Forward Deployed Engineer

Our client is a seed-stage AI company in San Francisco that deploys AI agents into the real operational workflows of Fortune 500 enterprises. The team is a high-bar mix of operators, engineers, and strategists, working AI-natively with no layers or process overhead.

Forward Deployed Engineers are client-facing builders. They take an AI agent from the first client conversation to production, then move to a new enterprise and a new problem every few months. Customer-facing work and hands-on technical work are both heavy parts of the job: sitting in discovery calls, gathering requirements and mapping processes, then building POCs and shipping them. This is not a pure engineering, strategy, or research role; it sits between building a demo and running agents inside a Fortune 500 team.

The role involves 20–40% travel to client sites. The team currently works 10am to 8pm, Monday to Friday, and is likely to move to Monday to Saturday.

• →Embed with client teams (finance, legal, ops, HR, IT) and map how work really runs, including exceptions and workarounds
• →Turn ambiguous business problems into agent workflows with success criteria, guardrails, and evals
• →Build prototypes and working agents, then drive adoption by training and sitting with end users
• →Present findings and results directly to C-suite stakeholders
• →Co-create KPIs with client leadership and measure the uplift after deployment

• Location: San Francisco, CA (in-person, with 20–40% travel to client sites)
• Schedule: 10am–8pm, Monday to Friday (likely moving to Monday to Saturday)
• Employment: Full-time
• Experience: 2+ years
• Salary: $160,000 – $230,000 USD per year, plus equity
• Visa Sponsorship: Available (H-1B)

1. Screen
2. Vibe check
3. Technical screen
4. Case study
5. Sales interview
6. Onsite
7. Offer

Please include the following with your application:

• LinkedIn profile

• GitHub profile
• Current company
• Current title

• Location
• Do you need sponsorship now or in the future?
• Are you open to relocating to the Bay Area?