Founding Forward Deployed Engineer - US

H COMPANY; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

H Company is seeking a Founding Forward Deployed Engineer in the US, with 3+ years in AI and software engineering. You will autonomously lead deployment of agentic AI solutions, integrate with diverse customer systems, and collaborate with product and research teams to shape the roadmap.

The role requires excellent communication and a proactive, customer-focused mindset. The role offers opportunities to work across distributed teams, with on-site deployments and travel as needed, in a dynamic

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional AI + software engineering experience in fast-paced environments.
• Experience with AI/ML systems and integrating LLMs or agentic workflows into real products.
• Fluency in Python and familiarity with Typescript.
• Experience with backend (FastAPI, Next.js) and frontend (React) frameworks; good UI/UX sense.
• Experience building and deploying production APIs, services, infrastructure, and data pipelines.
• Proficiency integrating third-party APIs, databases, and external systems securely.
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work with customers.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Bias for action: ship quickly, iterate fast, own 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 databases, third-party APIs, and internal tools.
• Rapidly iterate in the field with tight feedback loops to improve product fit and drive end-to-end delivery.
• Architect, build, and maintain production-grade services that scale with usage and complexity.
• Collaborate with product, research, and engineering to shape roadmap and priorities based on field findings.

Skills

Python

Typescript

Customer-facing

Communication

AI/ML systems

Field iteration

Frontend frameworks

Backend systems

Tools

FastAPI

Next.js

React

Job description

FOUNDING FORWARD DEPLOYED ENGINEER

What we're looking for:

• Individuals with impressive achievements and great technical skills, highly proficient in Python .
• Around 3 years of experience in AI with the ability to act autonomously and demonstrate real curiosity for AI.
• Customer-facing experience and comfortable working alongside a customer.
• Excellent communication skills.

About H:

H Company is a next-generation AI research and product company pioneering the future of autonomous, agentic AI. Founded to build intelligence that acts, H Company is creating the foundational infrastructure for autonomous AI systems that drive real-world outcomes across industries.

About the Team:

The Forward Deployed Team is committed to ensuring the successful implementation of our Agents to help our customer automate and optimize tasks, and allow them to focus on what really matters. The team is also responsible to shape the future vision of our products by distilling learnings from the field into the H platform.

That platform empowers a wide range of professionals and businesses to safely, easily and autonomously deploy agents at scale for a broad range of tasks: from ensuring websites behave as expected to automating repeated tasks.

Key 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

Requirements:

• 3+ years of professional AI + software engineering experience, ideally in fast-paced environments (e.g., startups, consulting, or product teams), or otherwise proven technical acumen through projects and past experiences
• Experience working with AI/ML systems, especially integrating LLMs or other agentic workflows into real products
• Heavy fluency in Python and familiarity with Typescript
• Familiarity with backend (FastAPI, Next.js…) and frontend (React…) frameworks and a good sense of UI/UX tradeoffs
• Experience building and deploying production systems: APIs, services, infrastructure, and/or 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

Location:

H's teams are distributed throughout Paris, France, London, UK, and the US.

This role can be based either in SF/Bay area-CA, Austin-TX, or NY.

What we offer:

• Be part of the founding journey of one of the most exciting AI startups shaping the future of AI and agentic systems.
• Collaborate with a fun, dynamic and multicultural team, working alongside world‑class AI engineers, researchers, and builders in a high-trust, high-impact environment.
• Enjoy a competitive compensation package, including equity.