Staff AI Engineer - Forward-Deployed, Production Workflows

Hims & Hers; United States; Remote; USD 170,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary + equity

Unlimited PTO

Health benefits

ESPP

401k

Offsite retreats

Job summary

Hims & Hers is seeking a Staff Forward Deployed Engineer to apply AI to business workflows. You will embed with a function, map its current processes, and ship AI-powered workflows that scale across the company.

You will work across teams to prioritize opportunities, deliver production systems, and measure impact on revenue, costs, and efficiency. A strong full-stack background and cloud tooling are essential for success in this role.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Strong Python, plus backend or fullstack depth in one or more of Node.js, Kotlin, Java, Go, React, TypeScript, or mobile.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS, Docker, Kubernetes), CI/CD workflows, and SQL.
• Working knowledge of LLMs and agentic patterns: prompt engineering, tool use, RAG and retrieval, context management, evaluation and observability, and agent orchestration with frameworks like MCP, LangChain, or similar.
• The ability to get productive fast in codebases and domains you have never worked in.

Responsibilities

• Embed with a team to understand how they operate and map current workflows.
• Identify where time, handoffs, rework, and manual effort occur.
• Prioritize AI opportunities that move outcomes and align with the team on what to tackle.
• Build production-grade AI-powered workflows with the team and platform.
• Scale proven solutions into reusable capabilities across the organization.
• Own outcomes by measuring business results like revenue, cost savings, cycle time, and reduced manual work.

Skills

Python

Backend development

Fullstack

Cloud infrastructure

CI/CD

SQL

LLMs

Agent patterns

Communication

Adaptability

Tools

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

LangChain

MCP

n8n

Zapier

Temporal

Job description

Hims & Hers is seeking a Staff Forward Deployed Engineer to apply AI to business workflows. You will embed with a function, map its current processes, and ship AI-powered workflows that scale across the company.

You will work across teams to prioritize opportunities, deliver production systems, and measure impact on revenue, costs, and efficiency. A strong full-stack background and cloud tooling are essential for success in this role.