Senior Forward Deployed Engineer

dynamism; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 350,000 - 450,000; Full time

Job summary

Dynamism is hiring a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer to own the most complex partner deployments end to end, and to set the technical bar for environments, evaluations, and reliability. This on-site role is based in San Francisco or New York and requires hands-on ownership from day one.

You will collaborate with researchers and customers, shape deployment infrastructure, and drive credible results that inform frontier model behaviour.

Responsibilities

• Own the hardest partner deployments end to end.
• Set the technical bar for how the team understands requests, builds environments and evaluations, and reports results.
• Establish standards for failure analysis, observability, and partner communication.
• Handle escalations where research validity, delivery speed, and precision matter.
• Build reusable systems and patterns to raise deployment quality across the team.

Job description

Senior Forward Deployed Engineer
Full time · San Francisco or New York · On site

Compensation: $350K to $450K base salary plus meaningful equity

Location: San Francisco or New York, on site

At Dynamism, we partner with breakout startups backed by Sequoia, a16z, and Y Combinator to help them hire engineers with founder energy, people who build fast, think like owners, and thrive in zero to one environments.

We're hiring for this role at an early stage applied AI company building high fidelity environments, tasks, data, and evaluation infrastructure that help frontier models learn reliable behaviour in real work. The company works closely with frontier AI labs and enterprises, and is backed by Sequoia Capital, Menlo Ventures, BCV, and SV Angel. Its engineering first team brings together former founders, researchers, and deeply technical builders who value speed with rigor, truth over comfort, and precision under pressure.

The Role

You will own the hardest partner deployments end to end and set the technical bar for how the team understands requests, builds environments and evaluations, closes failure modes, and reports what the work reveals about frontier model behaviour. You will be accountable for both immediate delivery and the systems that make the next engagement stronger.

What You'll Own

• The most complex partner deployments from research question through validated artifact


• Technical judgment where the environment, reward, data, and model can each be the limiting factor


• Standards for failure analysis, quality review, observability, and partner communication


• Escalations where research validity, delivery speed, and operational precision all matter


• Reusable systems and patterns that raise the quality of every deployment engineer's work


• Have founded a company, worked as an early engineer, or owned outcomes in a high agency environment


• Are a technical generalist who can cross engineering, research, data, and partner-facing work


• Can communicate with clarity while priorities and context change quickly


• Use AI agents deeply while retaining your own technical taste and judgment


• Think in systems and move quickly without sacrificing detail or reliability


• Built or led an early stage company


• Worked on AI evaluations, post-training, model behaviour, or simulated environments


• Collaborated directly with frontier model researchers or demanding technical customers


• Built deployment, data, or research infrastructure under rapidly changing requirements


• Compensation: $350K to $450K base salary plus meaningful equity


• Location: San Francisco or New York, on site


• Full time and on site

This role will not suit someone looking for routine, a narrow technical silo, or a management only position. The team moves quickly, expects direct ownership, and does not trade quality for speed.