Senior Forward Deployed Engineer

Forward Deployed Engineer - US (Remote)

Comp: up to $210K base + 20% OTE + Equity

Runtime is hiring on behalf of our client, a fast-growing AI developer tools company redefining how the worlds most ambitious engineering teams ship code.

The company:

$120M raised, Series B

ARR 10xd last year

Enterprise customers include some of the biggest names in tech and retail

Named in Gartners Magic Quadrant - and just hit number one for their category

The problem theyre solving:

Engineering teams are shipping more AI-generated code than ever. The bottleneck isnt generation anymore - its quality. Using the same model to write and review your code is a conflict of interest, and enterprises are waking up to that fast. This company made that bet 18 months ago. The market caught up.

The job, honestly:

You show up where the sales conversation ends. Your job is to make the product indispensable.

Embed with enterprise engineering teams - figure out whats actually blocking them

⚡ Spin up a proof of concept fast - not \"well scope that next quarter,\" today

If the product cant quite do it yet, you build the workaround yourself

Take what you learn in the field back to engineering - not a complaint, roadmap intel

Reach for Claude before you reach for the logs - this team is AI-first and means it

What youll bring:

Python and TypeScript - production grade, not tutorial level

Real hands-on experience with agentic systems and MCP servers

Youve sat in the room with enterprise engineering teams and earned their trust

⚡ You can go from ambiguous customer problem to working prototype fast

You keep digging after you find the first issue - the answer is usually one layer deeper

Why now:

This is a founding FDE hire. The first people in define how forward deployment works here - the standards, the playbooks, the technical bar. What you learn in production directly shapes what the core team ships next. That window doesnt stay open forever.

Sound like your kind of problem? Drop me a message or lets grab 15 mins.