Forward Deployed Engineer

About the Role

This is a founding engineer opportunity at an early-stage AI infrastructure startup building an agentic integration platform. You will own core systems end-to-end alongside the founders, shaping the engineering foundation that every future hire builds on. The work is high-stakes and high-autonomy: real agents doing real work with real consequences in production.

What You'll Do

• Own the agent platform, infrastructure, and integrations runtime end-to-end.
• Set the engineering patterns and architectural decisions that define the entire codebase going forward.
• Ship to production constantly, working directly with the founding team.
• Help shape the system holistically across agent orchestration, durable execution, and self-healing infrastructure in your first year.

What We're Looking For

• 2 to 9 years of professional software engineering experience, excluding staff, principal, lead, or manager titles at large companies.
• Strong CS fundamentals from a rigorous technical degree program (Bachelor's, Master's, or PhD, completed or in progress).
• Experience founding a startup or engineering at an early-stage (pre-seed through Series A) venture-backed company; candidates whose entire career has been at large tech, enterprise, consulting, or agency environments are not a fit.
• Proven track record of shipping and owning real production systems end-to-end, multiple times.
• Comfortable working across the full stack with TypeScript, React, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, and AWS.
• Familiarity with the Effect-TS or Bun ecosystem is a plus.
• At ease using AI coding agents while exercising strong judgment over production quality.
• Based in the San Francisco Bay Area or US-based with a concrete, dated plan to relocate to San Francisco for five-days-a-week on-site work.

Compensation & Benefits

• Salary: $150,000 to $250,000 USD annually.
• Visa sponsorship is available where an O-1 visa is a realistic path.

Location

On-site, five days a week in San Francisco, CA, United States.