented and reliable when managing people and data at scale, where errors have downstream consequences.
• Comfortable working in ambiguous, fast-moving environments

Even better if you have

• Background in research operations, data labeling platforms, or data collection.
• Experience building large-scale data processing pipelines.
• Background in ML research.

You will thrive in this role if

• You are energized by operational work that has immediate, visible impact.
• You treat broken processes as engineering problems worth solving properly.
• You hold yourself to a high bar for data quality, knowing this determines model performance.