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True Talent Solutions Partners

Founding Forward Deployed Engineer

San Francisco
Salary
$175,000 - $255,000 annually
Level
Mid
Work type
On-site · San Francisco
Visa
Not offered

Open. First seen 25 October 2026.

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About the role

About the Role

Join an early-stage AI company building tools for procurement and supply chain operations. You will work directly with manufacturing customers to scope and deploy AI-powered workflows, while helping shape how the company delivers reliable customer solutions.

What You'll Do

  • Build relationships with customer IT, supply chain, and procurement teams to identify and scope new workflows.
  • Develop and ship production code in enterprise customer environments, creating solutions that can scale across deployments.
  • Lead technical deployments from discovery through go-live and take ownership of operational outcomes.
  • Travel to customer facilities, including internationally, to work alongside operators and support adoption.
  • Share insights from customer deployments with platform engineers to improve future implementations.

What We're Looking For

  • One to five years of customer-facing full-stack or forward-deployed engineering experience, with the ability to deliver production systems independently.
  • Experience gathering technical requirements, translating ambiguous customer needs into specifications, and building and shipping end-to-end workflow or automation deployments.
  • Strong skills with Python or a similar language, SQL, APIs, and complex enterprise data; familiarity with ERP systems, large language models, AI agents, or supply chain platforms is useful.
  • A track record of owning direct customer deployments and production outcomes, and identifying new use cases within existing accounts.
  • Clear communication, sound technical judgment, and comfort working without established playbooks or extensive process.
  • Strong computer science fundamentals and interest or experience in manufacturing, industrial, or supply chain environments.
  • Ability to travel internationally approximately 15% to 30% of the time, including to Europe and Asia.
  • Must be a U.S. citizen or permanent resident. Visa sponsorship is not available.

Compensation & Benefits

Base salary: $175,000 to $255,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is not available.

Location

On-site, five days per week in San Francisco, California, with regular customer travel.

What this role asks for

Particular to this role

SQL

Rare in True Talent Solutions Partners's other 122 open postings.

Standard for solutions / sales engineering roles

Python

Common in solutions / sales engineering postings at any company.

Compared with True Talent Solutions Partners's other open jobs.

The team: Client Roles

This role is one of 121 open in Client Roles. 121 were posted in the last 30 days, including 6 lead roles: the team is hiring the people who run it too.

WHAT THE TEAM WORKS WITH, ACROSS ITS POSTINGS

Python (65 of 121), LLM (48 of 121), TypeScript (47 of 121), React (38 of 121), Machine Learning (31 of 121), AWS (27 of 121), JavaScript (27 of 121)

OTHER ROLES ON THIS TEAM

From the team and dates on True Talent Solutions Partners's own job board.

Other openings for this role

3 open postings for this role in San Francisco, first posted 25 October 2026. The company is likely hiring for more than one position. None has been taken down and posted again.

Salary context

20 other open postings titled Founding Forward Deployed Engineer state a salary: median USD 160,000 to USD 250,000 a year.

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