Forward Deployed Engineer, Audio

Remotedxb; Dubai; On-site; AED 180,000 - 320,000; Full time

Job summary

Protege is building a platform to facilitate the secure, efficient, and privacy-centric exchange of AI training data, solving the critical need for high-quality data access in the AI industry.

The role involves transforming raw audio into structured datasets, prototyping production-ready systems, and guiding customer engagements from feasibility through post-delivery support.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience as an engineer with customer exposure.
• Experience working directly with media data (audio preferred).
• Experience building and operating systems that process or deliver data at scale.
• Ability to translate ambiguous requirements and communicate trade-offs.
• Demonstrated end-to-end ownership of technical implementations.
• Comfort with the intensity and pace of a fast-moving environment.

Responsibilities

• Develop solutions to transform raw audio into organized, ready-to-sell datasets.
• Build prototypes and phase them into reliable production systems.
• Manage customer engagements from feasibility through post-delivery support.
• Translate customer model-development goals into executable technical plans.
• Identify recurring patterns to build shared cross-vertical platform capabilities.
• Build technical playbooks and quality standards for the audio vertical.

Skills

Customer exposure

Media data experience

Data at scale

Requirements translation

End-to-end ownership

Adaptability

Tools

Python

AWS

Dagster

Databricks

Vercel

Vector embeddings

Job description

Responsibilities

• Develop solutions to transform raw audio into organized, ready-to-sell datasets
• Build prototypes and phase them into reliable production systems
• Manage customer engagements from feasibility through post-delivery support
• Translate customer model-development goals into executable technical plans
• Identify recurring patterns to build shared cross-vertical platform capabilities
• Build technical playbooks and quality standards for the audio vertical

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience as an engineer with customer exposure
• Experience working directly with media data (audio preferred)
• Experience building and operating systems that process or deliver data at scale
• Ability to translate ambiguous requirements and communicate trade-offs
• Demonstrated end-to-end ownership of technical implementations
• Comfort with the intensity and pace of a fast-moving environment

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience at an early-stage company or startup
• Hands-on experience with Python
• Experience with search, vector embeddings, or semantic retrieval
• Experience with AWS, Dagster, Databricks, or Vercel
• Experience with audio processing, speech ML, transcription, or diarization

About the Company

Protege is building a platform to facilitate the secure, efficient, and privacy-centric exchange of AI training data, solving the critical need for high-quality data access in the AI industry.