Forward Deployed Engineer

Hartleyco — United States · Posted ~2 hours ago

Senior

Skills

AI agents Production software development Infrastructure design System deployment Enterprise customer collaboration Backend engineering Customer communication LLMs

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Summary ✨ AI‑Generated

A forward-deployed engineering role for an AI-focused startup, combining hands-on software development with infrastructure design and customer delivery. You will build AI agents, deploy production systems into enterprise environments, and work directly with stakeholders to solve operational problems.

Highlights

Highly technical customer-facing engineering role combining AI agent development, production software, infrastructure, deployment, and direct collaboration with enterprise stakeholders.

Description

I’m working with a YC startup building AI systems that are being deployed directly into real-world enterprise workflows. They’ve recently raised their Seed round, signed initial customers, and are now looking for a highly technical engineer who wants to operate closer to the business, product, and customer problems rather than sitting in a siloed engineering function. This is not a traditional solutions engineer role. You’ll be: building AI agentswriting production codedesigning infrastructuredeploying systems into customer environmentsworking directly with enterprise stakeholders to solve operational problems The founders are specifically looking for engineers who can both: build at a high technical levelcommunicate clearly with customers The backgrounds they tend to like: early engineers at AI startupsPalantir / FDSE-style profilesstrong backend or product engineers from high-calibre engineering companiesengineers already building with LLMs, agents, or AI-native tooling What makes the role interesting: Very early-stage with real traction alreadySmall, high-agency teamDirect founder exposureReal ownership from day oneAI-native engineering cultureFast-moving environment with very little bureaucracyOpportunity to shape both product and technical direction early Tech stack: PythonNode.js / TypeScriptAPIs + integrationsAI agents / LLM systemscloud infrastructureproduction deployments You’ll likely enjoy this if: you like building quicklyyou enjoy ambiguityyou want your work close to customers/usersyou prefer ownership over processyou’re excited by agentic AI systems rather than traditional SaaS Bay Area onsite preferred.