Frontline AI Deployment Engineer (Customer-Facing)

CommodityAI; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive base salary

Early-stage equity

Health, dental, and vision insurance

Direct collaboration with foundingteam

Job summary

CommodityAI is building the operating system for the global commodities industry, enabling real-time interpretation of trade data and automated operations. We are expanding our forward deployed team in San Francisco to onboard customers quickly, translate real-world operations into software, and convert unique implementations into product.

As the first Forward Deployed Engineer, you will own the customer journey from sales handoff to stable production, working directly with the founders to

Qualifications

• 3+ years in forward deployed, solutions, implementation, or customer-facing product engineering, ideally at an early-stage company.
• Deeply embedded in AI tooling: actively automating and building with agents in your own work.
• Practical coding: read, write, and debug Python or TypeScript, and you are fluent with APIs, structured data, and system dependencies.
• You run several concurrent deployments without dropping details.
• You have carried at least one deployment from onboarding through implementation, go-live, and stabilization.

Responsibilities

• Own Deployments End to End: Take customers live during the opening weeks of a paid pilot, owning success criteria, UAT, go-live, and production stability.
• Work Onsite With Customers: Run kickoffs, training sessions, and working sessions at customer offices across the US, Europe, and Asia.
• Translate Messy Operations: Run discovery across trading, logistics, finance, and compliance, then turn ambiguous workflows into data models, business rules, integrations, and human approval steps.
• Deploy Production AI/LLM Workflows: Configure, evaluate, and tune agents against real customer data, deciding where an agent belongs, where deterministic logic is safer, and where a human has to review.
• Execute Hands-On: Write and troubleshoot practical Python and TypeScript, and inspect APIs, payloads, logs, and document outputs to diagnose issues in production.
• Build the Function: Create the tooling, templates, and playbooks that let the FDE team we build behind you deploy faster, and feed recurring customer needs back into the core product.

Skills

Python

TypeScript

APIs

AI tooling

End-to-end ownership

Customer-facing

Job description

CommodityAI is building the operating system for the global commodities industry, enabling real-time interpretation of trade data and automated operations. We are expanding our forward deployed team in San Francisco to onboard customers quickly, translate real-world operations into software, and convert unique implementations into product.

As the first Forward Deployed Engineer, you will own the customer journey from sales handoff to stable production, working directly with the founders to