Forward Deployed Engineer, AI Training Data (San Mateo, CA)

Lavendo partners with startups and high‑growth companies to help them hire top‑tier sales, GTM, and technical talent. This role is with one of our clients; we’ll share full details about the company and interview process as we get to know you and confirm mutual fit. About the Company Our client is a fast-growing AI infrastructure company that has built a state-of-the-art data curation platform used to train some of the most demanding deep learning models in the world. Their technology automatically curates and optimizes petabytes of training data — algorithms that are modality-agnostic and require no labels — to make model training dramatically faster and more efficient. Customers see results that speak for themselves: 7x–40x faster training, model performance equivalent to training on 10x more raw data, and smaller models (with less than half the parameters) that outperform larger ones and substantially cut deployment costs. Backed by $57.5M raised across Seed and Series A, with investors including Microsoft, Amazon, Felicis, and AI luminaries like Geoff Hinton, Yann LeCun, and Jeff Dean, our client has built a lean team of ~60 people. This is a company already proving out results with real enterprise customers. The Mission Foundational models are only as good as the data they're trained on. Our client exists to close the gap between raw data and truly optimized training data — without requiring labels, without adding compute cost, and without forcing customers to compromise