Laurel
Senior/Staff Forward Deployed Engineer
$221K–$275K
San Francisco, CA · Hybrid · Staff · Full-time · Posted Sep 22, 2026
- Experience
- Minimum 4+ years building production software systems.
- Visa sponsorship
- Unable to support visa sponsorship or relocation assistance.
About the job
Build and deploy production-grade AI systems for customer workflows, owning delivery end-to-end and turning field learnings into reusable platform capabilities.
What you'll do
- Work with customers to understand workflows and implement production solutions across services, integrations, data pipelines, and infrastructure.
- Own deployments from discovery and architecture through rollout, monitoring, and iteration; debug issues across customer environments.
- Partner with Product and Core Engineering to translate customer needs and field learnings into reusable platform capabilities.
What they ask for
- 4+ years of experience building production software systems.
- Experience with APIs, distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and data-intensive applications.
- Experience with LLMs, AI agents, retrieval systems, orchestration frameworks, or applied AI systems in production.
- Ability to independently architect and ship complex systems with minimal oversight.
Nice to have
- Startup experience or early-stage product building.
- Experience deploying AI systems into enterprise environments.
Pay
$221K – $275K (base salary)
Tools
TypeScript, APIs, data pipelines, cloud infrastructure, LLMs, AI agents, retrieval systems, orchestration frameworks
AI focus
Design, build, deploy, and operationalize AI-powered systems in production customer environments, including work with LLMs and applied AI systems.
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