Forward-Deployed AI Engineer - Client-Facing Prototyping

Halluminates; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 215,000 - 275,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

Relocation stipend

401(k)

Food

Gym membership

Transportation: Uber/Waymo

Visa sponsorship

Job summary

Halluminate, a data research lab, seeks an experienced forward‑deployed engineer to work with frontier AI labs and enterprise customers in SF. You will join customer research meetings, interpret requests, and build software that advances revenue‑critical RL environments.

You will prototype quickly, ship customer‑specific tooling, and collaborate with platform teams to scale solutions while maintaining technical credibility with clients throughout scoping and delivery.

Qualifications

• 2+ years in consulting or forward-deployed engineering for large enterprises.
• Strong engineering ability with comfort presenting to customers.
• Track record of delivering new work in ambiguity without a spec.
• Ability to translate fuzzy customer language into technical requirements.
• Startup pace: quick iteration, fast decision making, rapid feedback.
• Experience building evals, environments, and benchmarks for AI Agents.

Responsibilities

• Work directly with frontier AI labs and enterprise customers to understand requirements and what they need from an RL environment.
• Translate customer requirements into concrete technical specs our platform and project pods can build against.
• Build 01 — prototype, ship, and iterate on customer-specific environments and tooling before any of it becomes a platform feature.
• Use and extend our internal platforms and dev tooling rather than rebuilding them.
• Embed with SPL project pods to unblock delivery: integration, technical debugging, and the last-mile problems that decide whether a project lands.
• Feed patterns back to the platform team so one-off solutions become reusable capability.
• Own technical credibility in customer conversations, from scoping through delivery.

Skills

Enterprise consulting

Customer-facing engineering

Shipping in ambiguity

Requirements translation

Rapid prototyping

AI agents benchmarks

Platform collaboration

Job description

Halluminate, a data research lab, seeks an experienced forward‑deployed engineer to work with frontier AI labs and enterprise customers in SF. You will join customer research meetings, interpret requests, and build software that advances revenue‑critical RL environments.

You will prototype quickly, ship customer‑specific tooling, and collaborate with platform teams to scale solutions while maintaining technical credibility with clients throughout scoping and delivery.