Customer-Facing AI Deployment Engineer

Applied Compute; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Equity

Generous health benefits

Unlimited PTO

Paid parental leave

Daily lunches and dinners

Transportation and relocation support

Retirement plans

Job summary

Applied Compute seeks a forward deployed engineer to work with customers, deploying and integrating our platform, building large-scale data pipelines and evaluation frameworks for model training, and ensuring production-ready training environments.

You will own engagements end-to-end, architect environments, and create tooling to accelerate customer success while collaborating with researchers and other engineers. This role is based in San Francisco and includes strong opportunities for impact.

Qualifications

• Strong software engineering fundamentals and ability to build polished, functional applications quickly.
• Experience building full-stack applications, data analysis tooling, or developer-facing products.
• Ability to use large-scale data and LLMs to solve valuable business problems.
• Strong problem-solving skills in ambiguous, fast-changing environments with high autonomy.
• Background with LLMs or ML systems in production is a plus.
• Former founders or early engineers at zero-to-one companies are advantageous.
• Demonstrated engineering creativity through side projects, open source contributions, or shipped products.

Responsibilities

• Deploy and integrate our platform within customer environments end-to-end.
• Build environment simulations, data capture pipelines, and tooling for model training and evaluation.
• Create applications and tooling to accelerate customer engagements.
• Mock out and orchestrate customer-specific environments for model training and deployment.
• Work with applied researchers to ensure training environments and data flows are production-ready.
• Surface engineering requirements from customer engagements and contribute them back to the core platform.

Skills

Full-stack development

Data analysis tooling

LLMs production experience

Autonomy in fast-changing environments

Customer-facing engagements

LLMs/ML systems in production

Founders/early engineer experience

Open source contributions

Job description

Applied Compute seeks a forward deployed engineer to work with customers, deploying and integrating our platform, building large-scale data pipelines and evaluation frameworks for model training, and ensuring production-ready training environments.

You will own engagements end-to-end, architect environments, and create tooling to accelerate customer success while collaborating with researchers and other engineers. This role is based in San Francisco and includes strong opportunities for impact.