Founding AI Deployment Engineer — Customer-Facing & Onsite

Inventure; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Inventure is hiring a Founding Forward Deployed Engineer to join the deployment team in San Francisco. You will sit at the intersection of engineering, customers and product, taking agentic AI systems from demo to production in real enterprise operations.

Lead on-site with customer teams, write deployment code, and build scalable playbooks as the company scales. Equity is significant, with a path to leadership as the team grows.

Qualifications

• 1–4 years of full-stack software engineering experience, ideally in a high-growth startup or Big Tech environment.
• Strong foundation in APIs, webhooks and system architecture.
• Experience deploying AI/ML or agentic systems.
• Ability to operate with high agency in ambiguity and in cross-functional settings.
• Experience as a founder or early engineer at a startup or in a forward-deployed role is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical discovery, design proofs of concept, and run tailored demos mapped to each prospect's workflows.
• Embed on-site with customer operations to scope integrations and write code that unblocks live deals.
• Scope and run pilot programmes with clear metrics and ROI models.
• Own end-to-end onboarding: data mapping, workflow configuration, API and webhook integrations, go-live.
• Bridge customers with product and engineering to surface edge cases and shape the roadmap.

Skills

Full-stack engineering

APIs & webhooks

AI/Agentic systems

Ambiguity tolerance

Startup/Founder mindset

Tools

Terraform

Job description

Inventure is hiring a Founding Forward Deployed Engineer to join the deployment team in San Francisco. You will sit at the intersection of engineering, customers and product, taking agentic AI systems from demo to production in real enterprise operations.

Lead on-site with customer teams, write deployment code, and build scalable playbooks as the company scales. Equity is significant, with a path to leadership as the team grows.