> AI agents: this is one page of Nextmove’s FDE site, in Markdown. Nextmove is a job board and free career service for forward deployed engineers (FDEs). Each posting is classified from its text, not its title: the kind of work, how much of it is production code, pre-sales weight, time at customer sites, travel, remote arrangement, level and posted base pay. The site also publishes the aggregates: median pay by level, metro, company and kind of work, and which companies started hiring FDEs each week. Every page under https://nextmove.md/fde is served this way; the index of pages is https://nextmove.md/llms.txt. # Senior/Staff Forward Deployed Engineer - Computer Use Agents Canonical URL: https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/a1a38531f7571d5a Snorkel AI posts a FDE role to build what the customer runs in New York, NY and 1 more, at $180,000–$320,000 base, above the senior FDE median of $190,000 across 1,864 postings with pay. Leads customer-facing technical engagements to build and deliver task environments, datasets, and evaluation systems for computer-use agents. Read from the employer’s posting on November 8, 2026. - [Snorkel AI](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/snorkel-ai) Posted Aug 27, 2026 by Snorkel AI · open on Greenhouse as of Nov 8, 2026 **$180,000–$320,000** New York, NY +1 Hybrid Leads customer-facing technical engagements to build and deliver task environments, datasets, and evaluation systems for computer-use agents. - [See roles that fit me](https://nextmove.md/sign-up?from=%2Ffde%2Fjobs%2Fa1a38531f7571d5a&placement=top) - [View posting at Snorkel AI](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/snorkelai/jobs/6167049004) Free. Upload your resume once, see why each FDE role fits, and get introduced only when you say so. ## At a glance ### Posted base pay $180K–$320K Above the median Midpoint $250K · median $190K This job $180K to $320K. Senior FDE postings, 1,864 postings: the middle 50% of posted pay is $160K to $220K, median $190K. ### The work Builds what the customer runs Balance **Mostly building** Project stages 1. Pre-sales (not covered) 2. Proof of concept (not covered) 3. Implementation 4. Operations - **Coding**: Writes production code - **Builds for**: Both - **Level**: Senior - **Role**: Technical lead ### What they ask for Experience - **5+ years** machine learning engineering, software engineering, applied AI, forward deployed engineering, solutions engineering, or similar technical role Background - **Software engineering** - **Solutions and customer engineering** - **Forward deployed engineering** ### Do you meet what the posting states? The posting asks for 5+ years. How many do you have? The posting reads as a senior role. What level are you at now? The job is in New York, NY · San Francisco, CA. Could you work in one of these? Which of these have you used in production? Answer each one. 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[What postings ask for, by background →](https://nextmove.md/fde/paths) ## Conditions - **Location**: New York, NY · San Francisco, CA - **Work arrangement**: Hybrid - **Remote work restrictions**: Hybrid in New York City, NY or San Francisco, CA - **Pay**: ## More like this [Binti](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/binti) ### [Forward-Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/2ab6678dd001933d) San Francisco, CA · Seattle, WA Hybrid 2mo ago $200,000–$300,000 [ChipAgents](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/chipagents) ### [Software Engineer, ML for EDA](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/5b4582d6cf8deb16) San Jose, CA On-site New · 4d ago $150,000–$350,000 [OpenClaw Foundation](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/openclaw-foundation) ### [Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/bc34865d20736808) San Francisco, CA On-site 4mo ago $200,000–$300,000 - [Other jobs at Snorkel AI (7)](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/snorkel-ai) ## The job description from Snorkel AI Posted by Snorkel AI on Aug 27, 2026 ### About Snorkel Snorkel AI is the frontier AI data lab, helping teams build the data and environments behind high-performing frontier and agentic AI. We combine technology with research-driven AI data development to create datasets, benchmarks, evals, and custom solutions for real-world AI systems. Founded out of the Stanford AI Lab in 2019, Snorkel works with leading AI labs and enterprises to move from better data to better outcomes. Excited to help us redefine how AI is built? Apply to be the newest Snorkeler! ### About the Role Snorkel AI is hiring a **Forward Deployed Engineer focused on Computer Use Agents** to partner with leading AI labs and enterprises on their most critical agentic-AI initiatives. In this role, you will lead the technical execution of complex customer engagements involving agents that operate computers, browsers, and software environments to complete realistic, multi-step tasks. You will translate ambiguous product and model challenges into robust task environments, datasets, evaluators, and delivery plans that improve agent reliability and downstream performance. You will work across the full delivery lifecycle—from technical discovery and solution design through implementation, evaluation, and production delivery. You will also identify patterns across engagements and turn successful approaches into reusable capabilities, technical standards, and product improvements. ### Main Responsibilities ### Computer Use Agents, Data, and Evaluation - Design and build task environments, datasets, and evaluation workflows for computer-using agents operating across browsers, desktop applications, terminals, and other software interfaces - Translate customer goals, agent failure modes, and real-world workflows into representative, multi-step tasks with clear success criteria - Develop data-generation, validation, and quality-assurance pipelines for multimodal and agentic training and evaluation data - Build automated evaluators, checks, and measurement frameworks to assess task completion, correctness, robustness, efficiency, and adherence to requirements - Diagnose agent failures across planning, tool use, perception, state management, and interaction with user interfaces; turn findings into improved tasks, data, and evaluations - Design and run experiments to measure how data, task design, and evaluation changes affect downstream agent performance - Deliver reusable, production-grade task suites, datasets, and evaluation assets that help customers train, benchmark, and improve computer-use agents ### Forward Deployed Engineering & Customer Partnership - Lead technical workstreams from initial solution design through production delivery, navigating ambiguity and making sound technical decisions - Build, refine, and iterate on solutions that address customer needs, incorporating feedback to ensure the delivered work provides tangible value - Rapidly prototype and productionize solutions across models, agent frameworks, APIs, browser or desktop environments, and custom applications - Communicate technical tradeoffs, experimental results, and recommendations clearly to technical and cross-functional stakeholders - Serve as a trusted technical partner to customers and internal delivery teams, resolving complex blockers and driving alignment ### Technical Leadership & Scale - Identify recurring patterns across customer engagements and turn successful solutions into reusable task frameworks, evaluators, tooling, and best practices - Define and improve technical standards for agent task design, environment reliability, evaluation, and delivery - Partner with DaaS Engineering, Research, and Product teams to influence platform and product capabilities based on real-world customer needs - Lead technical design reviews, share expertise, and provide guidance to other engineers - Stay current with emerging agentic-AI, computer-use, evaluation, and data-curation techniques and assess their applicability to customer problems ### What We're Looking For - 5+ years of experience in machine learning engineering, software engineering, applied AI, forward deployed engineering, solutions engineering, or a similar technical role - Strong Python skills and experience building reliable production software, data, or ML systems - Hands-on experience building, evaluating, or deploying LLM-based or agentic systems, including computer-use agents (CUA) - Strong understanding of experimentation and evaluation, including LLM-as-a-judge / model-based evaluation, defining metrics, and using empirical results to guide technical decisions - Experience designing task environments, datasets, and verifiers for agents, including reward & verifier design (RL with verifiable rewards) - Experience building or working with APIs, automation, web applications, browser-based systems, desktop applications, or developer tools - Experience manipulating, analyzing, and validating large or complex datasets using Python and the modern GenAI/LLM stack - Demonstrated ability to take ambiguous technical problems from problem definition through implementation and delivery - Strong technical communication skills and experience working directly with customers or cross-functional stakeholders - Demonstrated experience setting technical direction, creating reusable approaches across projects, and influencing broader engineering or product decisions ### Preferred Qualifications - Experience developing agent benchmarks, task suites, or simulators - Experience with multimodal models, visual grounding, or evaluating agents that interact with graphical user interfaces - Experience with repo-scale agentic coding tasks, agent tool protocols & interop, or productized browser/computer-use agents - Experience building data pipelines for fine-tuning, reinforcement learning, preference optimization, benchmarking, or model evaluation - Experience working in fast-paced, customer-facing environments where requirements and technical approaches evolve quickly ### Compensation The base salary range for this position is **$180,000–$320,000**, with an additional variable compensation opportunity. The exact mix of base salary and variable compensation will depend on the role level and work location. Final compensation will be determined based on job-related skills, experience, relevant education or training, interview performance, and other business considerations. Most offers include equity and benefits. Actual compensation will be determined based on factors including skills, qualifications, experience, and geographic location. Salary range(s) for this role $180,000—$320,000 USD ### Be Your Best at Snorkel Joining Snorkel AI means becoming part of a company that has market proven solutions, robust funding, and is scaling rapidly—offering a unique combination of stability and the excitement of high growth. As a member of our team, you’ll have meaningful opportunities to shape priorities and initiatives, influence key strategic decisions, and directly impact our ongoing success. Whether you’re looking to deepen your technical expertise, explore leadership opportunities, or learn new skills across multiple functions, you’re fully supported in building your career in an environment designed for growth, learning, and shared success. *Snorkel AI is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and is committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. Snorkel AI embraces diversity and provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment. Snorkel AI prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type on the basis of race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, performance, merit, and business need.* *We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.* [View posting at Snorkel AI](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/snorkelai/jobs/6167049004) ## About Snorkel AI Data-centric AI platform and expert-data provider that helps enterprises and frontier labs build, evaluate, and tune specialized models and agents. 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