Forward Deployed Engineer

Crane Venture Partners; San Francisco (CA); Remote; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first with SF hub

Job summary

Laminar is a San Francisco–based company helping enterprise teams unlock AI within their systems. Forward Deployed Engineers embed with customer teams, learn their business, and ship working software into production.

You will embed with enterprise customers, design AI-powered Salesforce solutions, and drive projects from discovery to production. The role blends engineering depth with client-facing communication and fast, ownership-driven execution.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of software engineering experience, including customer-facing or consulting work.
• Strong hands-on Salesforce development: Apex, Lightning Web Components, Flows, and the Salesforce data model.
• Experience with APIs, integrations, and enterprise data.
• Comfort working with LLMs and AI tools in real production settings.
• Clear communication with both engineers and business leaders.
• High ownership. You are comfortable with ambiguity and move fast without waiting for direction.

Responsibilities

• Embed with enterprise customers to understand their workflows, data, and pain points.
• Design and build AI-powered solutions on Salesforce and adjacent business systems.
• Take projects from discovery to production, including integrations, data migration, and deployment.
• Configure and extend Laminar's platform for each customer's environment.
• Be the trusted technical partner for customer engineering and business stakeholders.
• Run demos, workshops, and technical deep dives with customer teams.
• Turn field insights into product feedback and reusable components for the core team.
• Debug hard production issues across systems you did not build.

Skills

Software engineering experience

Salesforce development

General-purpose languages

APIs & integrations

LLMs & AI tools

Clear communication

Ownership & speed in ambiguity

Customer-facing/consulting

Tools

Apex

Lightning Web Components

Flows

Salesforce data model

Job description

About Laminar

Laminar helps enterprise teams unlock the power of AI inside their existing systems. We partner with leading companies to solve complex operational challenges with deep technical expertise and world-class execution. We are a well-funded, ex-Google led early-stage company based in San Francisco with Laminari growing across California, the US, UK, Spain, and India.

The role

This is a Member of Technical Staff / Engineering role which works directly with the founders and our core engineering team. Forward Deployed Engineers (FDEs) are Laminar's engineers in the field. What is learned in the field shapes our product roadmap. They embed with a customer's team, learn how their business really runs, and ship working software on their systems. They scope the problem, build the solution with our platform, and get it into production.

What you'll do

• Embed with enterprise customers to understand their workflows, data, and pain points.
• Design and build AI-powered solutions on Salesforce and adjacent business systems.
• Take projects from discovery to production, including integrations, data migration, and deployment.
• Configure and extend Laminar's platform for each customer's environment.
• Be the trusted technical partner for customer engineering and business stakeholders.
• Run demos, workshops, and technical deep dives with customer teams.
• Turn field insights into product feedback and reusable components for the core team.
• Debug hard production issues across systems you did not build.

What we're looking for

• 4+ years of software engineering experience, with time spent in customer-facing or consulting work.
• Strong hands-on Salesforce development: Apex, Lightning Web Components, Flows, and the Salesforce data model.
• Solid skills in at least one general-purpose language, such as Python, TypeScript, or Java.
• Experience with APIs, integrations, and enterprise data.
• Comfort working with LLMs and AI tools in real production settings.
• Clear communication with both engineers and business leaders.
• High ownership. You are comfortable with ambiguity and move fast without waiting for direction.

Nice to have

• Salesforce certifications, such as Platform Developer II or Application Architect.
• Experience at a Salesforce SI, consultancy, or ISV.
• Background in healthcare, life sciences, or other regulated industries.
• Experience building agents or LLM workflows (Agentforce, OpenAI, Anthropic, or similar).
• Prior startup experience.

Why join Laminar?

• Work on real enterprise problems with immediate customer impact.
• Small, senior team. Your work is visible from day one.
• Remote-first with a San Francisco hub.