Forward Deployed Engineer
$165k - $250kWintermeyer Ventures
Job Description
Job Description
About the Role
Join a growing forward-deployed engineering team building AI-powered claims solutions for the insurance sector. You will lead customer deployments from initial scoping through launch, while shaping product development with insights from real-world use.
What You'll Do- Deploy multimodal and agentic AI systems into production for client stakeholders.
- Own customer engagements end to end, serving as the primary technical contact from scoping through go-live.
- Build trusted relationships with client teams, understand their challenges, and align delivery with business priorities.
- Design and improve AI agents using prompt engineering, model integrations, and rapid prototyping.
- Scope and build product features that help customers scale and improve claims outcomes.
- Integrate the product into client environments by working directly with their technical teams on APIs and systems.
- Coordinate with the core platform team and document deployment practices to improve future delivery.
- At least 2 years of experience in forward-deployed or customer-facing engineering, as a founder or founding engineer, or as a software engineer seeking customer-facing work.
- Experience deploying multimodal or agentic AI systems into production.
- Hands-on experience integrating systems or products into client environments, including APIs and client systems.
- Working knowledge of Python, APIs, cloud platforms, LLMs, prompt engineering, and agentic AI concepts.
- Ability to communicate complex technical ideas in terms of business outcomes to technical and non-technical audiences.
- Sound judgment, a pragmatic approach, and comfort working in a fast-moving, unstructured environment.
Base salary: $165,000 to $250,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is available.
LocationOn-site in San Francisco, California.
Vacancy posted 2 days ago
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