Forward Deployed Engineer, SF

Recruiting From Scratch•San Francisco, CA

1d•Onsite

About The Position

As the first Forward Deployed Engineer in San Francisco, you'll establish the company's US Forward Deployed Engineering function while partnering directly with engineering leaders at some of the world's most innovative software companies. You'll combine deep software engineering, product development, customer architecture, and technical leadership while helping shape both customer deployments and the core product itself. This is an exceptional opportunity to join a hypergrowth AI infrastructure company where engineers operate with founder-level ownership, define entirely new functions, and build technology used by world-class engineering organizations.

Requirements

3–8 years of professional software engineering experience
Experience shipping production software end-to-end
Experience working at high-growth startups or technically demanding engineering organizations
Experience writing production code recently in modern software environments
Experience owning customer deployments, integrations, or technical implementations
Strong startup ownership mentality with demonstrated engineering execution
Experience working directly with engineering customers and technical stakeholders
Founding engineer, ex-founder, or early engineering experience strongly preferred
Experience working across customer-facing engineering and product development preferred
Experience operating independently with significant technical ownership
Strong full-stack software engineering fundamentals
Expert JavaScript and TypeScript experience
Strong understanding of browser internals and modern web architecture
Experience debugging unfamiliar production codebases
Strong CI/CD pipeline and testing infrastructure knowledge
Experience with Web APIs and frontend platform architecture
Strong systems design and software architecture capability
Ability to solve complex algorithmic and coding problems under pressure
Experience integrating developer tooling into large production environments
Comfortable rapidly understanding and improving sophisticated engineering systems
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or another technical discipline preferred
Strong engineering background with demonstrated software development expertise
Top technical universities or exceptional engineering accomplishments strongly preferred
Outstanding technical problem-solving
Strong engineering ownership
Excellent customer communication skills
High execution mentality
Comfortable operating with ambiguity
Strong collaboration skills
Entrepreneurial mindset
Structured systems thinker
Passion for developer tools and engineering productivity
Continuous learner embracing modern AI-assisted software development

Responsibilities

Own end-to-end customer deployments from technical discovery through production rollout
Architect implementation strategies for enterprise engineering organizations
Embed directly with customer engineering teams to integrate the platform into complex production environments
Write production code across the company's core platform to unblock customer deployments
Debug complex browser internals, CI/CD systems, testing infrastructure, and web application architectures
Build new platform capabilities driven by customer requirements
Navigate unfamiliar production codebases and rapidly identify technical solutions
Partner directly with VP Engineering, Staff Engineers, and executive technical leadership at enterprise customers
Lead technical pilots while serving as the primary engineering point of contact
Shape the long-term product roadmap through insights gathered from customer deployments
Establish Forward Deployed Engineering processes, tooling, and best practices as the US organization scales
Collaborate closely with the CTO, founders, engineering leadership, and product teams to deliver exceptional customer outcomes