Director of Frontier AI & Data Solutions

Snorkel AI; New York (NY); On-site; USD 228,800 - 403,200; Full time

Job summary

Snorkel AI is hiring a Director, Forward Deployed Researcher on the Data-as-a-service team. The role blends people leadership and hands-on technical work on strategic accounts, setting the bar for specs and building scalable processes.

You will partner with AE, Delivery, Research, and Engineering to deliver data-driven AI solutions. The position requires 8+ years in ML/AI leadership with strong frontend research expertise, and a track record of hiring technical talent in a fast-moving GTM

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in applied ML, AI solutions engineering, technical presales, or research-intensive customer-facing roles.
• 5+ years managing or leading technical individual contributors, ideally in a presales or solutions engineering org.
• Strong expertise in frontier AI concepts including LLMs, training data pipelines, evaluation methodologies, post-training techniques (RLHF, DPO, RLAIF), and domain areas such as coding agents, reasoning, multimodal models, or RL environments
• Track record of hiring and developing technical talent
• Experience operating against revenue or pipeline goals in a GTM organization
• Excellent communication skills, able to coach a team, partner with sales leadership, and engage credibly with frontier AI researchers
• Ability to work in a fast-moving environment, comfortable with ambiguity and rapid iteration

Responsibilities

• Recruit, hire, and develop the forward deployed research team, coaching the team on technical quality, customer engagement, and career growth
• Set and maintain the technical bar for specifications, evaluation frameworks, and customer deliverables
• Own SE capacity planning and account coverage; partner with AE leadership on deal strategy, engagement prioritization, and pipeline forecasting
• Establish team processes and playbooks for discovery, spec development, and knowledge sharing
• Lead technical conversations on select strategic accounts, including scoping, solution design, and partnership with frontier AI research teams
• Serve as escalation point for technically complex or high-stakes customer situations

Skills

8+ years of ML/AI roles

5+ years leadership

Frontier AI concepts

Hiring and mentoring

GT/M pipeline goals

Strong communication

Adaptability

Education

B.S. in Computer Science or Machine Learning

Job description

Snorkel AI is hiring a Director, Forward Deployed Researcher on the Data-as-a-service team. The role blends people leadership and hands-on technical work on strategic accounts, setting the bar for specs and building scalable processes.

You will partner with AE, Delivery, Research, and Engineering to deliver data-driven AI solutions. The position requires 8+ years in ML/AI leadership with strong frontend research expertise, and a track record of hiring technical talent in a fast-moving GTM