Job DescriptionWe're looking for a Forward Deployed Engineering Lead to build 1mind's forward deployed motion from the ground up. This is one of the most important hires we're making right now - the person who fills it will define how our newest products land inside customer environments and will set the technical bar for a function we expect to scale rapidly.
You'll embed directly with customers to deploy 1mind's AI Superhumans into their live web applications - ramping quickly on unfamiliar products, working deep in the DOM and browser rendering layer, and building the automation that makes our agents perform reliably across every surface a buyer touches. You'll own deployments end-to-end: scoping, building, shipping, and iterating alongside customer teams until the product delivers measurable value.
This is a senior, hands-on technical lead role. You'll start as the anchor engineer on our flagship deployment, then expand the motion across our existing customer base - codifying playbooks, shaping the tooling, and laying the foundation for the forward deployed organization we build around you.
Key Responsibilities- Lead end-to-end forward deployments of 1mind's products - from technical scoping and system design through production rollout inside customer web environments.
- Ramp rapidly on unfamiliar web applications, tracing and debugging HTML/DOM and rendering issues across static, server-rendered, and client-rendered architectures.
- Build and maintain robust UI automation using Playwright, Puppeteer, and Chrome DevTools Protocol to drive reliable agent behavior across desktop and mobile, and across Chrome/Chromium, Firefox, Safari/WebKit, and Edge.
- Work hands-on with the AI orchestration layer - prompts, retrieval, and agent configuration - to tune Superhuman behavior for each customer's product and workflows.
- Handle real-world auth and web state - cookies, sessions, tokens, and local/session storage - to make deployments secure and resilient.
- Serve as the senior technical partner to customer engineering teams: run technical discovery, translate business needs into deployment plans, and communicate clearly with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Codify what works into repeatable playbooks, internal tooling, and documentation that make every subsequent deployment faster.
- Feed deployment insights back into the product roadmap, working closely with engineering and product leadership.
QualificationsRequired- Significant hands-on front-end engineering experience building and shipping production web applications - a must for this role.
- Strong JavaScript, HTML, and CSS fundamentals, with deep working knowledge of HTML elements and the accessibility tree (ARIA).
- Deep expertise in the DOM and browser rendering pipelines - static, SSR, and CSR - and comfort debugging rendering issues in the browser console and dev tools.
- Deep production experience with modern front-end frameworks (React, Vue, or Svelte).
- Production experience with UI automation tooling: Playwright, Puppeteer, or Chrome DevTools Protocol.
- Solid grasp of authentication and web state: cookies, sessions, tokens, and local/session storage.
- Working knowledge of AI/LLM systems - prompting, retrieval, and orchestration - and genuine curiosity about deploying agents in production.
- Proven ability to ramp quickly on unfamiliar web applications and operate effectively in ambiguous, fast-moving customer environments.
- Strong customer-facing communication skills; comfortable leading technical conversations with customer engineering teams.
- Based in or willing to relocate to the San Francisco Bay Area.
Preferred- Experience in a forward deployed, solutions engineering, or technical consulting role at a high-growth AI or developer-facing company.
- Experience building browser extensions or working deeply with the Chrome extension ecosystem.
- Cross-platform automation experience spanning desktop and mobile browsers.
- Deeper experience with RAG pipelines, agent frameworks, or AI orchestration layers.
- Experience creating playbooks, tooling, or processes that scaled a technical function beyond yourself.
LocationSan Francisco, CA.
Employment TypeFull-time
