Forward Deployed Engineer, Encord
+ Equity
3-5 days a week in office
Data platform for AI training
Open for applications
Data platform for AI training
101-200 employees
Open for applications
+ Equity
3-5 days a week in office
101-200 employees
Company mission
To solve AI alignment by tackling the real bottleneck: data quality.
Role
Who you are
- You have 3-6 years of experience in a client-facing role in a high-intensity, fast-paced environment
- You're as comfortable handling in-the-weeds product configuration queries as you are communicating to executives about a project plan. You are a great communicator and enjoy running demos, hosting workshops and building relationships with customers
- You derive energy from owning & successfully completing projects, and are great at balancing detail-focus with bigger-picture thinking
- You are highly organized and great at managing your time across many competing priorities
- You're ambitious and care lots about your career. You're probably happiest when working really hard and solving challenging problems. You know this requires dedication & some sacrifice but you think it's worth it. You want to rise faster than would be possible in any 'normal' career and you're happy to roll up your sleeves and do whatever is required
- You’ve consistently performed in the top percentile of whatever environment you’ve been in, whether in academia, business, sport, work, or whatever else you've put your mind to
What the job involves
- We’re looking for an exceptional Forward deployed engineer to join our post-sales team
- You’ll be excited to deploy a cutting-edge AI platform, shape a critical function for Encord & our customers, and accelerate your career in a fast-paced, high-growth environment
- As Encord's first FDE, you will own the deployment of the Encord platform, working with our customers to drive adoption and value-delivery
- You'll become a product expert, and work with internal teams (technical & commercial) to build a well-oiled engine that consistently enables customers to get up and running successfully, at scale
- You will be working on a mix of operational work (running onboardings and demos, ensuring integrations are set up correctly, guiding tech teams through best practices) and strategic work (establishing and improving processes, contributing to our product roadmap)
Our take
It has become increasingly clear that the next generation of AI applications will be driven by data-centric approaches concentrated around training data creation, management, and evaluation. Crucial within this process is the annotation or 'labelling' of data. Traditionally, such annotation has been left to human workers, which has historically made this part of the process of AI development expensive, slow, and difficult to scale.
Encord offers a computer vision annotation platform that automates a number of manual labelling tasks. Its suite of tools is designed for collaboration across roles and teams, from domain-expert annotators to project managers and machine learning engineers. This allows companies to iterate 10x faster, and develop and deploy high performing models in less time whilst saving on annotation costs.
Demand is clearly there: since its launch in 2020, Encord has facilitated the annotation of more than 100 million frames and images and served customers in verticals such as medical imaging, smart cities, sports analytics and satellite imaging. Furthermore, usage is scaling rapidly, with the number of labels generated on the platform growing ~70% month-over-month.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Aug 2024
$30m
SERIES B
Oct 2021
$12.5m
SERIES A
Total funding: $47.2m
Company benefits
- Flexible hours - Do your work when you are the most productive
- Hybrid - Work from home and in the office
- Fresh gear - We equip you with the newest Apple gear
- Health insurance - Your health is our top priority
- Time off - Generous PTO that allows you to recharge
- Visa sponsorship - We sponsor visas for exceptional candidates
- Team lunches - We buy lunch for the office on Fridays
- Cycle to work - Benefit from our cycle to work scheme
- Social events - Encord loves fun events with the team
Company HQ
North Beach, San Francisco
Leadership
Eric Landau
(CEO)With MScs from Harvard and Stanford, Eric spent 8+ years as a senior quant at DRW deploying ML at scale—before co-founding Encord to make data the core of AI development.
Ulrik Stig Hansen
(President)Ulrik spent 3+ years in Sales & Trading at J.P. Morgan and holds science master’s degrees from UCL and Imperial—before co-founding Encord to transform how AI handles data.
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