# Forward Deployed Engineer, Audio

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

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/e6d1b50b-45a4-4d4c-a263-1a00bacf00e4

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

- Employment type: full time
- Location: Remote
- Remote: yes

## Summary

A forward-deployed engineer role supporting Protege's audio data business, combining hands-on technical leadership of customer engagements with platform development. This suits engineers who excel at learning fast in ambiguous settings, owning customer outcomes end-to-end, and building the reusable infrastructure that scales a vertical.

_Our summary, not Protege's wording._

## Skills named

Amazon Web Services (AWS), Data Labeling & Annotation, Databricks, Python, Transcription, Vercel

## Required

- 3+ years as an engineer with customer or external stakeholder exposure
- Direct experience with media data, ideally audio data
- Built and operated data processing, analysis, or delivery systems at scale
- Customer-facing communication: translating ambiguous requirements, discussing trade-offs, earning technical trust
- End-to-end ownership from problem definition through implementation, validation, and support
- High tolerance for ambiguity and bias toward action with sound judgment about escalation
- Ability to thrive in fast-paced environments with multiple concurrent priorities and time-sensitive work

## Nice to have

- Early-stage startup experience as a founding or early engineer
- Hands-on Python experience
- Product engineering experience or strong product mindset developed with users
- Exposure to search, vector embeddings, semantic retrieval, or ML-assisted data curation
- Experience with AWS, Dagster, Databricks, or Vercel
- Audio processing, speech or music ML, transcription, diarization, annotation, quality measurement, privacy or redaction workflows

Apply on Protege's site: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/protege/2d001d2f-40a0-428d-96cb-114323c38cd8/application