Forward Deployed Engineer - Software Engineer - USA
Design and build the integrations for ElevenLabs’ most strategic customers, from the architecture through production.
- Remote in the US, San Francisco or New York preferred
- Full time
- Customer onsites
- Pay not listed
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“This is a builder’s job, and it is remote-first. ElevenLabs prefers San Francisco or New York, and the customer onsites are regular.”
Who it suits
A good fit
- Have worked with customers, even if that was a student club or a side project
- Like owning a project through to a working integration
- Want to be remote in the US, with an office in San Francisco or New York when you want it
Think twice
- Don’t want regular travel to a customer site
- Haven’t worked with a customer on a technical problem
- Don’t want to explain a technical choice to an engineer or an executive
What you’d do
- Own major projects for ElevenLabs’ most strategic partners, and deliver the solution yourself.
- Work daily with the customer’s engineers and executives on how they use the technology.
- Design the architecture and the product features, then build the integrations.
- Use code to solve the customer’s problem.
What they ask for
- You’ve worked with customers. A student club or a side project counts, if you want to work with them on technical problems.
- You’re proficient in Python, and you understand software architecture and API integration.
- You can summarize a complex technical point and use that to pick a solution.
- You’ll travel regularly for customer onsites.
How it works
- The role is remote-first, from anywhere in the United States, with a preference for San Francisco or New York and the option to use the office.
- Expect regular travel for customer onsites.
What to know about this job
Open at least 19 weeks. Half of San Francisco FDE jobs have closed by week 12.
- Week 12Half of San Francisco FDE jobs have closed
- Week 19This job has been open this long
In November 2026, ElevenLabs had 4 forward deployed engineer jobs open, in San Francisco, London, Argentina, and Mexico.
The builder, the most common kind of FDE in San Francisco
- 56%The builder (this job). This kind ships production code into the customer’s systems, including integrations, data pipelines, and agents.
- 40%The deployment lead. Scopes the customer’s problem, runs the rollout and makes sure the product delivers what was promised.
Shares of open FDE jobs in San Francisco.
Most new San Francisco forward deployed engineers weren’t forward deployed engineers before
- 90% of people who became forward deployed engineers in San Francisco weren’t forward deployed engineers in their last job.
- 46% of them came from a startup or scale-up.
ElevenLabs doesn’t list pay for this job
The San Francisco forward deployed engineer guide shows what forward deployed engineers in San Francisco expect to earn.
What San Francisco forward deployed engineers earnWorth asking the hiring team
- “How many customer onsites in a month are in the Bay Area, and how many are elsewhere?”
- “Is pay set for this US role, or decided later?”
Jack’s take on ElevenLabs
- Revenue reached $600M a year within four years
- Valuation rose from $3.3B to $22B in 20 months
- The team grew from 330 to 800 people in a year
- Key leaders
- A fast, hands-on place to work
- Headquarters in London and New York
- Founded 2022
- 131 open jobs
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Jack & Jill isn’t ElevenLabs’s recruiter. We summarized this job from ElevenLabs’s public careers page, where you can apply. We check whether it’s still open each time you open this page. The market numbers come from our San Francisco forward deployed engineer guide and the company facts from ElevenLabs’s page. We last checked this summary against the posting on November 9, 2026. Jack’s take is Jack & Jill’s own.