Forward Deployed Engineer for Enterprise Document AI

Lavendo, Inc.; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 220,000 - 320,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Unlimited PTO

Parental leave

Job summary

Lavendo, Inc.'s client, a Series B enterprise AI startup, is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer in San Francisco. You will own technical integrations, run enterprise evaluations, and deliver production deployments with 1-3 accounts.

This founding FDE role blends engineering with customer relationships; on-site five days per week, you'll build applications, diagnose issues, and influence platform improvements alongside founders and product.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of full-time production engineering experience shipping software for enterprise customers.
• Experience at a recognizable, high-growth startup with strong engineering standards.
• Independent ownership of building, deploying, and supporting production applications or AI pipelines.
• Strong production-level Python and engineering fundamentals.
• Solid understanding of AI, LLMs, and machine learning concepts.
• Enterprise deployment experience spanning integrations, troubleshooting, and customer-specific constraints.
• Clear communication and confidence leading technical customer conversations.
• A quantitative approach to debugging, experimentation, and performance measurement.
• Willingness to work on-site in San Francisco five days per week.

Responsibilities

• Turn customer requirements into working applications and integrations.
• Partner with AEs and SEs on evaluations, custom demos, and competitive benchmarking.
• Build custom applications, agents, evaluation tools, and product enhancements.
• Own technical success for 1-3 enterprise accounts, meeting weekly or biweekly.
• Resolve deployment and integration issues to deepen adoption.
• Build diagnostics, dashboards, and evaluation harnesses to measure performance and catch regressions.
• Explain technical decisions and trade-offs to customer stakeholders.
• Identify new use cases and expand deployments across teams.
• Translate customer insights into product improvements and engineering priorities.

Skills

Production engineering

Startup experience

Ownership

Python

AI/LLMs

Customer communication

Deployment

Debugging

Technical leadership

On-site SF

Tools

Claude

Codex

Job description

Lavendo, Inc.'s client, a Series B enterprise AI startup, is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer in San Francisco. You will own technical integrations, run enterprise evaluations, and deliver production deployments with 1-3 accounts.

This founding FDE role blends engineering with customer relationships; on-site five days per week, you'll build applications, diagnose issues, and influence platform improvements alongside founders and product.