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Director, Forward Deployed Researcher - Data as a Service

About Snorkel At Snorkel, we believe meaningful AI doesn’t start with the model, it starts with the data. We’re on a mission to help enterprises transform expert knowledge into specialized AI at scale. The AI landscape has gone through incr

Company

Snorkel AI

Location

New York City, NY (Hybrid); San Francisco, CA (Hybrid); United States (Remote)

Status

Open

Posted

2026-03-25T20:12:31+00:00

Snorkel AI is hiring a Director, Forward Deployed Researcher on its Data-as-a-Service team, a player-coach role split between managing a research team and hands-on work on strategic accounts. The team works with frontier AI labs on training data scoping, RL environments and evaluation frameworks. The posting asks for 8+ years in applied ML, AI solutions engineering or technical presales, 5+ years leading technical ICs, LLM and post-training (RLHF, DPO, RLAIF) expertise, and hiring and pipeline experience. Hybrid in New York or San Francisco, or remote in the US.