Halluminate
Member of Technical Staff - Forward Deployed Engineer
$215K–$275K
San Francisco · On-site · Staff · Full-time · Posted Aug 17, 2026
- Experience
- 2+ years in consulting or forward-deployed engineering roles; compensation notes Level 2 (2-5 years of experience).
- Visa sponsorship
- Sponsors visas, including H-1B.
About the job
Build customer-specific AI environments and tooling, translating customer needs into technical requirements and helping deliver and scale projects.
What you'll do
- Work with AI labs and enterprise customers to understand requirements and define technical specs.
- Prototype, ship, and iterate on customer-specific environments and tooling; support project delivery through integration and debugging.
- Share recurring solutions with platform teams so they become reusable capabilities.
What they ask for
- 2+ years in consulting or forward-deployed engineering roles serving large enterprises with custom software, systems, and requirements.
- Strong engineering ability and comfort interacting directly with customers.
- Track record of shipping 0-to-1 work under ambiguity without waiting for a specification.
- Experience building evals, environments, and benchmarks for AI Agents.
Nice to have
- Financial services domain exposure, such as investment banking, private equity, or hedge funds.
- Former founder or experience at an early-stage startup.
Pay
$215K – $275K USD base salary
AI focus
Build and deliver RL environments, evals, and benchmarks for AI Agents and support frontier intelligence scaling.
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