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$180,000 - 230,000/ year

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About the Role

Join an early-stage AI customer success software team as a Founding Forward Deployed Engineer. You will work directly with enterprise customers to put AI agents into production, deliver measurable value, and bring field learnings back into the product.

Responsibilities

  • Work with customers to understand their onboarding, adoption, and renewal processes and identify where AI agents can help.
  • Configure and deploy agents with customer data sources and systems, including data warehouses, CRM platforms, SSO, and other integrations.
  • Build evaluations using real customer data, improve agent performance, and validate quality before deployments.
  • Partner with go-to-market teams during technical sales, customer activation, and account expansion.
  • Improve the core platform based on customer needs and resolve issues in live deployments through debugging and root cause analysis.
  • Own focused end-to-end projects that demonstrate value, then expand successful deployments.

Requirements

  • Three to seven years of experience in customer-facing software engineering, forward-deployed engineering, solutions engineering, or a related role.
  • Experience owning technical customer rollouts and building and deploying LLM agents, including prompts, evaluations, and complex, long-running workflows.
  • Strong Python and FastAPI skills, with React experience; familiarity with LLMs, RAG, PostgreSQL, BigQuery, CI/CD, and agent frameworks is relevant.
  • Experience in an early-stage, high-growth startup environment, alongside customer-facing deployment work.
  • Strong computer science fundamentals, stable role tenure, and evidence of career growth.
  • Based in or willing to relocate to the San Francisco Bay Area, with experience working in a hybrid environment.
  • Authorized to work in the United States without visa sponsorship.

Conditions

Base salary range: $180,000 to $230,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is not available.

Hybrid in San Francisco, California, United States.

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Likely still hiring, not crowded yet, and you'd be among the first.

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  • Still on the company's own careers site, checked 1 h agoModerate evidence
  • Found in the last 48 hours, before the big job boardsModerate evidence
  • States its salarySlight evidence

Against it2

  • Listed for the 12th time after earlier listings of it closedModerate evidence
  • Posted 5 times at once for the same place: mass postings are often a pipeline, not one seatSlight evidence

How crowded?

6 checks

Low

In its favour2

  • In its Early Window: not on the big job boards yetStrong evidence
  • In the office in San Francisco: only people nearby can take itSlight evidence

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Tech stack
  • React
  • Python
  • PostgreSQL
  • CI/CD
  • LLMs
  • RAG
Type
Full-time
Specialty
Forward Deployed
Region
United States
Pay period
Annual
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Role

Category
Solutions & Support
Specialty
Forward Deployed
Tech stack
  • React
  • Python
  • PostgreSQL
  • CI/CD
  • LLMs
  • RAG

Location

Work model
Office
Region
United States
Office
  • San Francisco, United States
Visa sponsorship
Not sponsored

Compensation

Salary
$180,000 - 230,000 / year
Pay period
Annual

Employment

Type
Full-time

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