Forward Deployed Engineer

Location: San Francisco, CA, 5 days/week in office

Salary: $200K - $325K + Offers Strong Equity

Industry: AI / Enterprise Automation

Who You'll Join

A Series B AI infrastructure company automating manual workflows across enterprise teams. Serval has product-market fit and is already trusted by Fortune 100 companies like General Motors, Ramp, and Vercel. You'll join a 15-person engineering team shipping real product that solves concrete operational problems.

What You'll Do

1. Build production systems for strategic customer deployments, turning complex requirements into scalable implementations.
2. Design and implement backend services and APIs that expand the platform's capabilities.
3. Own technical delivery from architecture through launch, scaling, and ongoing optimization.
4. Translate customer pain points and edge cases into reusable product features.
5. Write code on the core platform daily while partnering with customers on high-impact deployments.
6. Partner directly with customers, sales, and engineering teams to move from idea to production.
7. Help shape a new function from the ground up with clear ownership and visibility.

Who You Are

1. Strong technical foundation with at least one year of professional software engineering experience.
2. Comfortable writing backend code and shipping production systems with high standards.
3. Able to communicate clearly with enterprise customers and represent the company professionally.
4. Interested in learning how enterprise customers think and work.
5. Driven to solve real problems and iterate quickly in an early-stage environment.
6. Bonus: Background from a strong university, early-stage startup, or VC-backed fellowship program.

Tech Stack

Backend development, APIs, system design, integrations, production observability.

Why You'll Thrive

1. You'll be an engineer first, coding daily on the core platform alongside customer-facing work.
2. Rare opportunity to meet and learn from Fortune 100 customers as a junior engineer.
3. Strong equity package with aggressive vesting for a Series B company.
4. Flat structure with direct visibility to the CTO and influence on product direction.
5. Product-market fit means your work ships and creates immediate business value.