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Forward Deployed Engineer
Up to $325K + equity
San Francisco, CA
On-site
IT automation
Series A
190 people
About the role
Who You'll Join
A Series B AI infrastructure company automating manual workflows across enterprise teams. The company has product-market fit and is already trusted by Fortune 100 companies and fast-growing tech leaders. You'll join a 15-person engineering team shipping real product that solves concrete operational problems.
What You'll Do
- Build production systems for strategic customer deployments, turning complex requirements into scalable implementations.
- Design and implement backend services and APIs that expand the platform's capabilities.
- Own technical delivery from architecture through launch, scaling, and ongoing optimization.
- Turn what customers struggle with, edge cases included, into product features that many customers can use.
- Write code on the core platform daily while partnering with customers on high-impact deployments.
- Work with customers, sales and engineering to take ideas all the way into production.
- Help build this function from its first day, with clear ownership and a visible role.
Who You Are
- Strong technical foundation with at least one year of professional software engineering experience.
- Comfortable writing backend code and shipping production systems with high standards.
- Able to communicate clearly with enterprise customers and represent the company professionally.
- Interested in learning how enterprise customers think and work.
- Driven to solve real problems and iterate quickly in an early-stage environment.
- 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
- You'll be an engineer first, coding daily on the core platform alongside customer-facing work.
- Rare opportunity to meet and learn from Fortune 100 customers as a junior engineer.
- Equity with aggressive vesting for a Series B company.
- Flat structure with direct visibility to the CTO and influence on product direction.
- Product-market fit means your work ships and creates immediate business value.