Forward Deployed Engineer

Sponsorship: No Sponsorship Available

Location: San Francisco, CA

Work Model: Hybrid (3 days/week in office)

Compensation: $200K–$250K base

This role sits at the intersection of engineering, product, and customer problems. As a Forward Deployed Engineer, you’ll work directly with enterprise customers to understand real‑world workflows, identify high‑impact opportunities, and rapidly build AI‑powered MVPs that solve meaningful business problems. You’ll operate with a high degree of autonomy, scoping ambiguous requirements, leveraging AI tools to move fast, and delivering working solutions in days rather than months. When something proves valuable, you’ll collaborate with product and engineering teams to turn those learnings into scalable platform capabilities that shape the future of the product

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What You’ll

• Partner with customers to understand complex workflows and pain points
• Scope high‑impact problems and build MVPs/prototypes quickly (often in days)
• Leverage modern AI tools to accelerate development
• Collaborate with PMs and engineers to turn successful experiments into product features

What We’re Looking For

• Strong engineering fundamentals and product intuition
• Comfortable operating with ambiguity and high ownership
• Excited about AI‑native development and rapid iteration
• Strong communicator and collaborator

Experience

• 5 years of experience building MVPs and POCs
• Backgrounds in forward deployed, growth, solutions, startup, or enterprise engineering are a strong plus

Interview Process

• Initial technical screen
• Onsite/day‑long working session solving a real problem with the team
• Final conversation focused on product and business thinking