Forward Deployed Engineer – AI Model Routing Startup

You fix things inside customer environments and explain them so anyone understands. Deploy enterprise AI agents for real, around the world.

A seed-stage AI startup in San Francisco helps companies control their own AI with a model router across hundreds of models, which can run anywhere, even in a customer's own cloud, plus AI agents that carry out real business tasks. These are real deployments, not demos, for around 100 customers worldwide, and engineers regularly go on site with customers abroad.

Your time is split roughly half and half between customer deployments and core product engineering.

They're hiring 2 forward deployed engineers.

What you'll own

• Customer deployments end to end, often on site
• Troubleshooting inside customer environments, and explaining it to non-technical stakeholders
• Contributions to the core product
• Bringing what you learn at customers back into the platform

Must-haves

• You've worked at a fast-growing, investor-backed startup (a famous employer without real startup ownership won't fit)
• You've deployed and troubleshot software directly in customer environments and want to keep doing it
• Solid engineering fundamentals; you know what's going on underneath code that AI writes for you
• 1+ year of experience
• Working from the San Francisco office at least five days a week, 9-9-6, and willing to travel abroad for longer customer stays

Bonus points

• Work at an AI-native startup
• Founder experience or a deep area of expertise
• Real contributions to a core product

What's in it for you

• $180k–$300k base + 0.1–0.5% equity
• A small team where you see the impact of your work at real customers
• A company apartment and relocation support
• Visa sponsorship available

Good to know

• Full-time, on-site in San Francisco (9-9-6), plus trips abroad

Process: intro call with company leadership technical interview technical exercise 3–4 hour session on site references* offer

When you apply, please include

• Your CV (PDF), your LinkedIn URL, and GitHub if you have one
• A customer deployment you owned: what broke, how you fixed it, and how you explained it
• Your current location, and confirmation that on-site San Francisco plus travel works for you
• Your visa or citizenship status
• Your base salary expectation, your notice period, and any other interview processes you're in

Does this sound like you? Apply now. If you're a match, we'll be in touch within 3 working days.

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