Forward Deployed Engineer - San Francisco, CA - $150K-$225K

Location: San Francisco, CA (in-person)

Compensation: $150,000 - $225,000 base, plus top-quartile equity

Join a fast-growing AI-enabled insurance company as a Forward Deployed Engineer, deploying multi-modal, agentic AI systems into production with significant business impact for senior client stakeholders.

What You'll Own

- Individually deploy multi-modal, agentic AI systems into production for senior client stakeholders

- Own client deployments end-to-end, from scoping through go-live, as the primary point of contact

- Build and manage client relationships, becoming the trusted partner executives rely on to scale AI adoption

- Design, build, and evolve AI agents that deliver optimal outcomes through prompt engineering, model integration, and rapid prototyping with AI-assisted coding tools

- Scope and develop new features that help customers scale while consistently improving results

- Integrate the product into client environments, working hands-on with their technical teams on APIs and systems

- Coordinate with the core platform team to ensure smooth delivery and feed actionable insights back into the product

What You'll Bring

- 2+ years in a role combining technical depth with client-facing ownership, such as agent engineering, forward-deployed engineering, growth engineering, or founding engineer/founder experience

- A solid technical foundation, comfortable with Python, APIs, cloud platforms, and modern AI/ML tooling

- Familiarity with LLMs, prompt engineering, and agentic AI concepts, with comfort using AI-assisted development workflows to ship fast

- Strong client-facing communication, able to connect complex technical concepts to business outcomes

- A founder-mode operating style, taking ownership of problems and moving fast

- Based in or willing to relocate to San Francisco for in-person work (full relocation support provided)

Nice to Have

- Prior forward-deployed engineering experience at a top AI company

- Agent engineering or growth engineering background

- Founding engineer or founder experience

- Backend engineering experience followed by solutions engineering experience

- Competitive technical pedigree such as ICPC or NeurIPS

This is a high-impact, still-forming function at a fast-growing company, with the chance to shape both the forward-deployed engineering practice and the product itself based on what you learn in the field.