Forward Deployed AI Engineer

Forward Deploy AI Engineer | Lightspeed-Backed AI Startup | SF | Up to $400K

Most AI engineers build in isolation. This role puts you inside customer production systems on day one.

My client is a Lightspeed-backed startup building infrastructure for Agent Behavior Monitoring — helping hundreds of teams understand exactly how their autonomous agents behave post-deployment. $30M raised in the last 5 months. Under 20 people. Everyone is either an ex-founder or founder to be. They ship at a pace most companies never reach.

They are hiring a Forward Deploy AI Engineer to embed their platform directly into customer codebases, own integrations end to end, diagnose real agent failures in live environments, and drive long-term adoption. Half deep engineering. Half customer ownership.

If your background includes forward deployed or solutions engineering at a company like Palantir, Databricks, Datadog, Cognition, Decagon, Sierra, Cursor, Anyscale, Ramp, Retool, Figma, Notion, or similar high signal B2B tech companies — this was written for you.

Role Requirements:

• 3 to 7+ years of engineering experience
• Production agent or applied AI engineering experience — non-negotiable
• Prior forward deployed, solutions architect, or solutions engineering experience at a B2B tech company
• Strong technical background — coding competitions, research experience, or equivalent signal
• Strong customer facing communication skills — you explain complex systems clearly to both engineers and executives
• Comfort deploying LLM or agent systems into real production environments
• Prior evals, observability, or behavior monitoring experience is strongly preferred
• High touch, solutions oriented work style — you own customer outcomes not just tickets
• Based in or willing to relocate to San Francisco
• 5 days in person
• Wants to be a technical founder eventually
• H-1B, O-1, and OPT considered for exceptional candidates

Compensation and Benefits:

• Junior 3 years: $200,000
• Mid 3 to 5 years: $300,000 to $350,000
• Senior 5 to 7 years: $400,000
• Plus equity
• Private chef in office
• Equinox membership
• Full benefits package
• In-person, San Francisco

Email olamidayo@talenthackers.team

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Pay: From $200,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• Dental insurance
• Paid time off
• Parental leave

Work Location: In person