Senior AI Deployment Engineer — Frontier LLMs

Vibehackers; San Francisco, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Hybrid work (3 days in office)

Job summary

Vibehackers is seeking a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer in San Francisco to lead end-to-end deployments of frontier models with strategic customers. You will own discovery, scoping, system design, implementation, and production rollout, partnering with customer teams to build full-stack, LLM-powered systems.

Ideal candidates have 5+ years in engineering/deployment, experience with LLMs, strong cross-functional communication, and willingness to travel up to 50%.

Qualifications

• 5+ years engineering or deployment experience.
• Experience with LLMs or generative models.
• Strong communication with stakeholders.
• Hybrid work in San Francisco with 3 days in the office.
• Willing to relocate; travel up to 50%.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical delivery across deployments from prototype to production.
• Build full-stack systems delivering customer value.
• Embed with customer teams to understand needs and guide adoption.
• Scope work, sequence delivery, and manage trade-offs.
• Contribute code when needed and create reusable tools.
• Share field feedback to inform Research and Product teams.

Skills

System design

Full-stack dev

Production deployment

Technical scoping

Customer engagement

Cross-functional collaboration

Job description

Vibehackers is seeking a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer in San Francisco to lead end-to-end deployments of frontier models with strategic customers. You will own discovery, scoping, system design, implementation, and production rollout, partnering with customer teams to build full-stack, LLM-powered systems.

Ideal candidates have 5+ years in engineering/deployment, experience with LLMs, strong cross-functional communication, and willingness to travel up to 50%.