Forward Deployed Engineer

Role Overview

Join an extremely early-stage AI startup with strong traction, elite founder pedigree, and a massive market opportunity. As a Forward Deployed Engineer, you will operate with massive ownership and directly shape the product, customer experience, and technical direction.

What You Will Do

Build and scale AI-native workflow orchestration systems for enterprise operations teams, develop full-stack product features, build integrations with enterprise systems, and design and implement AI agent workflows.

Why It Might Be a Fit

This role offers exceptional scope and upside for engineers who enjoy building AI-native products, shipping quickly, solving operational problems, and working closely with customers.

Requirements

• 3+ years of full-stack engineering experience OR 2+ years exclusively at VC-backed startups
• Strong product-oriented engineering background with measurable ownership
• Experience shipping consumer, prosumer, or internal-facing products end-to-end
• Strong TypeScript, Node.js, and React engineering skills
• Experience working across both backend systems and frontend applications
• Experience with AI agents, LLM integrations, automation systems, or AI tooling
• Familiarity with prompt engineering, AI workflows, or agentic systems
• Experience integrating enterprise APIs, third-party systems, or operational tooling
• Strong startup execution mentality with ability to move quickly and independently
• Comfortable operating in ambiguous, high-intensity startup environments
• Strong communication and product thinking ability
• Experience owning medium-to-large projects with measurable business impact
• Ability to collaborate directly with customers and product stakeholders
• Strong systems thinking and architectural reasoning skills

Benefits

• Base salary: $200,000 – $300,000
• Equity: 0.2% – 1%
• Highly impactful founding engineering opportunity
• Direct ownership over product and platform architecture
• Opportunity to work closely with experienced startup founders and operators
• Extremely fast-moving startup environment with significant career upside
• Ability to shape the future of AI agents for the physical economy
• Strong customer exposure and product ownership from day one
• Small, talent-dense engineering team with rapid iteration cycles