Raydar
Forward Deployed Engineer
$165K–$235K
New York, New York · Full-time · Posted Oct 1, 2026
- Experience
- At least 2 years in a customer-facing technical role; leadership opening also seeks proven team-building ability or a convincing trajectory.
About the job
Deploys and stabilizes the client’s platform in business customer environments, with one opening also building and leading the deployment team.
What you'll do
- Lead customer rollouts from technical assessment through go-live and handoff; configure and debug infrastructure in customer environments.
- Create reusable tooling, documentation, and procedures from recurring issues, and share field learnings with product and engineering.
- For the leadership opening, establish and lead the deployment function as it grows.
What they ask for
- At least 2 years in a customer-facing technical role, such as solutions engineering or deployment engineering.
- Hands-on Kubernetes and DevOps experience, including running production clusters yourself.
- Practical experience deploying LLM-based and agent-style applications for larger organizations.
- Based in New York or ready to relocate for in-person work; leadership opening also requires proven ability or a convincing trajectory in building and guiding a technical team.
Nice to have
- Experience putting AI solutions into production in heavily regulated sectors.
- Exposure to client-managed or on-premises environments; networking, monitoring, production incidents, a public cloud provider, or Helm.
Pay
USD 165,000 to 235,000 per year (base salary)
Tools
Kubernetes, DevOps, LLM-based, agent-style applications, Helm
AI focus
Deploy LLM-based and agent-style applications for larger organizations; regulated-sector production AI experience is a plus.
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