Forward Deployed Engineer, Audio

Protege
United States
Workplace: RemoteFull timeFunction: Software EngineeringSkills: ["Customer-facing communication","Trade-off communication","End-to-end ownership","High ambiguity tolerance","Bias to action"]

Own the technical success for Protege’s audio customers end to end, turning raw audio (often unstructured or missing metadata) into organized, ready-to-sell datasets. Build and scale reusable pipelines, prototypes that evolve into production systems, and tools/workflows that support active partner deals. Partner with the audio GM, product/platform engineering, data lab, and commercial teams to translate customer goals into executable plans with clear acceptance criteria.

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Job Summary

Own the technical success for Protege’s audio customers end to end, turning raw audio (often unstructured or missing metadata) into organized, ready-to-sell datasets. Build and scale reusable pipelines, prototypes that evolve into production systems, and tools/workflows that support active partner deals. Partner with the audio GM, product/platform engineering, data lab, and commercial teams to translate customer goals into executable plans with clear acceptance criteria.
Location: United States
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Develop and own solutions that transform raw audio (often lacking metadata) into organized, ready-to-sell datasets.
  • •Build prototypes and evolve them into reliable production systems that others can understand and operate.
  • •Work end to end with the audio GM and technical/commercial stakeholders from feasibility through post-delivery support.
  • •Translate customer model-development goals into an executable technical plan with clear acceptance criteria.
  • •Turn deal work into product leverage by identifying reusable platform capabilities and building audio playbooks and quality standards.

Key Requirements

  • •3+ years of engineering experience, including meaningful exposure to customers or external technical stakeholders.
  • •Experience working directly with media data, with bonus points for audio data.
  • •Experience building and operating systems that process, analyze, or deliver data at scale.
  • •Customer-facing ability to translate ambiguous requirements, communicate trade-offs, and build trust with technical stakeholders.
  • •Demonstrated end-to-end ownership from problem definition through implementation, validation, and support.
Skills:Customer-facing communicationTrade-off communicationEnd-to-end ownershipHigh ambiguity toleranceBias to action
Tech Stack:PythonAWSDagsterDatabricksVercelVector embeddingsSemantic retrievalML-assisted data curation

Company Brief

Protege
Provides a privacy‑first platform that connects data holders with vetted AI developers to license and deliver high‑quality, multimodal training and evaluation datasets across healthcare, media, audio, and motion capture.
Industry: Data Infrastructure
Company Size: Small (11 to 50 employees)
Growth: Growth Stage Startup
Funding: Series A
Headquarters: New York City, United States
Founded: 2024
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