Senior Forward-Deployed Engineer for AI Agents

FDE Times; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 320,000; Full time

Job summary

Snorkel AI is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer focused on computer-use agents to partner with leading AI labs and enterprises on high-impact agentic-AI initiatives.

You will lead technical execution across the full delivery lifecycle, translating ambiguous challenges into robust task environments, data, evaluators, and delivery plans that improve agent reliability and downstream performance.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in machine learning engineering, software engineering, applied AI, forward deployed engineering, solutions engineering, or a similar technical role.
• Strong Python skills and experience building reliable production software, data, or ML systems.
• Hands-on experience building, evaluating, or deploying LLM-based or agentic systems, including computer-use agents (CUA).
• Strong understanding of experimentation and evaluation, including LLM-as-a-judge / model-based evaluation, defining metrics, and using empirical results to guide technical decisions.
• Experience designing task environments, datasets, and verifiers for agents, including reward & verifier design (RL with verifiable rewards).
• Experience building or working with APIs, automation, web applications, browser-based systems, desktop applications, or developer tools.
• Experience manipulating, analyzing, and validating large or complex datasets using Python and the modern GenAI/LLM stack.
• Demonstrated ability to take ambiguous technical problems from problem definition through implementation and delivery.
• Strong technical communication skills and experience working directly with customers or cross-functional stakeholders.
• Demonstrated experience setting technical direction, creating reusable approaches across projects, and influencing broader engineering or product decisions.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical workstreams from initial solution design through production delivery, navigating ambiguity and making sound technical decisions.
• Build, refine, and iterate on solutions that address customer needs, incorporating feedback to ensure the delivered work provides tangible value.
• Rapidly prototype and productionize solutions across models, agent frameworks, APIs, browser or desktop environments, and custom applications.
• Communicate technical tradeoffs, experimental results, and recommendations clearly to technical and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Serve as a trusted technical partner to customers and internal delivery teams, resolving complex blockers and driving alignment.
• Identify recurring patterns across customer engagements and turn successful solutions into reusable task frameworks, evaluators, tooling, and best practices.

Skills

Python

LLM/Agentic systems

Machine learning engineering

Data analysis

Customer-facing collaboration

Tools

APIs

Browser-based environments

Desktop applications

LLM evaluation tooling

Experimentation frameworks

Job description

Snorkel AI is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer focused on computer-use agents to partner with leading AI labs and enterprises on high-impact agentic-AI initiatives.

You will lead technical execution across the full delivery lifecycle, translating ambiguous challenges into robust task environments, data, evaluators, and delivery plans that improve agent reliability and downstream performance.