Member of Technical Staff (FDE)

Codesearch AI; New York (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision

Meal stipend

Unlimited PTO

Job summary

Codesearch AI in New York City seeks a forward deployed engineer to join a fast-moving platform team. You’ll translate customer requests into tangible data tools, dashboards, and interfaces on short cycles, and you’ll help decide what belongs in the core product.

This full-time on-site role reports to a founder and collaborates with researchers and platform engineers. You’ll ship quickly, extend data gathering and tooling, and keep customers at the center of the roadmap.

Qualifications

• 2-5 years shipping production software - full-stack, backend or founding engineer.
• Experience in fast-paced environments shipping meaningful work.
• Technical degree in computer science or a STEM field.

Responsibilities

• Take customer requests, scope, build, deliver, and hand off quickly.
• Convert expert-produced data into exact customer-spec data outputs.
• Provide usable interfaces quickly (dashboards, portals, internal tools).
• Extend data-gathering systems, often with temporary plugins or fixes.
• Flag recurring requests and advocate for productization.
• Collaborate with research and platform engineers to shape the roadmap.

Skills

TypeScript

Python

Go

Customer-facing

Full-stack

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/STEM

Job description

A forward deployed role at the very frontier of AI.

Work that has impact with customers in days. A very well-funded team whose customers are the ones pushing the limits of what models can do.

Our client builds the environments that advanced AI systems learn from. Their customers move quickly and ask for things that do not wait.

The platform team needs to stay on the platform. It only works if someone else can absorb what comes in from customers: a dataset shaped a particular way, a set of tasks written to a spec, a quick interface, a feature that has to exist by the end of the week. That is this role. You will spend your time closing the gap between what has been built and what a customer actually needs, and you will be the one who notices when the same request keeps arriving and belongs in the core product instead.

This is not the classic embedded forward deployed seat. There is no six‑month implementation. The work is short‑cycle and varied - build, research, script, ship, move on.

What You'll Be Doing

• Take whatever lands from a customer and get it done on a short clock: scope it, build it, put it in their hands, move on
• Turn expert-produced data into something that matches a customer's spec exactly
• Put a usable interface in front of a customer fast when they need to see or steer something, whether that is a dashboard, a portal or a throwaway internal tool
• Extend the systems that gather data, often with a small plugin or a fix you fully expect to delete later, so the right material reaches the right place
• Flag the request you are answering for the third time and argue for making it part of the product rather than a standing job
• Stay close to the research team and the platform engineers, so what customers keep asking for shapes the roadmap instead of disappearing into one‑off work

What You'll Need

• 2-5 years shipping production software - full‑stack, backend or founding engineer. Titles matter less than what you have put live
• You have worked somewhere genuinely fast‑paced and shipped something that mattered there. The strongest pattern is learning the craft somewhere larger first, then going and using it somewhere small. Running your own company for a real stretch counts too
• Strong TypeScript and Python, with the range to pick up Go and work across a cloud stack
• Comfortable in front of a customer: you can take a vague request, ask the question that sharpens it, and come back with something that works
• A technical degree - computer science or a STEM subject.

Bonus

• Exposure to reinforcement learning, evals or AI research. Useful rather than required, though it is the part of this job that is hardest to pick up as you go
• Time spent founding something of your own and sticking with it
• Comfort moving between languages and systems you have not written before

The Person

You like finishing things. You would rather ship five useful things this month than one perfect thing this quarter, and you know which situation you are in. You ask good questions instead of waiting for a complete spec. And when the same request turns up for the third time, you are the one who says it should be part of the product.

The Role

• Full-time, New York City - on-site
• Fully covered medical, dental and vision, a daily meal stipend and unlimited PTO
• You'll report to a founder and work most closely with the existing forward deployed engineer (more incoming) and the research team, with the core platform engineers alongside.