Forward Deployed Engineer

Infinitus

$120K — $150K *
Healthcare
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 8+ years in a technical, customer-facing role such as Forward Deployed Engineer or similar
  • Production experience with LLMs, including prompt engineering and deployment at scale
  • Proficient in Python and another language (e.g., Typescript, Java)
  • Ability to navigate ambiguity in complex organizations
  • Strong collaboration skills and integrity in balancing priorities
  • Passion for advancing safe AI systems through technical innovations
  • Strong communication skills for engaging diverse stakeholders

Responsibilities

  • Build production applications using the Studio and Lens platform within customer systems
  • Deliver technical artifacts like MCP servers and workflows for production
  • Provide high-level deployment support for products in enterprise environments
  • Identify and document repeatable deployment patterns and share insights with teams
  • Maintain up-to-date knowledge of LLM capabilities and AI product stacks
  • Define best practices for AI adoption and guide customer implementation
  • Foster long-term customer relationships and identify new AI deployment opportunities
  • Champion Infinitus's mission in the field

Benefits

  • Hybrid work option with in-office days and catered lunches (Bay Area positions only)
  • Competitive salary, equity options, and 401(k) plan
  • Wellness stipend and comprehensive benefits (medical, dental, vision)
  • Generous PTO and parental leave policies
  • Collaborative culture with bi-annual offsite events
Full Job Description
Your Role

As a member of the Applied AI team at Infinitus, you will be a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) who embeds directly with our most strategic customers to drive transformational AI adoption. You will collaborate closely with customer teams to ship advanced AI applications that solve real world business problems. Our FDEs engage with customers to accelerate the adoption of existing products and create new applications built on our platform.

Working closely with our Product, and Engineering teams, you'll combine engineering expertise, an understanding of frontier AI applications, and customer-facing skills to understand customer workflows and develop innovative solutions that address complex business challenges while maintaining our high standards for safety and reliability.

This is an opportunity to be one of our founding FDEs who helps to shape our forward-deployed motion. We expect our FDEs to operate autonomously, thrive under ambiguity, and represent Infinitus at the highest level in customer environments. This is a significant responsibility: you'll play a key role in championing our mission in the enterprise.

Your Impact
  • Work within customer systems to build production applications with our Studio and Lens platform ensuring that these products meet customer requirements.
  • Deliver technical artifacts for customers like MCP servers, sub-agents, and workflows etc that will be used in production workflows.
  • Provide white glove deployment support for Infinitus products in enterprise environments.
  • Identify and codify repeatable deployment patterns and contribute insights back to our
    Product and Engineering teams.
  • Maintain strong knowledge of the latest developments in LLM capabilities, implementation patterns, and AI product development stacks.
  • Define agentic best practices and guide customers through AI adoption.
  • Build long term relationships with customers and proactively identify new opportunities for AI deployment throughout the lifecycle of an engagement.
  • Be a champion for Infinitus's mission in the field.

Your Skillset
  • 8+ years of experience in a technical, customer facing role such as Forward Deployed Engineer, or as a Software Engineer with consulting experience. Former technical founders are also encouraged to apply.
  • Production experience with LLMs including advanced prompt engineering, agent development, evaluation frameworks, and deployment at scale.
  • Strong programming skills with proficiency in Python (and ideally in one or more additional languages like Typescript, Java, etc) and experience shipping production applications
  • High agency with an ability to navigate ambiguity present in complex organizations.
  • High cooperation mindset for cross-organizational collaboration, balancing competing priorities with integrity.
  • Passion for advancing safe, beneficial AI systems through creative technical applications.
  • Strong communication skills to conduct discovery with customers and to convey technical concepts to diverse stakeholders while maintaining a low ego and collaborative approach.


Nice-to-Have's
  • A background in healthcare/life sciences, or another enterprise vertical
  • Experience with AI deployment patterns
  • Experience working as an FDE or in a professional services context

Why You'll Love It Here

Please Note: the following benefits are for salaried employees
  • Hybrid work (SF office Mon/Tues/Thurs) + catered lunches (Bay Area Positions only)
  • Competitive salary, equity, and 401(k)
  • Wellness stipend & great benefits (medical, dental, vision)
  • Generous PTO & parental leave
  • Bi-annual offsites & a collaborative, mission-driven culture

What to Expect in the Interview Process
  • Apply & meet our recruiting team
  • Virtual interviews to showcase your skills
  • Final onsite loop to meet the team and get to know us better
  • Chat with our CEO

Curious to Learn More?
  • Read our Blog to hear from Infinauts about what we're building
  • Discover how our company values (CODES) guide us
  • Follow our CEO, Ankit Jain, for industry updates

We're building AI agents that tackle healthcare's toughest problems and open new possibilities. Ready to join us? Let's talk!

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