Founding Forward-Deployed Engineer

XDOF; San Mateo; On-site; PHP 800,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

XDOF is seeking a founding Forward Deployed Engineer in the Philippines to own delivery for strategic customers, translating needs into concrete data collection and annotation specs and ensuring their models improve with the shipped data.

You will be the main technical owner for accounts, interfacing between customer delivery and platform development, guiding early-stage motion as the company scales.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of engineering experience, ideally including customer-facing work.
• Strong production coding in Python with experience shipping data pipelines or infrastructure.
• High agency and comfort with ambiguity: you drive customer outcomes.
• Excellent communication and low ego: you explain tradeoffs to engineers and executives.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end delivery for a set of strategic customers, including scope, sequencing, QA, and blockers.
• Be the first technical responder for accounts; manage timelines and evolving data products.
• Represent XDOF's technical depth to customers while protecting proprietary methods.
• Turn recurring needs into input for data-engine, pipeline, and annotation roadmaps; codify learnings.
• As the role matures, lead platform-integration engagements and model fine-tuning services.

Skills

Python

Data pipelines

Customer facing

Communication

Ambiguity management

Tools

MCAP

HDF5

Job description

XDOF is seeking a founding Forward Deployed Engineer in the Philippines to own delivery for strategic customers, translating needs into concrete data collection and annotation specs and ensuring their models improve with the shipped data.

You will be the main technical owner for accounts, interfacing between customer delivery and platform development, guiding early-stage motion as the company scales.