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Lavendo
San Mateo, California, US
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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.
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 on model quality. Every strategic account this team lands is a chance to prove that better data curation, not just bigger models, is the unlock the industry has been missing.
The Opportunity
As Forward Deployed Engineer (Post-Sales)
, this is a rare role at a company small enough that your fingerprints will be on every major account, and well-funded enough that the roadmap, the compensation, and the customer roster are all already real. You'll be one of the founding members of the post-sales technical org, working directly with strategic enterprise accounts to take them from signed contract to production deployment — and shaping the playbooks that the next wave of hires will use.
If you've been looking for a role that lets you stay hands-on with distributed systems and model training while also owning the high-stakes customer relationships, this is that role.
This role is built for people who bring both deep post-sales, customer-facing deployment experience and hands-on ML/model training expertise with measurable results. If you're strong in only one of these two areas, this likely isn't the right fit — but we'd still encourage a conversation if you're close.
Why Join?
Compensation
$230,000–$300,000 base plus extremely competitive equity
100% covered health benefits (medical, vision, and dental)
401(k):
401(k) plan with a 4% company match
Unlimited PTO
Annual $2,000 wellness stipend
Annual $1,000 learning and development stipend
Daily lunches and snacks provided in the office
Relocation assistance for employees moving to the Bay Area
With a lean team of ~60 people, you'll be the technical owner of some of the company's most strategic customer relationships
You're joining a company whose product already delivers 7x–40x faster training and measurable model performance gains for real customers
$57.5M raised from Microsoft, Amazon, Felicis, and AI pioneers including Geoff Hinton, Yann LeCun, and Jeff Dean
4 days per week in the San Mateo, CA office, with the rest of the team building alongside you in person
Open to visa transfers, including OPT and H-1B transfers
Interviewing Process
Initial Screen
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