Raydar
Forward Deployed Engineer
$150K–$225K
San Francisco, California · Full-time · Posted Oct 6, 2026
- Experience
- At least 2 years in a hybrid technical and customer-facing role.
About the job
Leads client-facing implementations of AI software, building integrations and agents while relaying production learnings to the product team.
What you'll do
- Run customer rollouts from scoping through launch and serve as the main technical contact for senior stakeholders.
- Design and build AI agents, product capabilities, and customer-system integrations.
- Partner with platform engineers and document implementation lessons in internal playbooks.
What they ask for
- At least 2 years in a hybrid technical and customer-facing role, such as forward-deployed engineering, agent engineering, growth engineering, or founding engineer or founder work.
- Hands-on engineering ability with Python and cloud-based, API-driven systems.
- Working knowledge of large language models, prompting, and agent-based AI approaches; habit of using AI coding assistants.
- Located in the San Francisco area or willing to relocate there to work on-site.
Nice to have
- Previous forward-deployed engineering experience at a leading AI company.
- Experience in agent engineering, growth engineering, founding engineering, backend engineering paired with solutions engineering, competitive programming, or research conferences.
Pay
USD 150,000 to 225,000 per year (base salary)
Tools
Python
AI focus
Implements AI-driven software for clients and designs AI agents, including prompt design, model integration, and prototyping with AI coding assistants.
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