Founding Forward-Deployed AI Engineer (Equity)

H Company; New York (NY); On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Job summary

H Company is an AI research and product company building autonomous, agentic systems. They seek a Founding Forward Deployed Engineer to automate multi-step customer tasks and integrate with diverse systems.

Role involves collaborating with product, research, and engineering teams to shape the roadmap and deliver end-to-end solutions. The team operates across distributed locations with on-site deployments; you will engage directly with customers to implement scalable production-grade AI services

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional AI + software engineering experience in fast-paced environments.
• Experience with AI/ML systems, integrating LLMs or agentic workflows into products.
• Fluency in Python; familiarity with TypeScript.
• Familiarity with backend (FastAPI, Next.js) and frontend (React) frameworks and UI/UX tradeoffs.
• Experience building and deploying production APIs, services, data pipelines.
• Proficiency in integrating third-party APIs, databases, and external systems in a secure and reliable way.
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to thrive in ambiguous, customer-facing environments.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Bias for action: able to ship quickly, iterate fast, and own the full lifecycle of solutions.
• Willingness to travel for on-site deployments or customer engagements.

Responsibilities

• Understand and identify customer’s most important and impactful multi-step task to automate
• Seamlessly integrate with customer systems, including but not limited to databases, third-party APIs, and internal tools, etc.
• Rapidly iterate in the field with tight feedback loops to continuously improve product fit and drive end-to-end solution delivery
• Architect, build, and maintain production-grade services that scale with usage and complexity
• Collaborate closely with product, research, and engineering teams to shape the roadmap and align on priorities based on findings in the field

Skills

Python

TypeScript

Problem-solving

Communication

Tools

FastAPI

Next.js

React

Job description

H Company is an AI research and product company building autonomous, agentic systems. They seek a Founding Forward Deployed Engineer to automate multi-step customer tasks and integrate with diverse systems.

Role involves collaborating with product, research, and engineering teams to shape the roadmap and deliver end-to-end solutions. The team operates across distributed locations with on-site deployments; you will engage directly with customers to implement scalable production-grade AI services