Raydar
Forward Deployed Engineer
$200K–$300K
New York, New York · Full-time · Posted Aug 14, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years of full-stack product-engineering experience.
- Visa sponsorship
- Visa sponsorship and transfers, including OPT, H-1B, and TN, may be considered.
About the job
Embed with acquired engineering firms to discover operational needs and build, deploy, and iterate applied-AI products, turning successful workflows into reusable platform capabilities.
What you'll do
- Own customer discovery through production deployment and iteration.
- Build full-stack applied-AI products and lead working sessions with non-technical users.
- Develop operator relationships, make product decisions from user feedback, and mentor junior engineers.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of full-stack product-engineering experience, including customer-facing or forward-deployed ownership.
- Ability to own discovery, build, deployment, and iteration end to end with real users.
- Production experience with LLMs, RAG, agent frameworks, document parsing, or adjacent applied-AI systems.
- Excellent English communication and willingness to travel Monday through Thursday, two to three weeks per month, during the first 100 days after an acquisition.
Nice to have
- Experience as a founder, founding engineer, early engineer at a Seed-to-Series-C startup, or an FDE.
Pay
$200K-$300K USD base salary
Tools
LLMs, RAG
AI focus
Build production applied-AI products, including systems involving LLMs, RAG, agent frameworks, or document parsing.
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