Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) - AI Infrastructure Deployment
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Own the technical work that turns an enterprise evaluation into a successful production deployment.
As a Forward Deployed Engineer, you’ll build applications, run evaluations, troubleshoot integrations, and stay close to customer results. You’ll partner with sales during technical evaluations, then own technical success for 1-3 enterprise accounts, helping customers resolve issues, deepen adoption, and expand into additional use cases.
This is a founding role within our client’s developing FDE function. You’ll work directly with founders, product, and engineering to shape the platform and establish how future deployments are delivered.
The role combines substantial engineering work with customer relationships and deployment responsibility. Both backend-leaning engineers and customer-facing FDEs are welcome, but independent coding and production deployment ownership are essential. This position requires full-time, in-person work in San Francisco, five days per week.
What You'll Do
- Turn customer requirements into working applications and integrations
- Partner with AEs and SEs on evaluations, custom demos, and competitive benchmarking
- Build custom applications, agents, evaluation tools, and product enhancements
- Own technical success for 1-3 enterprise accounts, meeting weekly or biweekly
- Resolve deployment and integration issues to deepen adoption
- Build diagnostics, dashboards, and evaluation harnesses to measure performance and catch regressions
- Explain technical decisions and trade-offs to customer stakeholders
- Identify new use cases and expand deployments across teams
- Translate customer insights into product improvements and engineering priorities
What You Bring
- 3+ years of full-time production engineering experience shipping software for enterprise customers
- Experience at a recognizable, high-growth startup with strong engineering standards
- Independent ownership of building, deploying, and supporting production applications or AI pipelines
- Strong production-level Python and engineering fundamentals
- Solid understanding of AI, LLMs, and machine learning concepts
- Use of Claude, Codex, or similar coding tools beyond autocomplete, guided by sound technical judgment
- Enterprise deployment experience spanning integrations, troubleshooting, and customer-specific constraints
- Clear communication and confidence leading technical customer conversations
- A quantitative approach to debugging, experimentation, and performance measurement
- Willingness to work on-site in San Francisco five days per week
Key Success Drivers
- Ownership: You identify what needs doing and follow through until the issue is resolved and the deployment works
- Technical judgment: You build solutions that fit the problem and validate them with evidence
- Customer judgment: You understand the customer’s technical context and connect engineering work to useful outcomes
- Quality: You move quickly without overlooking the details that determine production reliability
- Communication: You explain trade-offs clearly and keep technical and business stakeholders aligned
- Resourcefulness: You build the tools, diagnostics, or prototypes needed to unblock progress
- Adaptability: You move comfortably between coding, evaluations, troubleshooting, and customer conversations
Why Join?
- Compensation: $220,000–$320,000 annual salary, plus competitive equity
- Scope: Help build the FDE function while owning evaluations, implementation, and ongoing technical outcomes
- Production impact: Solve document-processing and deployment challenges that directly affect enterprise AI applications
- Product influence: Work directly with founders and engineering to turn customer needs into platform improvements
- Team: Join a founder-led, engineering-first environment with close collaboration across product, sales, and customer success
- Benefits: Medical, dental, and vision insurance; unlimited PTO; flexible parental leave; and up to $150/month in eligible health and wellness reimbursement
- Office support: Free daily lunch and reimbursed transportation
- Visa support: Open to visa transfers (e.g. OPT, H1B transfers) and sponsorship
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View Company ProfileLavendo (operating at lavendo.io) is a sales recruiting platform engineered for startups and high-growth companies seeking to accelerate their go-to-market strategies. Founded in 2021, Lavendo specializes in connecting businesses with remote sales talent, addressing the critical challenge of hiring skilled sales professionals who can drive revenue growth. Unlike traditional recruiting firms that may lack expertise in the nuances of startup sales teams, Lavendo’s approach is tailored to the unique demands of early-stage and scaling companies. The company leverages a specialized network of sales talent—primarily US-based candidates across all seniority levels—to streamline the hiring process. This allows startups and enterprises to quickly assemble high-performing sales teams, ensuring faster ramp-up times and improved revenue outcomes. While specific funding details are not publicly disclosed, Lavendo’s focus on remote sales recruitment positions it as a niche yet impactful player in the talent acquisition space.
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