Forward Deployed Engineer

Codos; San Francisco (CA); Remote; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Codos seeks a Forward Deployed Engineer to build and deploy AI-powered software directly within client environments. You will collaborate with client stakeholders to design architectures, implement robust back-end services, and ensure reliability, scalability, and performance of deployed solutions.

In this role, you will develop production-quality code, integrate AI models and APIs, and contribute to internal product development based on client experience. Remote role with global client exposure.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical deployment of Codos Virtual Chief AI Officer and Company Brain from kickoff to daily use by the client’s teams
• Connect approved sources such as Slack, email, calls and documents to Company Brain, configuring access and ensuring answers reflect the client’s business
• Set up Virtual Chief AI Officer around the client’s goals and workflows, validating findings and turning opportunities into a build plan
• Build and evaluate agents, MCP servers, skills and integrations that use Company Brain to run workflows across finance, sales, support, HR and engineering
• Work with function heads to get workflows into daily use, resolve deployment issues and review results
• Turn the integrations, skills and deployment patterns you build into reusable parts of the platform

Job description

Company Description: Codos is an AI transformation company that helps enterprise and midsize organizations become AI-native and realize financial impact within months. By combining strategic expertise similar to top consulting firms with cutting-edge AI research and engineering, Codos delivers practical, software-driven transformation. The company focuses on AI-transformation-as-software, enabling clients to quickly integrate AI into core operations. Team members work on high-impact initiatives that directly influence business outcomes. Codos offers a dynamic environment for professionals who want to shape how businesses adopt and scale AI.

Role Description: The Forward Deployed Engineer is a full-time, remote role responsible for building and deploying AI-powered software solutions directly within client environments. In this role, you will collaborate with client stakeholders and internal teams to understand business requirements, design technical architectures, and implement robust back-end systems and services. You will develop, test, and maintain production-quality code, integrate AI models and APIs, and ensure reliability, scalability, and performance of deployed solutions. Day-to-day work includes troubleshooting issues, optimizing systems, and iterating quickly based on client feedback. You will also contribute to internal product development based on your client experiences and development of best practices that improve future deployments.

What You'll Work On:

• Owning the technical deployment of Codos Virtual Chief AI Officer and Company Brain, from kickoff and system setup to daily use by the client’s teams
• Connecting approved sources such as Slack, email, calls and documents to Company Brain, configuring access and checking that its answers reflect the client’s business
• Setting up Virtual Chief AI Officer around the client’s goals and workflows, validating diagnostic findings and turning prioritized opportunities into a build plan
• Building and evaluating agents, MCP servers, skills and integrations that use Company Brain to run workflows across finance, sales, support, HR and engineering
• Working with function heads to get those workflows into daily use, resolve deployment issues and review the results
• Turning the integrations, skills and deployment patterns you build repeatedly into reusable parts of the platform

Ideal Profile:

• Previously worked on applied AI in-house, in an AI practice at a consultancy, or at an AI deployment company
• Worked at a Speedrun, YC or other early-stage startup
• Has a proven AI implementation success case that delivered $1M+ in impact

What You Bring to the Table:

• You have deployed AI systems inside companies and owned the integrations, access setup and work needed to get people using them
• You are a strong engineer who has led technical delivery for demanding customers, as a founder or CTO, a forward deployed or solutions engineer, or an engineering lead
• You can explain an architecture to a CTO and a trade-off to a CFO on the same day
• You get things done inside a large client where nobody owes you access, data or time
• You have built a function or a client practice from nothing, not taken over a running one
• You can carry one or two clients at a time and travel for kickoffs and key moments

Why You Should Join Our Team: Today a handful of people carry all client work, and every client is a multi-year relationship with direct access to the CEO and the executive team. You will be one of the first forward deployed engineers, so the playbook, the tooling and the way this function works will be shaped by you. You will shape how our product is installed, trusted and used inside a company. The integrations, skills and deployment patterns you develop feed back into the platform, so your work at one client makes the next deployment better. This is the first of several forward deployed hires, and there is room to lead the function as it grows.

We help mid and large size companies become self-evolving organizations.

• Real impact: We generate millions of dollars of impact for NASDAQ-listed and PE-backed clients, and we are going after the $500B services industry with software.
• Small team, huge impact: We are fewer than ten people, backed by a16z speedrun. The team is ex-McKinsey, ex-Meta ML and ex-Tesla, and the founders have run companies before: Dima scaled Everclear to $1B in monthly volume as CEO. Each new hire changes the company's trajectory.
• Client impact first, AI-native: We measure ourselves by the money a client saved or earned. Everyone here builds their own agents, and the company runs on its own company brain, the same way we teach clients to work.
• We have real client demand that is ahead of our current headcount and we are hiring to close that gap.