Founding Forward Deployed Engineer - US

H Company; United States; Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Competitive compensation

Job summary

H Company is hiring a Founding Forward Deployed Engineer to design and implement autonomous AI solutions for customer deployments. You will work closely with product, research, and engineering teams to translate field learnings into scalable platform capabilities.

The role emphasizes delivering production-grade services, integrating with customer systems, and operating across frontend/back-end stacks, with travel to on-site deployments as needed. Strong Python and TS skills are essential.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional AI + software engineering experience in fast-paced environments
• Experience with AI/ML systems, especially integrating LLMs into real products
• Heavy fluency in Python and familiarity with Typescript
• Experience building and deploying production systems: APIs, services, infrastructure, data pipelines
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to thrive in ambiguous, customer-facing environments
• Excellent written and verbal communication; willingness to travel for on-site deployments or customer engagements

Responsibilities

• Understand and identify customer’s most important multi-step task to automate
• Seamlessly integrate with customer systems and external tools and databases
• Iterate in the field with tight feedback loops to improve product fit
• Architect, build, and maintain production-grade services that scale
• Collaborate with product, research, and engineering to shape roadmap based on field findings

Skills

Python

Typescript

FastAPI

Next.js

React

APIs

Data pipelines

LLMs

Problem solving

Communication

Travel

Tools

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.