Field-Embedded AI Deployment Engineer

Kindredventures; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Kindredventures Forward Deployed Engineer is needed to embed with customers and deliver practical data infrastructure, integrations, and AI systems that work in the real world, not just in theory.

You design and ship scalable solutions, work hands-on across the stack, and stay on-site with customers for extended periods, traveling as needed to ensure success and impact. This role requires strong problem-solving, adaptability, and the ability to operate under high-stakes conditions.

Qualifications

• Strong, versatile engineering skills and the resourcefulness to solve unfamiliar problems with whatever it takes.
• Experience building and shipping real systems in production — data infrastructure, integrations, applications.
• Comfort working directly with customers and adapting fast to their environments and constraints.
• Willingness to travel and embed on-site wherever the mission needs you.
• Bias toward real‑world impact over elegance: solutions that work for the user, under pressure.

Responsibilities

• Embed with strategic customers to understand their mission and ensure we build the solution that actually solves it
• Deliver scalable data infrastructure and integrations inside real customer environments
• Design and ship AI systems that hold up under real-world conditions, data, and constraints
• Surface new problems as you find them in the field, and extend our core platform to handle them
• Work hands‑on across the stack — technical, resourceful, and close to the user

Skills

Engineering skills

Production systems

Customer interaction

Travel on-site

Real-world impact

Job description

Kindredventures Forward Deployed Engineer is needed to embed with customers and deliver practical data infrastructure, integrations, and AI systems that work in the real world, not just in theory.

You design and ship scalable solutions, work hands-on across the stack, and stay on-site with customers for extended periods, traveling as needed to ensure success and impact. This role requires strong problem-solving, adaptability, and the ability to operate under high-stakes conditions.