Forward Deployed Engineer
True Talent Solutions Partners
About the role
About the Role
Join an agent deployment team at an enterprise AI automation company, working directly with customers to turn complex operational workflows into reliable, production-grade systems. This is an engineering-first, customer-facing role with ownership across deployments and opportunities to shape product capabilities.
What You'll Do
Architect and build production systems for customer pilots, translating complex requirements into scalable implementations.
Design, implement, and maintain backend services, APIs, and integrations with external and enterprise systems.
Build secure, reliable integrations with strong observability and long-term maintainability.
Turn customer needs and edge cases into reusable platform capabilities.
Own deployments from initial architecture through launch, scaling, and ongoing optimization.
Collaborate with customers, sales, and engineering teams to bring high-impact solutions into production.
Help establish the team's practices and contribute to product direction.
What We're Looking For
At least 2 years of software engineering experience, ideally in product-focused or customer-facing work.
Experience shipping backend-heavy production systems and building APIs, third-party integrations, or enterprise tools.
Strong coding and system design fundamentals, with a degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics, or physics from a rigorous undergraduate program.
Experience in a startup, small company, or other fast-moving environment, with a record of ownership and working through ambiguity.
Ability to communicate effectively with technical and business stakeholders and execute independently.
Experience with scalable systems, integrations, or workflow automation; exposure to AI, LLMs, agent architectures, or enterprise customer deployments is a plus.
Experience in a high-impact engineering environment is valued.
Compensation & Benefits
Annual salary range: $200,000 to $325,000. Visa sponsorship is not available.
Location
On-site in San Francisco, California.
Responsibilities
- Architect and build production systems for customer pilots.
- Design, implement, and maintain backend services, APIs, and integrations.
- Build secure, reliable, observable, and maintainable integrations.
- Turn customer needs and edge cases into reusable platform capabilities.
- Own deployments from architecture through launch, scaling, and optimization.
- Collaborate with customers, sales, and engineering to deliver production solutions.
- Help establish team practices and contribute to product direction.
Qualifications
- At least 2 years of software engineering experience, ideally in product-focused or customer-facing work.
- Experience shipping backend-heavy production systems and building APIs, third-party integrations, or enterprise tools.
- Strong coding and system design fundamentals.
- Degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics, or physics from a rigorous undergraduate program.
- Experience in a startup, small company, or other fast-moving environment, with ownership and comfort with ambiguity.
- Ability to communicate with technical and business stakeholders and execute independently.
- Experience with scalable systems, integrations, or workflow automation; AI, LLM, agent architecture, or enterprise deployment experience is a plus.