Forward Deployed Engineer Intern

a16z-speedrun; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 34,440,000 - 55,104,000; Full time

Job summary

a16z-speedrun is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer Intern in San Francisco for a Summer, in-person experience. You will work directly with customers and the founding team to architect solutions and deploy production-ready work within days, gaining broad exposure across our workflow engine, data models, and AI-powered applications.

Ideal candidates are hands-on builders who have shipped products and are comfortable with React, TypeScript, Python, plus SQL/API development and cloud

Qualifications

• Hands-on builders eager to learn from direct customer feedback.
• Experience shipping products that users actually use.
• You should be comfortable with React, TypeScript, Python; SQL and API development; AWS or modern cloud infra; building AI products with LLMs, RAG, or agentic systems.

Responsibilities

• Work directly with customers and founders to deliver real business impact from day one.
• Join customer calls to understand challenges and architect solutions.
• Deploy your product to production within the week and observe usage.
• Collaborate across workflow engine, data models, AI apps, and infra.

Skills

React

TypeScript

Python

SQL

API development

Tools

AWS

Job description

Forward Deployed Engineer Intern

San Francisco · Summer · In-person

What we do

We're building Infragrid to end the tax of manual financial work. We capture how businesses operate (SOPs, screen recordings, and analyst expertise), and compile those workflows into deterministic software. The result is an operational platform that powers AI automation across insurance, banking, and commercial real estate. Backed by a16z; built by ex-Palantir, ex-Mercor, and ex-AWS engineers.

What you'll do

As a Forward Deployed Engineer Intern, you'll work directly with customers and the founding team to deliver real business impact from day one.

One week might look like:

• Join a customer call on Monday to understand their toughest challenges

• Collaborate with founders and engineers on Tuesday to architect a solution

• Deploy your product to production by Thursday and watch customers use your work

You'll work across:

• Workflow engine

• Ontology and data models

• AI-powered applications

• Screen-recorder-to-code platform

• Infrastructure and backend systems

What we're looking for

We're looking for hands-on builders eager to learn from direct customer feedback and quick iteration cycles. You've built products people actually use and know what it's like to solve problems on the fly when software breaks in production.

You should be comfortable with:

• React, TypeScript, Python

• SQL and API development

• AWS or modern cloud infrastructure

• Building AI products with LLMs, RAG, or agentic systems

You'll have the chance to own more product surface area in one summer than most engineers see in their first year at a big company.