True Talent Solutions Partners

Founding Forward Deployed Engineer

San Francisco
Salary
$180,000 - $230,000 annually
Level
Mid
Work type
On-site · San Francisco
Visa
Not offered

Open. First seen 2 November 2026.

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About the role

About the Role

Join an early-stage AI customer success software team as its founding Forward Deployed Engineer. You will work directly with enterprise customers to bring AI agents into production, deliver measurable value, and turn field learnings into product improvements.

What You'll Do

  • Embed with customers to understand onboarding, adoption, and renewal workflows, then identify where AI agents can help.
  • Configure and deploy customer agents, connect data sources such as BigQuery and Salesforce, and set up SSO and integrations.
  • Build evaluations using customer data, assess agent quality, and iterate until deployments meet quality standards.
  • Partner with go-to-market teams to support sales, account activation, and expansion as the technical lead.
  • Bring customer feedback into the product and improve the platform when it limits successful deployments.
  • Debug production deployments, investigate root causes, and deliver focused solutions that prove value.

What We're Looking For

  • Three to seven years in customer-facing software engineering, forward-deployed engineering, or solutions engineering, including ownership of technical customer rollouts.
  • Hands-on experience building and deploying LLM agents with customers, including prompts, evaluations, and complex, long-running agents.
  • Strong Python and FastAPI backend skills, plus React frontend experience; familiarity with PostgreSQL, RAG, CI/CD, and agent frameworks is relevant.
  • Experience in an early-stage, high-growth startup and customer-facing deployments; a mix of larger-company and startup experience is valued.
  • Strong computer science fundamentals, stable role tenure, and evidence of recent career growth.

Compensation & Benefits

Base salary is $180,000 to $230,000 annually. Equity is offered. Visa sponsorship is not available.

Location

Hybrid in San Francisco, California.

What this role asks for

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 129 open in Client Roles. 129 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 (70 of 129), LLM (43 of 129), TypeScript (42 of 129), React (37 of 129), AWS (29 of 129), Machine Learning (28 of 129), JavaScript (26 of 129)

OTHER ROLES ON THIS TEAM

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

Posting history

Reposted 6 times since 25 October 2026: a posting for this role in San Francisco was taken down and the role was posted again.

Salary context

10 other open postings titled Founding Forward Deployed Engineer state a salary: median USD 170,000 to USD 250,000 a year.

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