Forward Deployed Engineer

About Vapi:We are revolutionizing the way humans interact with technology by making voice the primary interface.Our platform is the most adaptable for deploying voice agents, catering to diverse needs.In just two years, we've onboarded over 600,000 developers, with an influx of 2,000 new developers daily.Experience Vapi's capabilities now!Why This Role Is Crucial:Our Enterprise Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) is growing at an impressive rate of ~5x year-over-year, with prestigious clients such as NYLife and Intuit.We have witnessed rapid deployment and expansion within Enterprises, and we need a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) to accelerate these efforts.Your Responsibilities:30 Days: You'll successfully deploy a significant enterprise solution on-site.60 Days: You will identify additional use cases and applications within the team.90 Days: You will develop products that simplify future deployments.Who You Are:You have experience working in a technical role at an early-stage startup.You have served as an FDE at a company we respect.Bonus: You have entrepreneurial experience from building your own startup.Why Join Vapi:Make a Generational Impact: Help create the human interface for businesses worldwide.Ownership Culture: Around 70% of our team members are former founders.Supportive Team: Work with a kind and approachable team led by our Canadian founders, Jordan and Nikhil.Top-tier Investors: Backed by Y Combinator, KP Seed, and Bessemer Series A.What We Provide:Equity Ownership: Competitive salary with substantial equity options.Health Benefits: Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage.Camaraderie: We enjoy team bonding and organize quarterly off-site events.Flexible Time Off: Take the time you need for a healthy work-life balance.

Note: This position does not offer visa sponsorship.Krew is dedicated to revolutionizing credit servicing through cutting-edge AI-driven solutions. Our team is supported by notable investors such as Long Journey Ventures, including Arielle Zuckerberg and Pascal Levy-Garboua, along with strategic angels like Ryan Hoover (Founder, Product Hunt), Charlie Songhurst (Meta Board Member), and Michael Jones (Former Chair, Huntington Bank Ventures).Our talented workforce consists of experts from esteemed organizations such as Figure Robotics, Optiver, Bain, and the United Nations, along with researchers from UChicago and Oxford. Together, we’re helping over 100,000 consumers achieve financial wellness. Our ambitious aim is to resolve more than $1 trillion in outstanding consumer delinquencies globally, employing a compassionate and human-focused approach to financial well-being.

The RoleJoin us as a pioneering Forward Deployed Engineer at rowspace, where you'll operate at the nexus of advanced technical expertise and impactful customer engagement. In this role, you will manage the technical aspects of customer relationships following sales, integrate seamlessly into their workflows, and design production-ready solutions tailored to their data, driving significant, quantifiable outcomes.Gain firsthand insights into the operational intricacies of investors—their complex data infrastructures, internal systems, and unique challenges. Your observations will inform platform enhancements that elevate the experience for all clients. Collaborate closely with our founders and engineering team, where your contributions will have a substantial impact as we iterate rapidly and reshape the workflows of the world’s most sophisticated investors.What You'll DoEngage directly with customers—create customized integrations and data pipelines, hold regular meetings to grasp their evolving requirements, and design and implement new workflows from inception to deployment.Analyze and optimize—troubleshoot issues related to data retrieval quality, LLM performance, and data ingestion in live production settings.Collaborate with AI Deployment Managers to enhance adoption and explore new use cases.Represent the voice of the customer—identify platform gaps and trends proactively, working alongside engineering and product teams to prioritize essential features, often implementing fixes yourself.Leverage your solutions for broader impact—transform tailored builds into scalable integrations, and develop playbooks that facilitate future customer engagements.What You Bring2–5+ years of experience as a software engineer or in a customer-facing technical role (e.g., FDE, solutions engineer/architect, implementation engineer), preferably in a company delivering direct solutions to clients.Solid technical background—proficient in Python and SQL, capable of navigating complex datasets and real-world data challenges (PDFs, Excel files, inconsistent formats).Familiarity with AI/ML concepts—understanding of RAG, embeddings, LLMs, and retrieval systems. You won't train models but will adeptly debug and optimize them.Customer-centric and results-driven—you are genuinely interested in understanding customers' systems, measuring success by the impact on their operations rather than your output.Self-starter with a builder's mentality—when challenges arise on-site with customers, you take the initiative to resolve them. You enjoy crafting solutions and thrive on figuring out problems independently.

About HandshakeHandshake serves as the premier career network tailored for the AI-driven economy, connecting 20 million knowledge workers, 1,600 educational institutions, and 1 million employers, including all of the Fortune 50. Our platform is trusted for career exploration, recruitment, and skills enhancement, catering to freelance AI training opportunities, internships, and full-time roles. This distinctive offering has fueled exceptional growth, with a projected tripling of our ARR by 2025.Why consider joining Handshake now:Influence the trajectory of careers in the AI sector globally, making a tangible impact for your community and network.Collaborate closely with leading AI laboratories, Fortune 500 companies, and top-tier educational institutions.Become part of a team comprising leaders from Scale AI, Meta, xAI, Notion, Coinbase, and Palantir, among others.Help build a rapidly expanding business with significant revenue potential.Role OverviewIn the position of Staff Forward Deployed Engineer, you will be pivotal in crafting and executing the technical strategy for how Handshake provides engineered solutions to our key clients, including premier AI labs. You will act as a trusted technical advisor to both our clients and internal leadership, taking ownership of the vision for scaling our forward-deployed engineering function while being actively involved in addressing our most complex deployment challenges. Your contributions will have a direct impact on product direction, influence platform architecture, and set the technical standards for the entire forward-deployed engineering team.This role presents a unique chance to blend organization-wide technical influence with significant customer impact, establishing the framework for the development, delivery, and scaling of Handshake's most essential partnerships.Location: San Francisco, CA | 5 days/week in-officeDefine the technical strategy and architectural vision for forward-deployed engineering, ensuring that solutions are scalable, repeatable, and aligned with Handshake's platform roadmap.Act as the senior technical point of contact for our most complex and high-value client engagements, translating strategic business needs into engineering direction.Foster cross-functional collaboration among forward-deployed engineering, product, platform, and customer-facing teams to ensure deployed solutions enhance and inform the core product.Design and implement production-grade systems for innovative customer challenges.

Join Cloudflare as a Forward Deployed Engineer, where you will play a pivotal role in bridging technical solutions with customer needs. In this dynamic position, you will work closely with clients to implement and optimize our network services, ensuring they are effectively integrated into their infrastructure. Your expertise will not only help clients achieve their goals but also contribute to the development of innovative solutions that enhance our offerings.The ideal candidate will possess strong problem-solving abilities and have a passion for technology and customer success. If you thrive in a collaborative environment and are eager to make a significant impact in the tech industry, we want to hear from you!

Giga recently secured $61 million in Series A funding and is already working with notable clients, including DoorDash. We are on a mission to revolutionize customer experience by developing real-time AI agents capable of understanding emotions, resolving issues swiftly, and scaling for the world's largest enterprises.This is a pivotal moment for our company. Although we have achieved significant success, our ambitions are even greater. We aim to establish ourselves as the leading AI platform for enterprise automation, driven by our voice superintelligence. To realize this vision, we are looking for exceptional engineers to join our team.The impact of your work will touch millions of people daily, providing our engineers with the autonomy to make a real difference. This opportunity is unique due to our innovative founders, proven commercial success, and clear trajectory toward becoming a generational company.Learn more about us:Voice AI startup Giga raises $61M Series ADoorDash and Giga PartnershipGiga develops AI agents that are trusted by the largest B2C enterprises globally. Industry leaders such as DoorDash rely on Giga for their most intricate support and operational workflows across voice, chat, and email. If this sounds appealing to you, we encourage you to apply!About the RoleWe are looking for a Forward Deployed Engineer to join our San Francisco team. In this role, you will function as the technical liaison and project lead between Giga and our clients, crafting and deploying advanced AI-driven solutions at scale.What You’ll DoLead customer engagements from start to finish: conduct discovery calls & demonstrations, align business and technical stakeholders on objectives, oversee the deployment and upkeep of world-class agents, and serve as the primary point of contact who facilitates meetings and addresses obstacles.Design & deploy production-ready AI agents: work with large datasets, write backend code, build integrations, and deploy to cloud infrastructure.Manage the entire agent development lifecycle: rapidly prototype, set up CI/CD pipelines, monitor live usage, iterate towards objectives, and document best practices to expedite future projects.Mentorship: Lead and mentor junior engineers on agent development best practices.

Overview: At Sphinx, we are pioneering the automation of compliance processes for banks and fintech companies through advanced AI agents that function like human analysts in a browser environment. As demand accelerates, our deployment team is expanding to cater to the needs of significant financial institutions across the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Latin America. If you thrive in delivering functional systems in dynamic environments, swiftly resolving complex scenarios, and collaborating closely with clients, we want to hear from you.Excited to jump ahead? Participate in our AI-proof coding challenge to bypass the queue. If successful, we will connect with you directly for an interview with our CTO. Winning the challenge earns you $10,000, no questions asked.Company BackgroundCompliance is a critical process ensuring that financial transactions are secure and legitimate. At Sphinx, we develop AI-driven analysts that seamlessly integrate with browsers, APIs, and internal systems to automate Anti-Money Laundering (AML), Know Your Customer (KYC), Know Your Business (KYB), and transaction monitoring from end to end.Our AI agents are already responsible for millions of compliance decisions across the banking, fintech, and cryptocurrency sectors. As we scale rapidly, each new deployment challenges the boundaries of what AI can achieve in live production environments.Why You Should Join SphinxExpand into a significant market: The financial sector invests around $50 billion annually on hiring analysts for manual reporting. This industry has seen limited innovation, and our competitors frequently receive complaints from customers. It's not glamorous work, but you will be building the intelligence infrastructure that safeguards the entire financial ecosystem.Consistent success: We have successfully won every Request for Proposal (RFP) we have participated in, outperforming our competitors.Join a dynamic team: Our co-founders have a proven track record of selling an AI company and developing machine learning systems that scaled to millions of users, securing contracts with major banks. Our San Francisco team comprises PhD holders, industry veterans, and elite coders.Innovative technology: Our approach involves developing groundbreaking technology, which serves as our competitive advantage.Focus on customers, not investors: We prioritize building customer relationships over chasing investors. Our solutions have significantly reduced manual workloads by 90% and cut costs by fourfold for leading banks and fintechs worldwide.Technical Challenges Await

As a Forward Deployed Architect at endeavorai, you will play a pivotal role in designing and implementing cutting-edge solutions for our clients. Your expertise will ensure that our technology aligns seamlessly with their business needs, driving innovation and efficiency.

Join the innovative team at Mercor as a Forward Deployed Engineer, where you will play a crucial role in delivering cutting-edge solutions to our clients. In this dynamic position, you will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to deploy and optimize our products in real-world environments.

ABOUT THE ROLE:As a Forward Deployed Strategist at Varick, you will act as our on-the-ground operator within enterprise client teams. Your mission is to deeply understand their workflows, identify inefficiencies, and advocate for automation solutions. Collaborating closely with our engineers, you will drive the implementation of these solutions.This role requires a significant on-site presence where you will engage with department leaders, analyze workflows, track data across various enterprise systems, and deliver insights to executive teams. You will blend the intricacies of operational details with high-level strategic discussions. Ideal candidates will have prior experience in consulting, solutions engineering, or technical program management and are eager to build tangible solutions rather than merely provide advice.

Join Interface as a Forward Deployed Engineer! We are on the lookout for innovative generalist engineers (machine learning, data, full-stack) who are not afraid to push boundaries and have a strong drive to succeed. If you thrive in a fast-paced environment and believe in building quickly to achieve results, we want you on our team!Who You Are:You make quick, strategic decisions that can be reversed easily.You proactively identify and resolve issues before they are brought to your attention.You are proficient with our technology stack, including TSX, Python, Docker, LLMs, YOLO, Tesseract, PostgreSQL, AWS, and React Native.You have a track record of building impactful products that are actively used.You excel in dynamic and chaotic environments.Your Responsibilities:Engage with users and customers to understand their experiences, challenges, and needs.Design and architect systems that are utilized daily by large-scale enterprises.Develop autonomous data pipelines that efficiently audit vast amounts of documents.Manage scalable infrastructure to support our growing needs.Deliver solutions rapidly, as we believe that perfectionism can impede progress.Real Talk:Collaborate closely with the founding team and our customers.Prioritize user needs over flashy features and trends.Expect to work six days a week at our office.Be ready for an intense working environment in San Francisco, known for its excellent weather and vibrant tech ecosystem.Additional Information:Remote applications are welcomed from candidates around the globe.We offer competitive salaries, substantial equity, and the opportunity to influence early-stage decisions.Receive a $3,000 bonus for successful referrals!About Interface: We are the leaders in autonomous safety solutions for the industrial sector. We are developing an advanced AI-powered auditing platform that identifies and rectifies errors in various industrial documents, including regulatory filings and CAD files. Join us at the forefront of innovation where LLMs, computer vision, and data pipelines converge to redefine compliance and safety standards.

OverviewPulse is at the forefront of addressing a significant challenge in data infrastructure: extracting precise, structured information from intricate documents at scale. Our innovative approach to document understanding merges intelligent schema mapping with advanced extraction models, where traditional OCR and parsing tools often fall short.Based in San Francisco, we are a dynamic, rapidly expanding team of engineers dedicated to empowering Fortune 100 companies, YC startups, public investment firms, and growth-stage businesses. With the backing of top-tier investors, we are on an exciting growth trajectory.Our technology stands out due to its multi-stage architecture, which includes:Specialized models for layout understanding and component detectionLow-latency OCR models tailored for precise extractionAdvanced algorithms for reading order in complex structuresProprietary recognition and parsing of table structuresFine-tuned vision-language models for interpreting charts, tables, and figuresIf you are passionate about the intersection of computer vision, NLP, and data infrastructure, your contributions at Pulse will have a direct impact on our customers and help shape the future of document intelligence.

ABOUT BASETENAt Baseten, we empower revolutionary AI companies, including Cursor, Notion, OpenEvidence, Abridge, Clay, Gamma, and Writer, to achieve mission-critical inference. By integrating cutting-edge AI research, adaptable infrastructure, and user-friendly developer tools, we enable organizations at the forefront of AI to seamlessly deploy advanced models into production. Our rapid growth is exemplified by our recent $300M Series E funding, supported by esteemed investors such as BOND, IVP, Spark Capital, Greylock, and Conviction. Join us in creating the essential platform that engineers rely on to launch AI products successfully.THE ROLEAs a Forward Deployed Engineer at Baseten, you will collaborate closely with clients to design, develop, and implement high-scale production AI applications utilizing our platform. You will guide customers through their journey from initial concept to full production deployment, expertly translating vague business objectives into dependable, observable services that meet clear standards for quality, latency, and cost.This position is ideal for innovative engineers eager to gain insights into how modern enterprises adopt AI at scale, and who thrive in environments that blend product development, software engineering, performance optimization, and direct customer engagement.Please note that this is a hands-on engineering role involving coding and software development, complemented by responsibilities in product management, technical customer success, and pre-sales solution engineering.EXAMPLE INITIATIVESExplore these insightful blog posts authored by our Forward Deployed Engineering team: Forward Deployed Engineering on the Frontier of AIThe Fastest, Most Accurate Whisper TranscriptionDeploy Production-Ready Model Servers from Docker ImagesDeploy Custom ComfyUI Workflows as APIs

Why Choose Dealops?In the era of AI, companies are rethinking their pricing, sales, and scaling strategies. The transition towards outcome-based, usage-based, and hybrid pricing models has unveiled a market exceeding $25 billion, creating a demand for innovative solutions in pricing, deal execution, and sales compensation. Founded by former Stripe professionals and supported by investors such as Pear VC, General Catalyst, and executives from OpenAI, Stripe, and Slack, Dealops is at the forefront of this evolution, offering an AI-powered platform designed to enable flexible pricing, streamline workflows, and enhance sales performance.Your RoleAs a Forward Deployment Strategist, your primary goal will be to bridge the gap between user requirements, data insights, and product capabilities, empowering customers to extract tangible value from Dealops. Our modular AI platform has reduced complex technical implementations from months to just weeks. You will be a key driver of this transformation in the industry.This position is in-person at our San Francisco office. You will collaborate closely with customers to shape the next generation of AI products, delve into their pricing and deal workflows, and partner with leaders in RevOps, Finance, and GTM to create and implement scalable solutions.If you have spearheaded impactful, client-focused projects and are eager to influence the future of AI pricing, this is your opportunity to drive change rather than merely suggest it.Complete Ownership – Take full accountability from start to finish, eliminating hand-offs.Scaling Growth – Develop playbooks from the ground up instead of just following existing ones.Customer Engagement – Provide hands-on onboarding, fostering adoption and growth.Strategic Insights – Transform insights into actionable GTM strategies and product initiatives.

Join Palona as a Forward Deployed Engineer and be part of a groundbreaking team that's redefining the landscape of adaptive, multimodal AI systems. In this dynamic role, you will merge engineering expertise with customer engagement and practical operations. Collaborating directly with industry operators, you will play a crucial role in guiding AI agents that learn and adapt in real-time.If you thrive on blending technological innovation with human interaction, relish tackling complex real-world challenges, and seek to make a significant impact in live environments, this is the opportunity for you.ResponsibilitiesAs a Forward Deployed Engineer, you will serve as the vital link between our product, our clients, and the AI agents deployed to the field. Your responsibilities will include:Deep Collaboration: Work closely with operators and clients to gain insights into business operations, identify real-world workflows, and translate these into system functionalities.AI Development: Design, scope, and implement adaptive AI agents that evolve with the customer’s environment, creating dynamic systems that improve through ongoing interaction.Application Integration: Build and integrate robust applications that connect Palona’s AI platform with customer infrastructure.Prototyping and Demos: Develop demonstrations, prototypes, and workflows showcasing how adaptive agents can effectively address operational challenges.Field Testing: Troubleshoot real-world edge cases and transform insights from deployments into actionable product intelligence and enhancements.Performance Assurance: Ensure the reliability, safety, and performance of AI agents in fast-paced, operationally intense settings.Relationship Building: Cultivate long-term partnerships where both you and the AI agents evolve alongside the customer.This role is a unique hybrid of engineering and consulting, designed for individuals who possess a blend of curiosity, ownership, and versatility.

Join Metriport as a Forward Deployed Engineer, where you will play a critical role in deploying our cutting-edge solutions directly to clients. In this dynamic position, you'll collaborate closely with our engineering and product teams to ensure seamless integration of our software in various environments. Your expertise will not only help us enhance our technologies but also empower our clients to achieve their business objectives through effective use of our products.

Join Cloudflare as a Forward Deployed Engineer, where you will play a crucial role in delivering innovative solutions to our clients. This position involves working closely with customers to deploy and integrate our cutting-edge technologies while enhancing their infrastructure and security.You will be part of a dynamic team that thrives on collaboration and creativity, tackling complex challenges and driving impactful results. If you are passionate about technology and enjoy working in a fast-paced environment, this is the opportunity for you!

Join our dynamic team as a Forward Deployed Engineer in the heart of San Francisco! In this role, you will work closely with clients, leveraging cutting-edge technology to deliver innovative solutions tailored to their needs. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, ensuring seamless integration and deployment of our products to drive success for our customers.

About UsAt Workhelix, we are a cutting-edge technology services firm dedicated to optimizing organizations' AI investments.Our expert team and innovative software empower leaders to address three pivotal questions regarding the business impact of AI:What are our most significant opportunities to leverage AI for value creation?Are our current AI initiatives yielding desired results? What is their ROI?How can we expedite and enhance the benefits derived from our AI investments?To provide tailored solutions for our clients, Workhelix draws upon unmatched expertise in economics, AI, and data science. Our pioneering task-scoring methodology identifies top GenAI opportunities, facilitating data-driven deployment strategies. Our ROI monitoring suite utilizes Nobel Prize-winning economics to deliver precise, ongoing insights into the effects of GenAI implementations. We are proudly supported by renowned thinkers in AI and Economics, including Andrew Ng, as well as co-founders Andy McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson.We foster a culture rooted in five fundamental principles. To learn more about our leadership values, please visit our careers page.This is a full-time position available to candidates located in the Greater San Francisco area or those willing to relocate.