Raydar
Forward Deployed Engineer
$160K–$245K
San Francisco, California · Full-time · Posted Oct 13, 2026
- Experience
- Roughly 1 to 5 years of relevant experience.
- Education
- A technical degree or an equivalent record of shipping and deploying software.
About the job
Deploy AI-driven software for large business clients, integrating it with their systems, evaluating its quality, and managing client relationships from late-stage sales through production and ongoing support.
What you'll do
- Identify process and documentation gaps with end users, then organize information for AI systems.
- Build connectors and retrieval pipelines, and create client-specific evaluation methods to improve model quality.
- Manage client demonstrations, onboarding, expansion, support, and change management; relay feedback to product teams.
What they ask for
- Experience building system connectors and data flows, or retrieval-based AI for business use.
- Technical degree or equivalent record of shipping and deploying software.
- Experience delivering software directly to clients in large, asset-heavy, or regulated sectors, including deploying LLM or retrieval features and creating evaluations.
- Hands-on experience shipping agentic or retrieval-based AI features; willingness to travel domestically about 25% of the time.
Nice to have
- Experience on an early-stage or founding team responsible for deployment or sales.
- Startup founder experience with commercial traction.
Pay
USD 160,000 to 245,000 per year (base salary)
Tools
APIs, webhooks, ETL, LLM
AI focus
Deploy agentic and retrieval-based AI features in client workflows, build retrieval pipelines, and evaluate and improve model quality.
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