Forward Deployed AI Engineer

In this hands-on, customer-facing Forward Deployed AI Engineering role, you’ll work directly with enterprise teams to understand their workflows, build AI automations, and ship deployed solutions quickly. Coding makes up about 70% of the role, with the remaining time focused on scoping and post-sales engagement. You’ll also help bring what you learn from customer deployments back into the core platform.

What you’ll do

• Own enterprise customer engagements end to end, from requirements gathering through deployed solution delivery
• Build and ship AI agents and automations on the platform to deepen adoption across the largest accounts
• Partner with enterprise customers post-sales to scope business problems and deliver practical, working outcomes
• Move quickly, often delivering solutions the same week as the customer conversation
• Fold successful customer-specific implementations back into the core platform
• Collaborate with product and engineering so customer insight becomes scalable features

What you’ll bring

• 3–6 years of software engineering experience (no new grads) in forward-deployed, solutions, implementation, or product engineering
• Post-sales customer-facing engineering experience, including scoping a problem, building the solution, and shipping with a tight turnaround
• Background at a VC-backed startup that raised Series A or later from a top-tier investor
• Track record scaling enterprise deployments, shipping multiple features or automations for large customers
• Strong hands-on experience with Python and/or TypeScript
• A degree from a strong university (e.g., Ivies, Stanford, MIT, Berkeley, Duke, Harvey Mudd, Claremont McKenna, UIUC, or equivalent) is strongly preferred
• Ability to switch between customer engagement and deep coding work
• Comfort working on-site in San Francisco 5 days/week

Tools you’ll work with

• Python and/or TypeScript
• LLM and AI automation tooling such as OpenAI and LangChain

Compensation and work details

• Location: San Francisco, CA (SoMa) on-site
• Employment type: Full-time
• Compensation: $180,000–$300,000 per year + equity
• Visa sponsorship: Open to visa transfers (e.g., OPT, H-1B transfers)

Why this role

• Extreme ownership from day one: you work directly with customers and deliver end-to-end automations that land in their workflows immediately
• Top-of-market compensation: $180K–$300K base plus meaningful founding-team equity at an ~30-person company
• Join a senior team with backgrounds from marquee high-growth tech companies and top consulting, building in person in San Francisco
• Build cutting-edge AI agents that are helping transform a massive industry