Forward Deployed Engineer – Enterprise AI
Summary
Forward deployed engineer at a seed-stage San Francisco startup that automates white-collar engineering and life-sciences work and sells RL environments to frontier AI labs. You embed with enterprise customers, build automations and evals, own deployments, and run customer calls and upsells; on-site in SF on a 9-9-6 schedule.
You write production code and you're at your best in front of the customer. Automate real engineering work, from the shop floor to the eval.
A fast-growing seed-stage company in San Francisco automates white-collar work in engineering and life sciences, and sells the resulting RL environments to frontier AI labs. It already runs at an eight-figure revenue rate and is backed by angels from leading AI labs and private-equity firms. The team of six is growing to about fifteen by year end.
They're hiring 2 forward deployed engineers.
What you'll own
- Embedding with enterprise customers, for example alongside the engineers who do CAD modelling
- Building the automation, and the evals that prove it works on real data
- Deployment and rollout, and feeding the lessons back into a shared platform
- Customer calls on your own, plus upsells and new opportunities between projects
Must-haves
- You've worked as an FDE (an AI startup is ideal), or in an engineering role at a company that runs forward-deployed teams
- You write strong code and have put software into production, preferably while working directly with clients or as a consulting engineer
- Comfortable running a customer meeting alone, and proactive when a project is quiet
- At least 1 year of experience
- Working from the San Francisco office, 9-9-6
Bonus points
- AI agents, enterprise integrations or automating workflows for engineering or life-sciences clients
- Evals or tests for systems whose output is hard to verify
- A phase two or upsell you scoped yourself
What's in it for you
- $175k–$350k base, plus commission and 0.1–0.5% equity
- Real trust: you face customers without a founder in every meeting, paired with a project lead on each engagement
- Health cover, a gym, and a $1,000 monthly meal budget
Good to know
- Full-time, on-site in San Francisco, 9-9-6
- Visa options are limited: US citizens and green card holders, refugees or asylees, and H-1B, O-1 or TN holders can be considered, so please share your exact status
- Process: profile review → whiteboard session (1 hour) → open-ended coding interview (1 hour) → one day on-site → offer
When you apply, please include
- Your CV (PDF), your LinkedIn URL, and GitHub if you have one
- A customer deployment you owned: the situation before, what you built, and how it ran in production
- Your current location, and confirmation that on-site San Francisco works for you
- Your visa or citizenship status, and if you'll need sponsorship
- Your base salary expectation, your notice period, and any other interview processes you're in
Does this sound like you? Apply now. If you're a match, we'll be in touch within 3 working days.
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