Founding Forward-Deployed AI Engineer (Equity)

H COMPANY; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Competitive compensation

Job summary

H Company is seeking a Founding Forward Deployed Engineer to join our AI initiatives in the US. You will own multi-step customer automation projects, integrate with client systems, and ship production-grade services that scale.

You will collaborate with product, research, and engineering teams to shape the roadmap, travel for on-site deployments, and contribute to building agentic AI that delivers real-world outcomes.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional AI + software engineering experience in fast-paced environments.
• Experience with AI/ML systems, especially integrating LLMs into real products.
• Fluency in Python and familiarity with Typescript.
• Familiarity with backend (FastAPI, Next.js) and frontend (React) frameworks.
• Experience building production APIs, services, and data pipelines.
• Strong problem-solving and customer-facing communication.
• Willingness to travel for on-site deployments.

Responsibilities

• Understand and identify customer’s most important multi-step tasks to automate.
• Integrate with customer systems, including databases, third-party APIs, and internal tools.
• Iterate in the field with tight feedback loops to 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

APIs

Data pipelines

AI/ML

Tools

FastAPI

Next.js

React

Job description

H Company is seeking a Founding Forward Deployed Engineer to join our AI initiatives in the US. You will own multi-step customer automation projects, integrate with client systems, and ship production-grade services that scale.

You will collaborate with product, research, and engineering teams to shape the roadmap, travel for on-site deployments, and contribute to building agentic AI that delivers real-world outcomes.