Raydar
Forward Deployed Engineer
$230K–$300K
San Mateo, California · Full-time · Posted Oct 12, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years in a customer-facing technical role.
- Education
- A technical degree, ideally in computer science, or equivalent.
About the job
Leads customer deployments of a software platform from setup through production, designing architectures and translating customer needs into technical plans.
What you'll do
- Lead customer setup, installation, and go-live; support adoption and the customer lifecycle after sale.
- Design secure, scalable workflows across cloud and on-premises environments.
- Coordinate with sales, engineering, research, and product teams, bringing customer feedback into roadmap planning.
What they ask for
- 5+ years in a customer-facing technical role, such as solutions or implementation engineering.
- Background in distributed systems, data platforms, and self-hosted or hybrid infrastructure; experience installing software inside large organizations’ infrastructure.
- Proficiency in Python and AWS; practical machine-learning model training experience and understanding of training stages.
- Technical degree, ideally in computer science, or equivalent; willingness to travel roughly 15%.
Nice to have
- Familiarity with additional cloud platforms, self-hosted infrastructure, or ML tooling.
Pay
USD 230,000 to 300,000 per year (base salary)
Tools
Python, AWS, Kubernetes
AI focus
Practical machine-learning model training and understanding the stages of model training.
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