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Forward Deployed Engineer, Enterprise AI
$155K–$170K
San Francisco, CA · On-site · Full-time · Posted Sep 2, 2026
- Experience
- 1–4+ years of engineering experience.
About the job
Embeds with enterprise customers to understand their workflows and build, deploy, evaluate, and improve production AI agents that address business needs.
What you'll do
- Develop and deliver customer-specific AI solutions, owning the process from problem definition through deployment and iteration.
- Design and run evaluations to measure and improve agent performance; establish reusable engineering practices and frameworks.
- Work with Product and Platform engineers and share deployment insights to inform the product roadmap.
What they ask for
- 1–4+ years of full-stack engineering experience, with strong backend depth.
- Real-world experience building and shipping AI applications in production.
- Strong understanding of agent architectures, evaluations, and systematic performance improvement.
- Comfort working directly with enterprise customers in ambiguous, high-stakes environments.
Nice to have
- Experience building multi-agent systems in production.
- Familiarity with enterprise security requirements, VPC deployments, or on-prem configurations.
Pay
$155K – $170K (base salary; currency not specified)
AI focus
Build and deploy production-grade AI agents for enterprise workflows; design evaluations and iteratively improve agent performance.
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