Cybernetic Labs
Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) - New Grad - 2026-2027
$138K–$160K
San Francisco · On-site · Entry level · Full-time · Posted Jul 15, 2026
About the job
Build and deploy multimodal AI agents and reliable systems that automate business operations for essential service companies, working directly with customers from design through rollout and iteration.
What you'll do
- Build and ship multimodal AI agents; evaluate, fine-tune, and A/B test text and voice models.
- Work with enterprise customers to map workflows, deploy the product, troubleshoot issues, and measure outcomes.
- Own end-to-end implementation and rollout, build systems for scale, and inform product and engineering roadmaps.
What they ask for
- Experience building and maintaining production systems using Python and TypeScript.
- Hands-on experience with LLM, TTS and speech APIs, model fine-tuning, vector databases, RAG, and evaluation frameworks.
- Ability to meet SLAs and optimize systems for speed and reliability at scale.
- Experience building production monitoring and debugging systems across cloud infrastructure and databases.
Pay
$138K – $160K (base salary; currency not stated)
Tools
Python, asyncio, FastAPI, TypeScript, Node, React, LLM, TTS
AI focus
Build multimodal AI agents for business operations; evaluate and fine-tune text and voice models, run A/B tests, and use RAG and evaluation frameworks.
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