Forward-Deployed Engineering Lead

1mind

20h•Onsite

About The Position

We’re looking for a Forward Deployed Engineering Lead to build 1mind’s forward deployed motion from the ground up. This is one of the most important hires we’re making right now — the person who fills it will define how our newest products land inside customer environments and will set the technical bar for a function we expect to scale rapidly. You’ll embed directly with customers to deploy 1mind’s AI Superhumans into their live web applications — ramping quickly on unfamiliar products, working deep in the DOM and browser rendering layer, and building the automation that makes our agents perform reliably across every surface a buyer touches. You’ll own deployments end-to-end: scoping, building, shipping, and iterating alongside customer teams until the product delivers measurable value. This is a senior, hands-on technical lead role. You’ll start as the anchor engineer on our flagship deployment, then expand the motion across our existing customer base — codifying playbooks, shaping the tooling, and laying the foundation for the forward deployed organization we build around you.

Requirements

Significant hands-on front-end engineering experience building and shipping production web applications — a must for this role.
Strong JavaScript, HTML, and CSS fundamentals, with deep working knowledge of HTML elements and the accessibility tree (ARIA).
Deep expertise in the DOM and browser rendering pipelines — static, SSR, and CSR — and comfort debugging rendering issues in the browser console and dev tools.
Deep production experience with modern front-end frameworks (React, Vue, or Svelte).
Production experience with UI automation tooling: Playwright, Puppeteer, or Chrome DevTools Protocol.
Solid grasp of authentication and web state: cookies, sessions, tokens, and local/session storage.
Working knowledge of AI/LLM systems — prompting, retrieval, and orchestration — and genuine curiosity about deploying agents in production.
Proven ability to ramp quickly on unfamiliar web applications and operate effectively in ambiguous, fast-moving customer environments.
Strong customer-facing communication skills; comfortable leading technical conversations with customer engineering teams.
Based in or willing to relocate to the San Francisco Bay Area.

Nice To Haves

Experience in a forward deployed, solutions engineering, or technical consulting role at a high-growth AI or developer-facing company.
Experience building browser extensions or working deeply with the Chrome extension ecosystem.
Cross-platform automation experience spanning desktop and mobile browsers.
Deeper experience with RAG pipelines, agent frameworks, or AI orchestration layers.
Experience creating playbooks, tooling, or processes that scaled a technical function beyond yourself.

Responsibilities

Lead end-to-end forward deployments of 1mind’s products — from technical scoping and system design through production rollout inside customer web environments.
Ramp rapidly on unfamiliar web applications, tracing and debugging HTML/DOM and rendering issues across static, server-rendered, and client-rendered architectures.
Build and maintain robust UI automation using Playwright, Puppeteer, and Chrome DevTools Protocol to drive reliable agent behavior across desktop and mobile, and across Chrome/Chromium, Firefox, Safari/WebKit, and Edge.
Work hands-on with the AI orchestration layer — prompts, retrieval, and agent configuration — to tune Superhuman behavior for each customer’s product and workflows.
Handle real-world auth and web state — cookies, sessions, tokens, and local/session storage — to make deployments secure and resilient.
Serve as the senior technical partner to customer engineering teams: run technical discovery, translate business needs into deployment plans, and communicate clearly with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Codify what works into repeatable playbooks, internal tooling, and documentation that make every subsequent deployment faster.
Feed deployment insights back into the product roadmap, working closely with engineering and product leadership.