Appen
The Forward Deployed Engineer partners directly with enterprise clients to design, deploy, and optimize GenAI data solutions, ensuring datasets and pipelines meet strict accuracy and performance requirements. This role involves translating client needs into scalable workflows, defining validation criteria, and collaborating with engineering teams to build reproducible pipelines. The position requires a consultative approach to guide stakeholders and deliver high-quality data for GenAI model development.
Headquarters
Kirkland, Washington, United States
Company Size
501-1000 employees
Founded
1996
Appen provides high-quality training data and data-labeling services to help organizations build, evaluate, and improve AI and machine learning models. Their offerings include data collection, annotation, transcription, and evaluation across speech, text, image and multimodal domains, supported by a large global, multilingual crowd and tooling for scalable delivery. Appen emphasizes quality, compliance, and operational scalability so enterprises can accelerate development, improve model accuracy and robustness, and deploy AI more confidently.
Headquarters
San Francisco, CA
Company Size
201-500 employees
Founded
2018
Industry
Technology
Glassdoor Rating
4.2 / 5
Sarah Johnson
Chief Executive Officer
Michael Chen
Chief Technology Officer
Emily Williams
VP of Engineering
David Rodriguez
VP of Product
Jessica Thompson
Chief Financial Officer
Andrew Park
VP of Sales
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