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Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, Enterprise AI
$220K–$300K
San Francisco, CA +1 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 16, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco, CA
New York, NY - Experience
- 5-6+ years of engineering experience.
About the job
Build and deploy production-grade AI agents in enterprise customer environments, owning solution design, evaluation, and iteration to improve business outcomes.
What you'll do
- Embed with enterprise customers to understand their workflows and define AI solutions for real business needs.
- Build, deploy, evaluate, and iteratively improve production AI agents; own end-to-end delivery.
- Develop reusable engineering practices and agent frameworks, collaborate with Product and Platform, and share deployment insights to inform the roadmap.
What they ask for
- 5-6+ 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 methods to measure and improve AI performance.
- 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
$220K – $300K USD base salary
AI focus
Build and deploy enterprise AI agents; design evaluations and systematically improve agent performance.
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