Labelbox
1 open Forward Deployed Engineer role at Labelbox. Curated with comp bands.
Comp on the board: $190K–$320K TC.
On the board since Jun 2026 · still hiring
Our take
Why Labelbox
Eval and data-engine work all day — a niche seat, but the most durable skill in the FDE toolkit, with a clear exit into lab eval teams.
- FDE type
- True forward-deployed
- Travel
- Medium
- Comp
- Competitive
- Stage
- Growth-stage
A good fit if you're…
- Engineers who care about evals, data quality and RLHF pipelines
- People aiming for a future lab eval or post-training team
- SF or US-remote candidates
What they do
Labelbox provides a data platform and expert-labeling services that frontier labs and enterprises use for human feedback, evaluations and model QA. It sits in the same data-for-AI market as Scale AI and Snorkel.
What “forward deployed” means here
FDEs help customers build data engines: human-feedback pipelines, eval harnesses and model-QA workflows. It is technical, customer-embedded work with less integration plumbing than typical agent FDE roles.
Comp & leveling
The board shows $190K–$320K TC with 5 open roles. That is competitive for growth-stage infra, below lab bands, and the eval experience tends to pay off at the next job.
Growth signals
Five open FDE roles and demand for post-training data from frontier labs support the seat. The risk is concentration: data vendors depend on a small number of very large buyers.
Analysis updated 2026-09-28
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