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  • Founding Forward Deployed Engineer

    True Talent Solutions Partners

    California, CA

    • $187,000 to $225,000 USD / year

    - Two to five years of experience as a software engineer or forward deployed engineer, with a record of shipping production software.

  • Founding Product Engineer

    Raydar

    San Francisco, CA

    - Experience in forward-deployed, solutions or sales engineering roles selling to technical buyers.

  • Founding Forward Deployed Engineer

    True Talent Solutions Partners

    San Francisco, CA

    • $180,000 to $230,000 USD / year

    Join an early-stage AI customer success software team as a Founding Forward Deployed Engineer. You will work directly with enterprise customers to put AI agents into production, deliver…

  • Founding Forward Deployed Engineer

    Clera

    San Francisco, CA

    • $130,000 to $215,000 USD / year

    Join an early-stage government technology team building AI-powered tools for sensitive investigative workflows. As a founding forward deployed engineer, you will work directly with law…

  • Senior Forward Deployed Engineer

    Raydar

    San Francisco, CA

    - Earlier founding or client-embedded engineering work at a well-regarded AI firm.

  • Forward Deployed Engineer

    True Talent Solutions Partners

    San Francisco, CA

    • $160,000 to $275,000 USD / year

    - Forward deployed, solutions engineering, solutions architecture, or customer-facing engineering experience that includes hands-on software development.

  • Senior Forward Deployed Engineer

    JeffreyM Consulting

    San Francisco, CA

    We are looking for a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer with 2–6 years of experience to own our client's deployments at some of the largest chip companies in the world. You're a highly…

  • Founding AI Engineer

    Daylight Infrastructure

    San Francisco, CA

    …energy infrastructure development and software. We’re hiring a founding AI engineer to build the core intelligence layer of our…

  • Forward-Deployed Engineer, Earth Observation

    The Compression Company

    San Francisco, CA

    Salary: $180k–$240k Equity: Founding equity with meaningful ownership Full relocation & visa support

  • Deployment Architect / Forward Deployed Engineer

    Champ AI

    San Francisco, CA

    We're looking for a Deployment Architect / Forward Deployed Engineer to own the path from "first customer call" to "signed contract and live in production." You'll sit next to our…

  • Founding Mechanical Integration Engineer - Forward Deployed

    Greenlight Robotics

    San Francisco, CA

    We are looking for a Mechanical Integration Engineer to step into a forward-deployed engineering role. Reporting directly to our Co-founder & CTO, you will design the mounts, interfaces,…

  • Founding Engineer

    Bubble Sort Recruiting

    San Francisco, CA

    • $120,000 to $200,000 USD / year

    1 -​ 4 years of experience as a full stack,​ backend,​ or forward deployed engineer

  • Founding Forward Deployed Engineer

    True Talent Solutions Partners

    San Francisco, CA

    • $175,000 to $255,000 USD / year

    - One to five years of customer-facing full-stack or forward-deployed engineering experience, with a strong software engineering foundation.

  • Forward Deployed Engineer - Public Sector

    Reflection

    San Francisco, CA

    Forward Deployed Engineers are Reflection’s technical owners in every customer engagement. You will own the technical execution of strategic engagements end to end, from discovery and…

  • Founding Engineer, Forward Deployed

    True Talent Solutions Partners

    San Francisco, CA

    • $150,000 USD / year

    - Experience working directly with customers and presenting technical work to non-technical buyers, such as in forward-deployed, solutions, sales engineering, or customer-facing engineering…

  • Forward Deployed Engineer

    Raydar

    San Francisco, CA

    - Customer-facing engineering experience, such as forward deployed, solutions or sales engineering, or working directly with customers as a founding engineer.

  • Forward Deployed Engineer – Enterprise AI Infrastructure (On-site SF)

    Morgan Pinnacle Group

    San Francisco, CA

    This is a founding Forward Deployed Engineer role at a fast-growing, Series B AI infrastructure company with approximately 75 employees that has raised more than $100 million in funding.…

  • Founding Forward Deployed Engineer (USA)

    Pear VC

    Palo Alto, CA

    You are a software engineer who works directly with our customers. You will be deployed inside practices, clinics and hospitals in New York, understand how doctors and staff actually work,…

  • All Levels: Product Engineer

    Hadrian Automation

    San Francisco Bay Area, CA · Torrance, CA

    • $223,000 to $359,000 USD / year

    - Founder or founding engineer experience. You’ve taken a new product from 0 to 1.

  • Staff Product Manager

    Flip

    Playa Vista, CA

    Background as a Forward Deployed Engineer, Founding PM, or engineer who moved into product

  • Software Engineer - Backend

    Manifold Industries

    San Francisco, CA

    Collaborate across engineering: Work closely with our Founding Engineer on domain-specific capabilities, Forward Deployed Engineers on customer requirements, and Platform Engineers on…

  • Staff Software Engineer (AI Agents)

    Traba

    San Francisco, CA

    • $240,000 to $300,000 USD / year

    …product runs on. We're seeking an entrepreneurial Staff Software Engineer (AI Agents) to join as a founding member of the Agents team and lead the development of Traba's agentic platform -…

  • Senior Software Engineer (AI Agents)

    Traba

    San Francisco, CA

    • $200,000 to $240,000 USD / year

    …product runs on. We're seeking an entrepreneurial Senior AI Agent Engineer to join as a founding member of the Agents team and build the next layer of Traba's product - an agentic platform…

  • Technical Lead, SWE

    Kastle

    San Francisco, CA

    This is a player-coach role: roughly half your time writing and reviewing code, half designing systems, mentoring, and partnering with product, forward-deployed engineering, and customers.

  • Software Engineer - Applications

    Elorian

    Palo Alto, CA

    - Full-Lifecycle Ownership: A builder mindset with a bias for shipping quickly. Experience as a founding engineer, startup core contributor, or forward-deployed engineer is highly valued.