Guild.ai
Forward Deployed Engineer
$180K–$300K
San Francisco +1 · Hybrid · Full-time · Posted Sep 24, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco
New York City - Experience
- 3+ years in technical pre-sales and 3+ years in software engineering.
About the job
Leads customer-facing technical engagements, designing and implementing production agent-based solutions that integrate Guild’s platform with customer systems while informing product development and supporting sales.
What you'll do
- Discover customer workflows, and design, build, and deploy agent solutions and integrations.
- Build supporting services and interfaces; operate solutions in cloud-native environments.
- Partner with sales and product engineering, advise customers, and turn field insights into product requirements and reusable integrations.
What they ask for
- 3+ years of technical pre-sales experience partnering with sales teams to position complex technical products and drive deals to closure.
- 3+ years of software engineering experience.
- Deep comfort with third-party APIs, authentication protocols, and enterprise systems.
- Ability to navigate ambiguous requirements, develop maintainable solutions, and communicate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Nice to have
- Experience building with LLM APIs or agentic frameworks.
- Background in developer tools, infrastructure, or enterprise SaaS; familiarity with Kubernetes and cloud-native scaling.
Pay
$180K – $300K (base salary; pay type not specified)
Tools
Slack, GitHub, Salesforce, OpenAI, Anthropic, Python, TypeScript, React
AI focus
Build and deploy agent-based workflows using LLM frameworks and APIs; integrate agents into customer environments and production systems.
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