Factored | Forward-Deployed AI & Data Engineers
Forward-Deployed AI & Data Engineering
Factored engineers embed in your environment, work across your stack, and drive critical engineering through production.
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Enterprise AI Breaks Across Fragmented Systems
Factored engineers work across those boundaries to move AI and data systems into secure, reliable production.
Data Foundations
- Pipelines
- Platforms
- Context
AI & ML Systems
- Forecasting
- Recommendations
- Anomaly detection
- Computer vision
- Agentic AI
Production Workflows
- Applications
- Automations
- Analytics
SECURITY · GOVERNANCE · EVALS · OBSERVABILITY
Expert FDEs Deployed On Your Behalf
Technical Judgment
Our engineers bring a point of view on architecture, tooling, and sequencing, earned across 100’s of real-world AI and data engagements.
Tech Agnostic By Design
Model, cloud, and platform neutral. Our recommendations follow your problem, not a vendor roadmap.
Embedded Through Production
Working in your environment and your time zone, our engineers build context quickly and remain accountable through production.
Specialized Engineers Across AI & Data
AI Engineering
Machine Learning
Data Science
Data Engineering
Data Analytics
AI, Built To Scale
Agentic systems, enterprise applications, RAG, orchestration, evals, guardrails, observability, and secure integration.
Design, develop, and maintain data and AI applications
System architecture, testing, and optimization for performance
Deploy resilient AI/ML solutions to drive revenue
From Promising Models To Real-World Impact.
Designing ML and AI systems that operate in production, at scale, under real constraints. From classical ML to GenAI, we excel at deployment, monitoring, and measurable outcomes.
End-to-end ML systems
Production-ready AI applications
GenAI with evaluation and guardrails
Predict Outcomes, Optimize Decisions And Create Advantages.
Applying advanced analytics, statistical modeling, and experimentation to high-impact forecasting, risk, optimization, and decision science.
Predictive and prescriptive models
Experimentation and causal analysis
Decision-support systems
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Fast, Resilient Data Pipelines
Engineering high-performance data platforms through architecture design and optimized pipeline orchestration.
Cost optimization for large-scale data processing
Analytics and AI-ready data platforms for business teams
Resilient, governed architectures supporting high-volume workloads
Turn Data Into Decisions.
Designing scalable analytics infrastructure that delivers trusted insights and accelerates decision-making to drive measurable business impact.
Executive and operational decision dashboards
KPI frameworks tied to revenue and efficiency outcomes
Self-serve analytics for business teams, accelerating insight to decision-making
Powered By A Proven Talent Engine
Identifying, vetting, and developing exceptional AI and data engineers across the Americas.
Rigorously Vetted: Technical assessments, live evaluation, and role-specific screening validate real engineering depth before deployment.
Continuously Developed: Residency, research, and ongoing technical training keep engineers current across AI, ML, and modern data systems.
Proven Accelerators & IP: Reusable architectures, tools, and accelerators bring proven patterns to every engagement.
Built To Scale With You: 500+ specialized engineers lets us expand teams as your systems, priorities, and technical requirements evolve.
Matched To The Problem: Engineers are selected for the specific architecture, stack, domain, and workstream.
Founded With Dr. Andrew Ng. Built For Excellence
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Founded With Dr. Andrew Ng
AI & Data excellence was built into Factored from day one, with Dr. Andrew Ng as co-founding advisor and technical quality at the core.
Built exclusively around AI, ML, Data Science, and Data Engineering
Established a rigorous technical vetting and development model
Forward-deployed engineering model built around client production environments
30,000 Hours of Open Speech Data
Factored helped build The People’s Speech with MLCommons, establishing an early track record of engineering AI infrastructure at scale.
Published research presented at NeurIPS
Contributing to open AI research alongside NVIDIA, Intel, Harvard, and MLCommons
Expanding production engineering across AI, ML, and Data
Published at NeurIPS
Factored helped build DataPerf, advancing standardized benchmarks for measuring the data behind ML systems.
Published engineering research across data-centric AI and ML
Building production systems across the AI & Data stack
Technical work spanning benchmarks, datasets, ML systems, and enterprise applications
NeurIPS Best Paper
Factored engineering contributed to PRISM, recognized with Best Paper in the NeurIPS Datasets & Benchmarks Track.
Published engineers across NeurIPS and ICML
Research spanning LLMs, evaluation, data quality, and responsible AI
Production engineering across hundreds of real-world AI & Data engagements
1M+ Hours of Multilingual Speech Data
Factored co-developed web-scale AI infrastructure spanning more than 1 million hours of speech across 89+ languages.
Research spanning speech AI, LLM evaluation, data quality, and geospatial AI
Technical collaborations with MLCommons, Common Crawl, and NASA Harvest
48+ TB processed in a single open speech research initiative
Award-Winning Research at CVPR
Factored earned Best Short Paper at AI4RWC / CVPR, continuing a multi-year record of recognized AI research.
20 research publications across Factored’s growing research portfolio
Published and presented across NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, CVPR, and Nature Medicine
500+ AI & Data engineers spanning AI, ML, Data Science, Data Engineering, and Analytics
Agentic AI & Machine Learning At Scale
Machine Learning
Technology
AI Hallucinations
Stop False AI Reasoning in Production
AI Engineering
Financial Services
AI for Major Incidents
Cut Response Time And Protect SLAs
Machine Learning
Retail & CPG
Market Research LLM
Get Days of Research In Minutes
Forward Deployed Engineering. In Your Environment. In Your Time Zone.
Inside your standups, architecture decisions, workflows, and production environments
We build on your stack, for your business
1,000’s of AI & Data engagements across complex production environments