Raydar
Forward Deployed Engineer
$180K–$230K
San Francisco, California · Full-time · Posted Oct 17, 2026
- Education
- For junior candidates, a degree from a strong computer science program.
About the job
Deploy and configure AI-driven software for business customers, own rollouts from scoping through delivery, and relay customer learnings to improve the platform.
What you'll do
- Understand customer processes and identify automation opportunities; deploy and integrate AI agents in customer systems.
- Build evaluation suites with customer data, iterate to quality targets, and debug production deployments.
- Support sales and account expansion as a technical partner, while feeding field insights into product improvements.
What they ask for
- Hands-on experience building and deploying LLM-based agents with customers, including prompts, evaluations, and long-running workflows.
- Customer-facing technical deployment or implementation experience, owning rollouts.
- Strong Python skills with FastAPI for backend work and React for frontend work.
- Experience at a high-growth startup in an early-stage, zero-to-one setting; Bay Area residence or readiness to relocate for hybrid work. For junior candidates, a degree from a strong computer science program.
Nice to have
- Career path from a large technology employer into startups.
- Founder or founding engineer experience at an early-stage company.
Pay
USD 180,000 to 230,000 per year (base salary)
Tools
LLM-based agents, Python, FastAPI, React
AI focus
Deploy and configure AI agents, build evaluations using real customer data, and debug their behavior in production.
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