Founding Forward Deployed Engineer

Job Position: Founding Forward-Deployed Engineer

Millbrae, CA (SF Bay Area) | Full-time (Monday - Friday), in person | $160,000–$245,000 base + equity

An early-stage AI company in the Bay Area is hiring its first Forward-Deployed Engineer. You'll put agentic AI into production at industrial and enterprise customers. You'll own each deployment from scoping through go-live, working directly with customers and the founders.

What you'll do

• Scope customer deployments and own them end to end
• Write the last-layer integrations into the customer's stack (APIs, webhooks, ETL across ERP, CMMS, ServiceNow and SAP)
• Build and ship agentic and RAG features
• Run solutions in production and feed what you learn back to the product team
• Travel about 25% domestically to customer sites

You have

• 1–5 years as a forward-deployed, solutions or implementation engineer who writes and ships code
• Owned at least one customer deployment from scoping to production
• Built agentic or RAG features yourself
• Experience integrating with enterprise systems
• Work authorization in the US and the ability to work on-site in the Bay Area

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