Senior Forward Deployed Software Engineer

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

Job summary

Dynamism in San Francisco is seeking a Senior Forward Deployed Software Engineer to own deployment infrastructure for partner environments and evaluative data pipelines. You will design software layers beneath deployments, delivering repeatable, reliable infrastructure at scale.

You will lead multi-disciplinary work with frontier model teams, research and data professionals, and customers, balancing speed with precision and rigorous engineering standards.

Qualifications

• Experience designing deployment architectures and reusable patterns.
• Ability to own outcomes in high-agency environments and startups.
• Proven cross-functional collaboration with research, data, and partner teams.

Responsibilities

• Architect deployment services, integrations, and evaluation tooling.
• Lead the most complex partner deployments from discovery to reliable delivery.
• Ensure reliability, performance, and observability at scale during training/evaluation.
• Define technical standards and reusable patterns for deployment engineers.
• Handle escalations where correctness and turnaround time matter.
• Collaborate with frontier model researchers and demanding customers.
• Build deployment, data, or research infrastructure under rapidly changing requirements.

Skills

Architecture design

Deployment engineering

Cross-functional collaboration

AI/evaluation infrastructure

Technical leadership

Communication

Startup experience

Systems thinking

Job description

Senior Forward Deployed Software Engineer

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 behavior 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.

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

The Role

You will lead the software layer beneath complex partner deployments, deciding how bespoke environment, data, and evaluation work becomes repeatable infrastructure. The role combines architecture, hands‑on delivery, research judgment, and close collaboration with frontier model teams.

What You'll Own

• Architecture for deployment services, integrations, environment runtimes, and evaluation tooling
• The most complex partner deployments from technical discovery through reliable delivery
• Reliability, performance, and observability where training and evaluation work runs at scale
• Technical standards and reusable patterns that other deployment engineers can build on
• Escalations where correctness, research validity, and turnaround time all matter
• 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 behavior, or simulated environments
• Collaborated directly with frontier model researchers or demanding technical customers
• Built deployment, data, or research infrastructure under rapidly changing requirementsCompensation: $350K to $450K base salary plus meaningful equity
• 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.