Fouding Forward Deployed Engineer - US

H Company

$110K — $130K *
Enterprise Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 3+ years of experience in AI and software engineering, ideally in fast-paced environments.
  • Strong proficiency in Python and familiarity with Typescript.
  • Experience with AI/ML systems, especially integrating LLMs or agentic workflows into products.
  • Familiarity with backend (FastAPI, Next.js) and frontend (React) frameworks.
  • Proven ability to build and deploy production systems, APIs, and data pipelines.

Responsibilities

  • Identify and prioritize customer's multi-step tasks for automation.
  • Integrate customer systems with databases, APIs, and internal tools.
  • Iterate rapidly in the field to refine product fit through feedback.
  • Architect and maintain scalable production-grade services.
  • Collaborate with teams to align product roadmap with field findings.

Benefits

  • Join an innovative AI startup on the cutting edge of technology.
  • Collaborate within a fun, multicultural team of experts.
  • Work in a high-trust, impactful environment with autonomy.
Full Job Description
FOUNDING FORWARD DEPLOYED ENGINEER

What we're looking for:
• Individuals with impressive achievements and great technical skills, highly proficient in Python .
• Around 3 years of experience in AI with the ability to act autonomously and demonstrate real curiosity for AI.
• Customer-facing experience and comfortable working alongside a customer.
• Excellent communication skills.

About the Team:

The Forward Deployed Team is committed to ensuring the successful implementation of our Agents to help our customer automate and optimize tasks, and allow them to focus on what really matters. The team is also responsible to shape the future vision of our products by distilling learnings from the field into the H platform.

That platform empowers a wide range of professionals and businesses to safely, easily and autonomously deploy agents at scale for a broad range of tasks: from ensuring websites behave as expected to automating repeated tasks.

Key Responsibilities:

Understand and identify customer's most important and impactful multi-step task to automate

Seamlessly integrate with customer systems, including but not limited to databases, third-party APIs, and internal tools, etc.

Rapidly iterate in the field with tight feedback loops to continuously improve product fit and drive end-to-end solution delivery

Architect, build, and maintain production-grade services that scale with usage and complexity

Collaborate closely with product, research, and engineering teams to shape the roadmap and align on priorities based on findings in the field

Requirements:

3+ years of professional AI + software engineering experience, ideally in fast-paced environments (e.g., startups, consulting, or product teams), or otherwise proven technical acumen through projects and past experiences

Experience working with AI/ML systems, especially integrating LLMs or other agentic workflows into real products

Heavy fluency in Python and familiarity with Typescript

Familiarity with backend (FastAPI, Next.js...) and frontend (React...) frameworks and a good sense of UI/UX tradeoffs

Experience building and deploying production systems: APIs, services, infrastructure, and/or data pipelines

Proficiency in integrating third-party APIs, databases, and external systems in a secure and reliable way

Strong problem-solving skills and ability to thrive in ambiguous, customer-facing environments

Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal

Bias for action: able to ship quickly, iterate fast, and own the full lifecycle of solutions

Willingness to travel for on-site deployments or customer engagements

Location:

H's teams are distributed throughout Paris, France, London, UK, and the US.

This role can be based either in SF/Bay area-CA, Austin-TX, or NY.

What we offer:

Be part of the founding journey of one of the most exciting AI startups shaping the future of AI and agentic systems.

Collaborate with a fun, dynamic and multicultural team, working alongside world-class AI engineers, researchers, and builders in a high-trust, high-impact environment.

Enjoy a competitive compensation package, including equity.

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