You will embed directly with customers to understand their specific workflows and rapidly build custom plugins and integrations. As a founding team member, you will own the customer relationship end-to-end, translating real-world problems into production-ready software. This role bridges the gap between core product engineering and high-impact customer solutions.
Forward Deployed Engineer at Fast-growing AI startup
Are you a high-agency engineer who thrives at the intersection of product building and customer impact? Join an elite founding team building the next generation of AI-powered productivity tools. In this role, you will embed directly with users, solve their most complex workflow challenges, and ship production-ready integrations in days, not months. We are looking for versatile generalists who want to define a new category of software and own the customer relationship end-to-end. If you have experience in customer-facing engineering and want to work on the frontier of agentic AI, this is your chance to secure a founding-team role with meaningful equity in a well-funded startup.
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Location
Remote
Compensation
Not Disclosed + Equity
Company
Confidential company
Role overview
About the company
Fast-growing AI productivity startup
What you will do
- Embed with customers to map complex workflows and identify opportunities for AI-driven automation.
- Develop and ship custom plugins, skills, and integrations that integrate the platform into diverse enterprise environments.
- Feed insights from customer deployments back into the core product team to improve the underlying platform.
Who this is a fit for
- Strong generalist engineering background with experience shipping production software across the full stack.
- Proven track record in customer-facing technical roles, such as solutions engineering or forward-deployed engineering.
- High agency and comfort working in ambiguous environments without rigid specifications or established best practices.
Why this role is remarkable
- Join as a founding team member with significant influence over product direction and company culture.
- Work at a well-funded startup backed by top-tier VCs, focused on defining a new category of AI tools.
- Experience high-velocity shipping cycles where you see the direct impact of your code on users within days.
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