Embedded AI Engineer for Customer Deployments

FDE Team; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 160,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

FDE Team in San Francisco is hiring Forward Deployed Engineers who blend strong software engineering with direct customer engagement. You will embed with customer teams, understand complex problems, design scalable solutions, and own deployment from discovery to production.

This role emphasizes hands-on engineering—building production-grade systems, APIs, and AI workflows, rather than traditional consulting or pre-sales. Travel is required to work onsite with clients across environments.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Experience building backend applications, APIs, integrations or full-stack products.
• Ability to scope independently and solve ambiguous technical problems.
• Experience taking software from prototype into production.
• Cloud experience with AWS, Azure or GCP.
• Strong debugging and systems-thinking capabilities.
• Comfortable working directly with technical and business stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Work directly with customers to understand complex technical problems.
• Translate ambiguous requirements into practical technical solutions.
• Build AI applications, integrations, APIs, backend services and automation.
• Develop using Python, TypeScript and other modern technologies.
• Build LLM, RAG and agentic AI workflows where appropriate.
• Integrate with customer APIs, databases, cloud platforms and enterprise systems.
• Work directly within customer engineering environments and workflows.
• Troubleshoot application, integration, data and infrastructure issues.
• Partner with FDE Team engineering pods to turn customer-specific solutions into reusable capabilities.
• Document solutions and support successful knowledge transfer.

Skills

5+ years exp

Backend/APIs/integrations

Scope independently

Prototype to production

Cloud: AWS/Azure/GCP

Debugging & systems thinking

Stakeholder collaboration

Job description

FDE Team in San Francisco is hiring Forward Deployed Engineers who blend strong software engineering with direct customer engagement. You will embed with customer teams, understand complex problems, design scalable solutions, and own deployment from discovery to production.

This role emphasizes hands-on engineering—building production-grade systems, APIs, and AI workflows, rather than traditional consulting or pre-sales. Travel is required to work onsite with clients across environments.