Forward Deployed Engineer

Applied Compute

$120K — $160K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Strong software engineering fundamentals, capable of quickly building polished applications.
  • Experience in developing full-stack applications or data analysis tools.
  • Ability to leverage large-scale data and LLMs for business problem-solving.
  • Proficient in navigating ambiguous and fast-changing environments with high autonomy.

Responsibilities

  • Deploy and integrate the platform within customer environments end-to-end.
  • Construct simulations, data capture pipelines, and tools for model training.
  • Develop applications and tools to enhance customer engagement speed.
  • Design and orchestrate customer-specific environments for training and deployment.
  • Collaborate with applied researchers to ensure data flows are production-ready.
  • Identify engineering requirements from customer interactions to improve the core platform.

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation and equity.
  • Generous health benefits.
  • Unlimited PTO.
  • Paid parental leave.
  • Daily lunches and dinners.
  • Transportation and relocation support.
  • Retirement plans.
Full Job Description
The role

As a forward deployed engineer, you'll work directly with customers to deploy and integrate our platform, building the infrastructure and tooling that turns research into production systems. You'll own customer engagements end-to-end. This includes architecting environments, building large-scale data pipelines, creating evaluation frameworks for model training, and ensuring our platform delivers value at scale.

What you'll do
  • Deploy and integrate our platform within customer environments end-to-end
  • Build environment simulations, data capture pipelines, and tooling for model training and evaluation
  • Create applications and tooling to accelerate customer engagements
  • Mock out and orchestrate customer-specific environments for model training and deployment
  • Work with applied researchers to ensure training environments and data flows are production-ready
  • Surface engineering requirements from customer engagements and contribute them back to the core platform

What we're looking for
  • Strong software engineering fundamentals with the ability to build polished, functional applications quickly
  • Experience building full-stack applications, data analysis tooling, or developer-facing products
  • Ability to use large scale data and LLMs to solve valuable business problems
  • Strong problem-solving skills in ambiguous, fast-changing environments with high autonomy

Strong candidates also have
  • Background working with LLMs or ML systems in production
  • Previous experience as a founder or early engineer at a zero-to-one company
  • Demonstrated engineering creativity through side projects, open source contributions, or shipped products


Benefits & Logistics

This role is based in San Francisco. We work from our office in the Mission. We offer:
  • Competitive compensation and equity
  • Generous health benefits
  • Unlimited PTO
  • Paid parental leave
  • Daily lunches and dinners
  • Transportation and relocation support
  • Retirement plans

We sponsor visas. While we can't guarantee success for every candidate or role, if you're the right fit, we're committed to working through the process with you. We encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification.

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