Forward Deployed Engineer

RRC • San Francisco, CA

22d • Remote

About The Position

RRC - Ruiz Recruiting & Consulting is a specialized recruitment firm trusted by startups and enterprise-level companies nationwide. We're working with a leading venture-backed startup pioneering the next generation of AI-driven workflow for enterprise operations. As a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), you will partner directly with our most strategic enterprise customers to design, implement, and scale custom AI Operator solutions that solve complex, real-world business challenges. Sitting at the intersection of product, engineering, and customer operations, you will translate intricate business requirements into robust technical architectures. You will own the technical build end-to-end: integrating AI systems with enterprise data sources, configuring our dynamic orchestration decision graphs, and shipping production-grade solutions that seamlessly coordinate data, rules, AI, and human-in-the-loop workflows.

Requirements

• 4+ years of professional software development, AI systems design, or data/solutions engineering experience.
• Strong skills with Javascript, Python, solid SQL capabilities, and comfort across systems integration.
• Professional/Non-Professional experience designing, building, and deploying production-grade applications that unify data pipelines, AI/ML features, and user-facing frontend interfaces.
• Direct experience integrating commercial AI APIs (such as Anthropic, OpenAI, or Gemini) into functional enterprise systems.
• Exceptional communication skills with the ability to build trust with technical peers, operational leaders, and executive stakeholders alike.
• Located in the United States

Nice To Haves

• Experience implementing and scaling complex data or AI/ML products within major, named enterprise accounts.
• Familiarity with distributed workflow/orchestration engines, rules-driven execution systems, event-driven architectures, or multi-agent frameworks.
• Experience constructing enterprise integrations involving secure authentication/authorization patterns, webhooks, data synchronization, and auditing.
• Industry experience working with high-volume operational environments, such as customer service, supply chain, or complex business-process operations.
• Prior experience as an early-stage startup employee, founder, or tech consultant.

Responsibilities

• Lead design decisions to build secure, scalable, and compliant workflows on our platform, aligning directly with customer infrastructures and engineering best practices.
• Program, configure, and extend core platform primitives to construct live, production-grade workflows that route tasks across static rules, AI models, humans, and third-party APIs.
• Ship fully integrated solutions encompassing data pipelines, LLM interfaces, customized operator portals, and immutable system event-logging for absolute traceability.
• Stand up custom, AI-powered automation sequences designed to resolve high-consequence operational work, integrating human-in-the-loop gates wherever risk or complexity demands it.
• Work hand-in-hand with customer teams—from frontline operational specialists to C-suite executives—to deeply understand their systems, ensure smooth adoption, and prove measurable business outcomes.
• Partner closely with internal Deployment Strategists, Product teams, and Sales to guide customers seamlessly from initial pre-sales scoping to live production.
• Package custom customer implementations into reusable accelerators, frameworks, and deployment patterns to accelerate future deliveries and directly influence our core product roadmap.

What This Job Offers

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