Early Access Deployment Engineer

• Engage deeply with strategic customers during the earliest alpha stages to understand their goals, workflows, technical constraints, and highest-value opportunities.

• Translate emerging and ambiguous model capabilities into scoped use cases, working prototypes, and clear success criteria.

• Prototype rapidly with customers, Product, and Research through experiment-driven iteration.

• Design and support evaluations that reveal model behavior, solution quality, workflow impact, and failure modes.

• Evaluate and troubleshoot based feedback across product, model behavior to determine patterns and gaps

• Own early access program execution end to end, from customer onboarding and live experimentation through synthesis and launch decisions.

• Align Research, Product, Engineering, GTM, Legal, Security, Marketing, and launch teams by communicating risks, tradeoffs, and recommendations clearly.

• Codify architectures, evaluation methods, technical patterns, and program learnings into reusable playbooks that improve future deployments.

• Have 4+ years of software engineering or equivalent technical experience, including meaningful customer-facing delivery and ownership of production systems.

• Have a track record of rapidly turning ambiguous ideas into working prototypes and carrying the strongest approaches through to reliable solutions. Can demonstrate examples of systems thinking.

• Be proficient in Python and/or JavaScript or TypeScript, comfortable across modern front-end and back-end development, and familiar with cloud deployment.

• Bring practical AI and LLM depth, including experience reasoning about model behavior, designing evaluations, and building production-oriented AI applications.

• Exercise strong product and customer judgment by identifying the highest-value problem, scoping the right experiment, separating signal from noise, and balancing speed with technical integrity.

• Own problems end to end, learn unfamiliar technical or domain concepts quickly, and impose useful structure without waiting for perfect information.

• Manage several high-stakes technical engagements at once while anticipating blockers, adapting plans, and maintaining momentum across customers and internal teams.

• Communicate complex ideas with clarity and empathy, challenge assumptions constructively, and build trust with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

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