Forward Deployed Engineer – Applied AI

Wonderschool • San Francisco, MI

2d • Onsite

About The Position

Wonderschool is hiring a Forward Deployed AI Engineer to lead product development on strategically important initiatives. The role works directly with customers, traveling as needed to identify pain points and build AI-powered solutions that create measurable impact on revenue, operational efficiency, and user experience. The engineer identifies problems, ships code, drives adoption, and iterates quickly based on customer feedback, blending engineering, product, operations, and business leadership.

The role partners closely with sales, onboarding, and account management teams to automate workflows, improve customer experiences, and unlock growth. It is intended for a hands-on builder who enjoys solving real-world problems with customers in the field. The position is in person five to six days per week and requires regular client travel.

Requirements

• Experience starting a company, building products that gained users, or independently generating revenue.
• Comfort speaking with users weekly and translating insights into product decisions.
• Ability to independently ship production code.
• Experience with Python, JavaScript, or similar programming languages.
• Experience using AI/LLMs and developer tools such as Windsurf and Cursor.
• Business-minded approach to prioritization based on return on investment.
• Comfort operating in ambiguity and in a high-trust, high-impact, in-person environment.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in consulting, managing a P&L, or attending business school.

Responsibilities

• Work with users and internal teams to identify high-leverage problems and ship product solutions.
• Write production code, approximately 50% of the time, and deliver weekly improvements across the customer journey.
• Use AI accelerators such as Widesurf, Cursor, and other tools to improve development velocity and output quality.
• Build and deploy AI-powered tools that reduce manual effort and improve experiences for providers, parents, and government partners.
• Automate onboarding, proposal generation, reporting, and other operational workflows.
• Own the full product loop: user discovery, solution design, coding, testing, deployment, and adoption monitoring.
• Prioritize work based on business impact and collaborate across teams to achieve measurable results.
• Uncover user pain points, deploy AI-infused internal tools or product experiences, and iterate based on feedback and business metrics.
• Travel regularly to work with clients and be in person five to six days per week.

Benefits

• Opportunity to make a direct impact on families, small business owners, and communities.
• Founder-like ownership of the company’s most important priorities.
• Opportunity to join a small, fast-moving team with a bias for action.
• Opportunity to work directly with users, ship weekly, and see work drive real-world outcomes.
• Opportunity to help reimagine early education and child care.

What This Job Offers

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