Velvet
Forward Deployed Engineer
We captured this posting once, on 2026-05-22, and did not track it afterwards — so we cannot tell you whether it is still open.
- Employer
- Velvet
- Location
- San Francisco, CA
- Seniority
- Not stated
- Experience asked for
- Not stated
- Pay band
- $175K – $200K
When we saw it
- Posted 2026-03-09 — the date the employer published it
- Archived 2026-05-22 — when we saved this copy
Found via LinkedIn — US keyword pulls.
Skills the posting named
From the posting
Skills: Operations, Python, SQL, Claude Code Velvet is a data research company founded by Lucas Mantovani (ex Meta FAIR) and Lucas Tucker (ex Adobe). Our mission is to make AI more human by producing high quality audiovisual datasets for frontier labs. We are hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer to sit at the intersection of our platform and the real-world operations that power it. This is a hands-on, execution-focused role. You will own the end-to-end lifecycle of getting people onto our platform, procuring the data we need, and writing the scripts that turn collected footage into clean, usable training data. What You'll Do Own data procurement: identify, recruit, and qualify participants for active data collection projects. Meet with researchers from top labs to build the highest quality video datasets for them. …
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