Raydar
Forward Deployed Engineer
$120K–$180K
San Francisco, California · Full-time · Posted Oct 1, 2026
- Experience
- Roughly 0 to 3 years; impressive accomplishments valued over tenure.
About the job
Own enterprise customer relationships from prospecting and deal closure through deployment, while translating field feedback into product priorities and helping build the customer-facing team.
What you'll do
- Run the enterprise sales cycle, including prospecting, qualifying, negotiating, and closing deals.
- Support customer deployments and represent the company in meetings, demos, and events.
- Share customer insights with engineering and help hire, onboard, and eventually lead team members.
What they ask for
- Technical understanding sufficient to engage business buyers and engineers and reason about infrastructure and demos.
- Close familiarity with current AI products, features, and competitors.
- Strong commercial instincts, communication skills, and ability to carry a deal.
- A track record of closing a deal or shipping something meaningful, with some engineering, product, or founder experience.
Nice to have
- Prior founder experience.
- Experience at a forward-deployed-engineering-oriented technology company, in a chief-of-staff role, or in consulting-firm solutions engineering; ambitious hackathon or side projects.
Pay
USD 120,000 to 180,000 per year (base salary)
AI focus
Requires familiarity with current AI products, features, and competitors; no AI development work is specified.
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