Forward Deployed Engineer

I’m working with a YC startup building AI systems that are being deployed directly into real-world enterprise workflows. They’ve recently raised their Seed round, signed initial customers, and are now looking for a highly technical engineer who wants to operate closer to the business, product, and customer problems rather than sitting in a siloed engineering function. This is not a traditional solutions engineer role. You’ll be: building AI agents writing production code designing infrastructure deploying systems into customer environments working directly with enterprise stakeholders to solve operational problems The founders are specifically looking for engineers who can both: build at a high technical level communicate clearly with customers The backgrounds they tend to like: early engineers at AI startups strong backend or product engineers from high-calibre engineering companies engineers already building with LLMs, agents, or AI-native tooling What makes the role interesting: Very early-stage with real traction already Small, high-agency team Real ownership from day one Fast-moving environment with very little bureaucracy Opportunity to shape both product and technical direction early Python Node.js / TypeScript APIs + integrations AI agents / LLM systems cloud infrastructure You’ll likely enjoy this if: you want your work close to customers/users you prefer ownership over process you’re excited by agentic AI systems rather than traditional SaaS