Forward Deployed Engineer

About the company

Our client is a fast-growing technology company.

The role

Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Own customer-facing technical projects from the first conversation through to production delivery. Blend hands-on software development with direct client communication, converting loosely defined needs into dependable working systems and shipping them quickly.

What you'll do

- Partner directly with customers to turn vague needs into concrete technical plans and delivery timelines.

- Design and implement bespoke software, machine learning components and scalable processing workflows for varied kinds of data.

- Move between experimental prototypes and dependable production systems.

- Decompose customer goals into the technical components, infrastructure and quality checks needed to deliver.

- Improve speed and efficiency of workflows through concurrency, model tuning and iterative testing.

Requirements

What we're looking for

- Strong Python skills and a record of building data processing or machine learning systems.

- Comfort working directly with customers or external teams to clarify requirements.

- Good instincts for data integrity, curation and unusual cases.

- Ability to move from prototype to reliable production code without leaving brittle systems behind.

- 1 to 3 years shipping technical work in a startup or fast-paced environment.

- Motivation to deliver complete end-to-end outcomes rather than only research code.

- Interest in media technologies and cutting-edge AI applications.

Bonus points

- Prior work with machine learning systems handling rich media data in production.

- Experience operating data workflows at significant scale.

- Production experience with PyTorch or a similar framework.

- Open source contributions.

- Experience as an early hire at a startup.

Benefits

Compensation and benefits

- Base salary: USD 150,000 to 250,000 per year

- Equity

- Health insurance

- Retirement plan

Location and work model

- San Francisco, CA, United States

- On-site

- Full-time