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    Forward Deployed Engineer

    Any, United StatesRemoteFull-time$150k – $200k / yearPosted 2w ago
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    Job description

    Role Purpose

    The Forward Deployed Engineer works directly with enterprise clients to design, deploy, and optimise GenAI data solutions, with full ownership of final delivered data quality. Embedded across engineering, data operations, and client delivery, this role ensures datasets, pipelines, workflows, and automations meet defined accuracy, reliability, and performance requirements for GenAI model development.

    Your Impact

    • Act as a trusted consultative partner to clients by defining requirements, clarifying success criteria, shaping high‑quality annotation guidelines, and proactively providing insights and innovative solutions that strengthen trust and improve data quality, efficiency, and model outcomes.
    • Influence the what and the why behind GenAI data solutions by translating ambiguous client needs into clear, scalable workflows.
    • Deliver zero-defect GenAI datasets that meet all defined acceptance and quality criteria.
    • Build scalable, reproducible, and observable validation and automation pipelines that reduce variance, manual review effort, rework, and time to validation.
    • Contribute reusable quality frameworks and validators adopted across multiple projects.

    What you Bring

    • Experience working on GenAI, machine learning, or model evaluation data.
    • A consultative problem-solving approach when leading client conversations, asking sharp questions, and guiding stakeholders toward better decisions.
    • Hands-on experience designing and implementing data pipelines, validation systems, or workflow automation.
    • Previous experience in owning final data quality and acting as the authority on delivery readiness.
    • The ability to translate business or model development needs technical workflows and validation logic.
    • Confidence in working directly with client engineering or machine learning teams.
    • Strong documentation that prioritizes reproducibility, observability, and reliability.

    Why You’ll Love Working Here

    At Appen, we foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, and excellence. We value curiosity, accountability, and a commitment to delivering the highest-quality AI solutions for frontier models.

    You’ll work on complex challenges that shape the future of AI across industries and geographies, alongside talented people in a culture that values humility over ego. You’ll have the flexibility to deliver in a way that works for you and your team, supported by tools, resources and development opportunities to continue to build your capability over time.

    About Appen

    Appen has been a leader in AI training data for over 30 years. We specialise in human generated data to train, fine tune, and evaluate models across generative AI, large language models, computer vision, and speech recognition. Our AI assisted data annotation platform and global crowd of more than 1 million contributors in over 200 countries support model pre-training, supervised fine tuning, evaluation and benchmarking, safety and red teaming, and multilingual global expansion.

    The total target compensation for this full-time role ranges from $150K–$200K USD annually, inclusive of base salary and performance-based incentive. Actual compensation is determined based on role, level, experience and technical expertise. Appen offers a comprehensive benefits package, including medical, dental, and vision coverage, retirement plan options and paid time off.

    Job details are sourced from the employer's original posting.

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    About the company

    Appen

    At Appen, we work with 8 out of the top 10 global technology companies in the world to improve and optimize their products for users worldwide, including social media platforms, search engines, voice recognition systems, and eCommerce sites. The world of tech is moving fast, and since our founding in 1996 we rose to the challenge by becoming a publicly listed company and by building an international team that works in over 130 countries and in more than 180 languages.   Do you love to surf the internet and want to influence how we interact with technology? As a Search Engine Evaluator with Appen you have the opportunity to provide feedback on news feeds, advertisements and search results. Your ideas have a direct impact on the services and content from social media and search platform sites that we use every single day.   You Might Fit This Role If: • You are looking for a flexible work opportunity where you contribute to projects and grow your skills • You are an active and engaged user on social media platforms such as Facebook and Instagram • You enjoy working independently • You want to do internet-based work from home

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