Forward Deployed Engineer

Job Description

What you Bring
Experience working on GenAI, machine learning, or model evaluation data.
A consultative problem-solving approach when leading client conversations, asking sharp questions, and guiding stakeholders toward better decisions.
Hands-on experience designing and implementing data pipelines, validation systems, or workflow automation.
Previous experience in owning final data quality and acting as the authority on delivery readiness.
The ability to translate business or model development needs technical workflows and validation logic.
Confidence in working directly with client engineering or machine learning teams.
Strong documentation that prioritizes reproducibility, observability, and reliability.
Why You’ll Love Working Here

At Appen, we foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, and excellence. We value curiosity, accountability, and a commitment to delivering the highest-quality AI solutions for frontier models.

You’ll work on complex challenges that shape the future of AI across industries and geographies, alongside talented people in a culture that values humility over ego. You’ll have the flexibility to deliver in a way that works for you and your team, supported by tools, resources and development opportunities to continue to build your capability over time.

About Appen

Appen has been a leader in AI training data for over 30 years. We specialise in human generated data to train, fine tune, and evaluate models across generative AI, large language models, computer vision, and speech recognition. Our AI assisted data annotation platform and global crowd of more than 1 million contributors in over 200 countries support model pre-training, supervised fine tuning, evaluation and benchmarking, safety and red teaming, and multilingual global expansion.