Forward Deployed Engineer

Simular; Palo Alto (CA); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Simular is seeking a customer-focused engineer to partner with early customers to deploy and adapt our AI agents in real-world environments, translating customer needs into product features and integrations.

You will write scripts and workflows to tailor agents to client environments, build custom solutions, and serve as the bridge between customer-facing teams and core engineering, turning feedback into roadmap priorities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in CS, CSE, IS, or related technical field.
• Strong scripting skills and ability to automate workflows.
• Experience working with customers or in client-facing engineering roles.
• Ability to thrive in ambiguous environments balancing problem-solving with product thinking.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.
• Bonus: experience deploying SaaS/AI systems or customer-facing technical roles.

Responsibilities

• Partner directly with early customers to deploy and adapt Simular’s AI agents in real-world environments.
• Translate customer needs into product features, prototypes, and integrations.
• Write scripts and workflows to adapt our agents to customer-specific environments.
• Build custom solutions, tools, and workflows that showcase the power of Simular in production.
• Act as the bridge between customer-facing teams and core engineering/research – turning feedback into roadmap priorities.
• Be a “founding multiplier”: scrappy, resourceful, and deeply customer-obsessed.

Skills

Customer-facing experience

Communication skills

Ambiguity tolerance

Problem-solving

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical field

Tools

Python

Bash

JavaScript

Job description

Overview

Where multiple locations are listed for this role, the position may be based in any of those locations, with priority determined according to the order of listing.

Responsibilities

• Partner directly with early customers to deploy and adapt Simular’s AI agents in real-world environments.

• Translate customer needs into product features, prototypes, and integrations.

• Write scripts and workflows to adapt our agents to customer-specific environments.

• Build custom solutions, tools, and workflows that showcase the power of Simular in production.

• Act as the bridge between customer-facing teams and core engineering/research – turning feedback into roadmap priorities.

• Be a “founding multiplier”: scrappy, resourceful, and deeply customer-obsessed.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical field.

• Strong scripting skills (Python, Bash, or JavaScript) and ability to quickly automate workflows.

• Experience working with customers or in client-facing engineering roles. OR comfort working directly with customers and translating business needs into technical solutions.

• Ability to thrive in ambiguous environments, balancing immediate problem-solving with long-term product thinking.

• Strong communication and collaboration skills.

• Bonus: experience with deploying SaaS or AI systems, consulting/solutions engineering, or customer-facing technical roles.