Senior Forward Deployed Engineer

Responsibilities

• Embed with customers to understand their businesses and identify where AI can create meaningful value.
• Turn ambiguous business problems into product direction and technical plans.
• Choose architectures and make build-versus-buy decisions.
• Build and ship complete production systems rather than isolated components.
• Own workstreams, technical decisions, client-facing communication, scope, and delivery outcomes.
• Measure production performance and continuously improve systems after launch.
• Structure work for coding agents, engineer durable context, evaluate outputs, and determine where deterministic software and human judgment remain necessary.
• Create reusable agent systems, evaluations, and tools that compound across engagements.

Requirements

• Shipped production software that real users depended on and remained accountable for after launch.
• Built something real with LLMs and can explain how it was made reliable.
• Can become useful in an unfamiliar domain within days.
• Can explain technical decisions clearly to CEOs and engineers.
• Already works with coding agents and has informed opinions about their appropriate use.
• Must be comfortable with an intense, fast-paced environment and direct customer engagement.

Benefits

• Work together in Manhattan five days a week.
• Base salary, quarterly bonus, and equity are provided, with specific compensation details shared in the offer.
• Fast, six-step interview process with practical technical and systems-design assessments.