Senior Forward Deployed Engineer AI Time Platform Equity

Laurel; San Francisco, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

401K

Bi-annual in-person off-sites

Job summary

Laurel is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to design, build, and deploy AI-powered systems for enterprise customers. You will work directly with Laureates to understand workflows, implement end-to-end solutions, and ship production-grade software that ties time data to business outcomes.

Ideal candidates have 4+ years building production systems, strong API and cloud experience, and a proven ability to operate across backend, infrastructure, and customer environments.

Qualifications

• Minimum 4+ years of experience building production software systems.
• Able to architect and ship complex systems with minimal oversight.
• Experience with APIs, distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and data-intensive apps.
• Experience with LLMs, AI agents, retrieval systems, or applied AI in production.
• Thrives in ambiguous environments and communicates clearly with both engineers and non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Understand customer workflows, constraints, and technical environments.
• Design and implement production-grade solutions across backend services, orchestration, integrations, and tooling.
• Write high-quality code across the stack: TypeScript, APIs, data pipelines, and cloud infra.
• 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 with Product and Core Engineering to turn field learnings into reusable platform capabilities.
• Prototype new functionality quickly while maintaining scalability and maintainability.
• Translate ambiguous customer needs into clear technical plans and execution paths.
• Help customers operationalize AI safely and effectively in production environments.

Skills

Strong technical fundamentals

Backend

APIs

Distributed systems

Cloud infrastructure

TypeScript

Data pipelines

Customer focus

Tools

TypeScript

APIs

Data pipelines

Cloud infrastructure

Job description

Laurel is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to design, build, and deploy AI-powered systems for enterprise customers. You will work directly with Laureates to understand workflows, implement end-to-end solutions, and ship production-grade software that ties time data to business outcomes.

Ideal candidates have 4+ years building production systems, strong API and cloud experience, and a proven ability to operate across backend, infrastructure, and customer environments.