Forward Deployed Engineer

H Company • Austin, TX

6d • $150,000 - $180,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

H Company is a next-generation AI research and product company pioneering the future of autonomous, agentic AI. Founded to build intelligence that acts, H Company is creating the foundational infrastructure for autonomous AI systems that drive real-world outcomes across industries.

The Forward Deployed Team is committed to ensuring the successful implementation of our Agents to help our customer automate and optimize tasks, and allow them to focus on what really matters. The team is also responsible to shape the future vision of our products by distilling learnings from the field into the H platform.

That platform empowers a wide range of professionals and businesses to safely, easily and autonomously deploy agents at scale for a broad range of tasks: from ensuring websites behave as expected to automating repeated tasks.

Requirements

• 3+ years of professional software engineering experience, ideally in fast-paced environments (e.g., startups, consulting, or product teams), or otherwise proven technical acumen through projects and past experiences
• Experience working with AI/ML systems, especially integrating LLMs or other agentic workflows into real products
• Fluency in at least one backend language (e.g., Python, Go, Node.js, Java) in addition to English ;-)
• Familiarity with frontend frameworks (e.g., React, Vue) and a good sense of UI/UX tradeoffs
• Experience building and deploying production systems—APIs, services, infrastructure, and/or data pipelines
• Proficiency in integrating third-party APIs, databases, and external systems in a secure and reliable way
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to thrive in ambiguous, customer-facing environments
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
• Bias for action—able to ship quickly, iterate fast, and own the full lifecycle of solutions
• Willingness to travel for on-site deployments or customer engagements

Responsibilities

• Understand and identify customer’s most important and impactful multi-step task to automate
• Seamlessly integrate with customer systems, including but not limited to databases, third-party APIs, and internal tools, etc.
• Rapidly iterate in the field with tight feedback loops to continuously improve product fit and drive end-to-end solution delivery
• Architect, build, and maintain production-grade services that scale with usage and complexity
• Collaborate closely with product, research, and engineering teams to shape the roadmap and align on priorities based on findings in the field

Benefits

• Base salary range: $150,000 to $180,000 based on experience.
• Be part of the founding journey of one of the most exciting AI startups shaping the future of AI and agentic systems.
• Collaborate with a fun, dynamic and multicultural team, working alongside world-class AI engineers, researchers, and builders in a high-trust, high-impact environment.
• Enjoy a competitive compensation package, including salary and equity
• Unlock opportunities for professional growth, continuous learning, and career development

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed