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Forward Deployed Engineer - Python developer, exp. in PyTorch

Talent Search PRO
4 days ago
Full-time
On-site
San Francisco, California, United States
$150,000 - $250,000 USD yearly
Salary - $150,000 - $250,000
 
What You'll Own
 
Work directly with customers to translate ambiguous dataset needs into concrete technical systems and delivery timelines
 
Build custom algorithms, models, and large-scale data pipelines spanning computer vision, audio processing, text processing, and metadata analysis
 
Move between research prototypes and production systems, using models and APIs creatively to solve customer problems
 
Break down customer-level goals into the models, heuristics, infrastructure, and QA steps needed to deliver
 
Optimize performance through pre/post-processing, parallelism, inference optimization, fine-tuning, and evaluation loops
 
Must-Have
 
Strong Python developer with hands-on experience building custom algorithms, model workflows, or large-scale data pipelines
 
Comfortable working directly with customers or external teams to translate ambiguous needs into technical systems
 
Deep intuition for dataset quality, filtering, labeling, evaluation, and edge cases
 
Able to move quickly between research prototypes and reliable production systems without creating brittle code
 
1 to 3 years of experience shipping technical work in a startup or high-velocity environment
 
Nice-to-Have
 
Experience building custom algorithms or ML workflows for production video, audio, or multimodal data
 
Hands-on work with large-scale data pipelines at scale
 
Background with PyTorch or similar ML frameworks in production
 
Active contributor to open source projects
 
Early hire experience at a startup