# Forward Deployed Engineer, Video

Hiring organization: [Protege](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/protege)

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/6dba65c8-18b8-4286-82a6-651a2bd2206c

Listed on Protege's own careers site. Applications go to them directly.

- Seniority: Mid
- Location: Remote
- Remote: yes

## Summary

A Forward Deployed Engineer supporting Protege's video data vertical, responsible for delivering custom datasets to AI customers while building scalable systems to process and curate video at scale. The role suits engineers who thrive in fast-paced environments, enjoy direct customer contact, and want to balance immediate delivery work with longer-term platform development.

_Our summary, not Protege's wording._

## Skills named

Amazon Web Services (AWS), Databricks, FFmpeg, Python, SQL, Vercel

## Required

- 3+ years of engineering experience with customer or external stakeholder exposure
- Direct experience working with media data, preferably video
- Built and operated systems that process, analyze, or deliver data at scale
- Ability to translate ambiguous requirements and communicate technical trade-offs to stakeholders
- Demonstrated end-to-end ownership from problem definition through implementation and support
- High tolerance for ambiguity and bias toward action with good judgment
- Comfort with intensity and pace of fast-moving environment with concurrent priorities

## Nice to have

- Hands-on experience with video processing at scale: codecs, transcoding, ffmpeg, shot detection, frame sampling, or quality measurement
- Early-stage company or startup experience with broad ownership
- Proficiency in Python and SQL
- Experience with search, vector embeddings, semantic retrieval, or ML-assisted data curation
- Experience evaluating or deploying vision-language models including evaluation harness development
- Product engineering experience or strong product mindset developed with users
- Experience with AWS, Databricks, Dagster, or Vercel

Apply on Protege's site: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/protege/5b9a6b80-3957-4fcc-9583-b8c977839343/application