Member of Technical Staff - Forward Deployed Engineer

Halluminate, Inc

$200K — $275K *
Enterprise Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 2+ years experience in consulting or forward-deployed engineering roles with large enterprises
  • Strong engineering skills and comfort in customer interactions
  • Proven track record of creating prototypes and delivering new solutions under ambiguity
  • Ability to translate customer needs into clear technical requirements
  • Agility in quickly iterating and responding to project changes
  • Experience building evaluation environments for AI agents

Responsibilities

  • Engage with frontier AI labs to gather and clarify client requirements
  • Convert customer requests into actionable technical specifications
  • Prototype, ship, and iterate on tailored environments before broader platform integration
  • Utilize and enhance internal tools instead of developing new ones from scratch
  • Collaborate with SPL project pods to troubleshoot and ensure seamless project delivery
  • Provide feedback on solutions to help build reusable capabilities
  • Establish and maintain technical credibility in customer engagements

Benefits

  • Fully covered medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • $10k+ relocation stipend for moving to San Francisco
  • 401(k) plan with up to 4% employer matching contribution
  • Free meals (breakfast, lunch, dinner) while on duty
  • Complimentary gym membership for health and wellness
  • Free transportation options including Ubers and Waymo rides to the office
  • Visa sponsorship available, including H-1B sponsorship
Full Job Description
The role

Base: $200-275k • Equity: 0.15-0.30% • Location: San Francisco, 5 days in office

Our FDEs will interface directly with our customers at AI Labs and Enterprises. You will sit in the customer research meetings, understand the intent behind the requests, and create software that drives forward $xMM projects. The work is a mix of client facing, 0 to 1, rapid prototyping, and product scaling with core platform teams. Your engineering will directly support revenue creation and frontier intelligence scaling.

Responsibilities
  • Work directly with frontier AI labs and enterprise customers to understand requirements and what they need from an RL environment
  • Translate customer requirements into concrete technical specs our platform and project pods can build against.
  • Build 01 - prototype, ship, and iterate on customer-specific environments and tooling before any of it becomes a platform feature.
  • Use and extend our internal platforms and dev tooling rather than rebuilding them.
  • Embed with SPL project pods to unblock delivery: integration, technical debugging, and the last-mile problems that decide whether a project lands.
  • Feed patterns back to the platform team so one-off solutions become reusable capability.
  • Own technical credibility in customer conversations, from scoping through delivery.


You should have
  • 2+ years of experience in consulting or forward-deployed engineering roles for large enterprises with custom software, systems, and requirements
  • Strong engineering ability paired with genuine comfort interacting directly in front of customers
  • A track record of 01 work: shipping something that did not exist, under ambiguity, without waiting for a spec.
  • The ability to translate fuzzy customer language into technical requirements, and technical constraints back into plain terms.
  • Startup speed: iterate quick, ask quick, respond quick, make mistakes quick.
  • Experience building evals, environments, and benchmarks for AI Agents


Nice to have
  • Financial services domain exposure (investment banking, private equity, hedge funds).
  • Former founders or experience at early-stage startups.


What we offer
  • Healthcare - Fully covered medical, dental, and vision for you. Subsidized for dependents.
  • Relocation - $10k+ relocation stipend to help you get to San Francisco.
  • 401(k) - Up to 4% employer match.
  • Food - Free breakfast, lunch, and dinner while working.
  • Health - Free gym membership.
  • Transportation - Free Ubers and Waymo rides to and from the office.
  • Visa sponsorship - We sponsor visas, including H-1B.

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