Senior Forward-Deployed AI Engineer

Emploive; San Francisco, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 221,000 - 275,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

401K

Job summary

Laurel, the AI Time platform, is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to design, build, and deploy AI-powered systems for enterprise customers. You will own deployments end-to-end and work across backend services, data pipelines, and cloud infrastructure to deliver measurable impact.

You will collaborate with Product and Core Engineering to convert field learnings into reusable platform capabilities, while navigating ambiguity and delivering production-quality results for clients.

Qualifications

• Minimum 4+ years of experience building production software systems.
• Experience across backend, infrastructure, integrations, and customer environments.
• Ability to independently architect and ship complex systems.
• Experience with APIs, distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and data-intensive apps.
• Experience with LLMs, AI agents, retrieval systems, or orchestration in production.

Responsibilities

• Understand operational workflows with customers and Laureates.
• Design and implement production-grade solutions across backend services, orchestration layers, integrations, and internal tooling.
• Write high-quality code across the stack — typically TypeScript, APIs, data pipelines, and cloud infrastructure.
• Own deployments end-to-end: discovery, architecture, implementation, testing, rollout, monitoring, and iteration.
• Debug complex issues across customer systems, infrastructure, authentication, APIs, and data pipelines.
• Collaborate closely with Product and Core Engineering to turn field learnings into reusable platform capabilities.
• Rapidly prototype new functionality while maintaining scalability and maintainability.
• Translate ambiguous customer needs into clear technical plans and execution paths.

Skills

Production software

Backend & infrastructure

APIs & distributed systems

LLMs in production

Stakeholder communication

Job description

Laurel, the AI Time platform, is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to design, build, and deploy AI-powered systems for enterprise customers. You will own deployments end-to-end and work across backend services, data pipelines, and cloud infrastructure to deliver measurable impact.

You will collaborate with Product and Core Engineering to convert field learnings into reusable platform capabilities, while navigating ambiguity and delivering production-quality results for clients.