Forward Deployed Engineer
You’d build product features, integrations, and customer AI for HappyRobot, from onboarding through everyday use.
- San Francisco, hybrid
- Full time
- React
- Python
- a base of $120k to $220k
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“This is a builder’s job across the product and the customer’s AI. You’d write full-stack code, and work on prompts, voice tuning, and transcribers.”
Who it suits
A good fit
- Like shipping product code and customer-facing AI
- Want to work across React, TypeScript, Node.js, and Python
- Enjoy explaining a technical system to someone who doesn’t write code
Think twice
- Haven’t shipped full-stack product code
- Prefer to leave the prompting, voice, and transcriber work to someone else
- Want a manager setting the order of the work
What you’d do
- Work with customers from onboarding through ongoing use, and help them integrate the AI.
- Build features, prototypes, and tools that change a customer’s outcome.
- Write applications in React, TypeScript, Node.js, and Python.
- Design prompts, voice tuning, and transcribers, and manage APIs and third-party systems.
What they ask for
- You have strong full-stack experience in React, TypeScript, and Node.js, and you’re proficient in Python.
- You’ve built AI applications, including prompting and tuning.
- You can manage APIs and third-party integrations, and explain the work to people who don’t write code.
- You can run several projects on a tight deadline, and you take ownership without waiting to be managed.
How it works
- The job is hybrid in San Francisco.
- HappyRobot labels the band an estimated base salary, and it mentions equity without a figure.
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, HappyRobot had 14 forward deployed engineer jobs open in 14 locations.
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.
HappyRobot lists a base of $120k to $220k 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 days a week is the San Francisco office?”
- “How do you split a month between product code and the AI tuning?”
Jack’s take on HappyRobot
- Revenue grew more than fivefold in 11 months
- Valuation more than doubled to $1.2B in 11 months
- The team nearly tripled to 200+ people in a year
- Key leaders
- A hard-working team that fixes problems without blame
- Based in San Francisco and Madrid
- Founded 2023
- 76 open jobs
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Jack & Jill isn’t HappyRobot’s recruiter. We summarized this job from HappyRobot’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 HappyRobot’s page. We last checked this summary against the posting on November 9, 2026. Jack’s take is Jack & Jill’s own.