Founding Forward Deployed Engineer
- Salary
- $175,000 - $255,000 annually
- Level
- Mid
- Work type
- On-site · San Francisco
- Visa
- Not offered
Open. First seen 4 November 2026.
About the role
About the Role
Join the customer-facing engineering team at an AI company serving manufacturing and supply chain operations. You will build and deploy AI-powered workflows with customers, taking solutions from discovery through production and helping shape the deployment approach as the team grows.
What You'll Do
- Work with customer IT, procurement, and supply chain teams to identify and scope new workflows and use cases.
- Build and ship production code in customer environments, designing solutions that can scale across deployments.
- Lead technical deployments from discovery through go-live and own outcomes such as inventory, sourcing efficiency, and forecast accuracy.
- Travel to customer facilities, including internationally, to work alongside operators and support adoption.
- Bring customer feedback and field learnings to platform engineering to improve future deployments.
What We're Looking For
- One to five years of customer-facing full-stack or forward-deployed engineering experience, with a strong software engineering foundation.
- Experience owning customer deployments and shipping production systems in enterprise environments at a growth-stage technology company.
- Ability to clarify ambiguous problems, gather technical requirements, scope end-to-end workflows, and deliver solutions to production.
- Working knowledge of Python or a similar language, SQL, APIs, enterprise data, and related systems such as ERP platforms.
- Comfort working independently in an early-stage environment, communicating clearly, and identifying additional use cases with customers.
- Exposure to manufacturing, industrial, or supply chain operations is valuable. A strong computer science foundation is expected.
- Willingness to travel internationally, primarily to Europe and Asia, approximately 15% to 30% of the time.
Compensation & Benefits
Base salary: $175,000 to $255,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is not available.
Location
On-site in San Francisco, California, five days per week.
What this role asks for
Particular to this role
SQL
Rare in True Talent Solutions Partners's other 125 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 126 open in Client Roles. 126 were posted in the last 30 days, including 7 lead roles: the team is hiring the people who run it too.
WHAT THE TEAM WORKS WITH, ACROSS ITS POSTINGS
Python (66 of 126), LLM (48 of 126), TypeScript (44 of 126), React (39 of 126), Machine Learning (33 of 126), JavaScript (28 of 126), AWS (25 of 126)
OTHER ROLES ON THIS TEAM
- Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure posted Nov 4
- Agent Product Engineer posted Nov 4
- Forward Deployed Engineer posted Nov 4
- Product Engineer, AI posted Nov 4
- Sales Engineer posted Nov 4
- Forward Deployed Engineer posted Nov 4
- Founding Engineer, Applied AI posted Nov 4
- Machine Learning Engineer posted Nov 4
- Forward Deployed Engineer posted Nov 4
- Product Engineer posted Nov 4
- Senior Full Stack Engineer posted Nov 4
- Full Stack Engineer posted Nov 4
- Mid/Senior Full Stack AI Engineer posted Nov 4
- Senior Software Engineer, Backend posted Nov 4
- Forward Deployed Product Manager posted Nov 4
- Senior Software Engineer, Autonomous Systems posted Nov 4
- Engineering Lead posted Nov 4
- Senior Solutions Engineer, Digital Native and Mid-Market posted Nov 4
- Staff Product Manager posted Nov 4
- Director of Engineering posted Nov 4
- Founding Product Designer posted Nov 4
- Product Engineer posted Nov 4
- Senior Mechanical Engineer posted Nov 4
- Infrastructure Engineer posted Nov 4
- Solutions Engineer posted Nov 4
- Principal Software Engineer, Perception posted Nov 4
- Technical Product Manager posted Nov 4
- Senior Forward Deployed Engineer posted Nov 4
- Member of Technical Staff, Senior posted Nov 4
- Research Engineer, Evals posted Nov 4
- Member of Technical Staff, ML Systems posted Nov 4
- Founding Product Engineer posted Nov 4
- Software Engineer, C++ Systems posted Nov 4
- Founding Senior Engineer posted Nov 4
- Frontend Engineer posted Nov 4
- Founding Forward Deployed Engineer posted Nov 4
- Founding AI Engineer posted Nov 4
- Robotics Software Engineer posted Nov 4
- Forward Deployed Engineer posted Nov 4
- Founding ML Research Engineer posted Nov 4
- Member of Technical Staff, Compiler posted Nov 4
- Senior Platform Engineer posted Nov 3
- Founding Engineer posted Nov 3
- AI Scheduler posted Nov 3
- Product Manager, Supply Chain posted Nov 3
- Product Engineer, Mid-Senior posted Nov 3
- Product Lead posted Nov 3
- Founding Forward Deployed Engineer posted Nov 3
- Lead Product Engineer posted Nov 3
- Founding Full-Stack Engineer posted Nov 3
- Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, Operate posted Nov 3
- Product Manager, Product Growth posted Nov 3
- Software Engineer, iOS posted Nov 3
- Electrical & Computer Engineer posted Nov 3
- Founding Backend Software Engineer posted Nov 3
- Founding AI Agent Engineer posted Nov 3
- Founding Product Engineer posted Nov 3
- Senior Product Manager posted Nov 3
- Senior Member of Technical Staff, Agent Platform posted Nov 3
- Software Engineer, Infrastructure posted Nov 3
- Forward Deployed Software Engineer, Tactical Edge posted Nov 3
- Software Engineer, RL Environments posted Nov 3
- Founding Backend & Infrastructure Engineer posted Nov 3
- Founding Reinforcement Learning Engineer posted Nov 3
- Senior Quantitative Developer posted Nov 3
- Founding Forward Deployed Engineer posted Nov 3
- Senior Engineering Manager posted Nov 3
- Full-Stack Software Engineer posted Nov 3
- Founding Engineer, Forward Deployed posted Nov 3
- Full Stack Engineer posted Nov 3
- Senior Data & Machine Learning Engineer posted Nov 3
- AI-Native Electrical Engineer posted Nov 3
- Senior/Staff Full Stack Engineer posted Nov 3
- Founding Engineer posted Nov 3
- Product Engineer posted Nov 3
- Lead Platform Engineer posted Nov 3
- Full-Stack Engineer, Agent Evaluation & Reliability posted Nov 3
- Senior/Staff Product Engineer, Applied AI posted Nov 3
- Senior Control Electronics Engineer posted Nov 3
- Lead Software Engineer, Platform posted Nov 3
- Fullstack Software Engineer posted Nov 3
- Product Manager, AI Platform posted Nov 2
- Agent Deployment Engineer posted Nov 2
- Engineering Manager, Agents posted Nov 2
- Founding Fullstack Engineer posted Nov 2
- Lead Platform Engineer posted Nov 2
- Founding Product Designer posted Nov 2
- Founding PLM Solutions Engineer posted Nov 2
- Forward Deployed Engineer posted Nov 2
- Software Engineer posted Nov 2
- Design Engineer posted Nov 2
- Research Crawling Engineer posted Nov 2
- Senior/Staff Software Engineer posted Nov 2
- Software Engineer, AI Agents posted Nov 2
- Senior Full-Stack Engineer posted Nov 2
- Senior Power Electronics Engineer posted Nov 2
- Software Engineer, Marketplace posted Nov 2
- Engineering Manager posted Nov 2
- Senior AI/ML Engineer posted Nov 2
- Mechanical Engineer posted Nov 2
- Computer Vision ML / Research Engineer posted Nov 2
- Senior Software Engineer posted Nov 2
- Forward Deployed Engineer posted Nov 2
- Founding Product Designer posted Nov 2
- Member of Technical Staff, Applied Researcher posted Nov 2
- Senior Security Engineer posted Nov 2
- Senior Software Engineer posted Nov 2
- Engineering Manager posted Nov 1
- Member of Technical Staff posted Nov 1
- Technical Recruiter posted Nov 1
- Product Manager, AI Education posted Nov 1
- Agent Deployment Engineer posted Nov 1
- Forward Deployed Engineer posted Nov 1
- Brand & Identity / Presentation Designer posted Nov 1
- Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer posted Nov 1
- Founding Engineer posted Nov 1
- Full-Stack Product Engineer posted Nov 1
- Senior ML / AI Engineer posted Nov 1
- Director of Engineering posted Nov 1
- GTM Engineer posted Nov 1
- Forward Deployed Engineer posted Nov 1
- Senior / Staff Product Engineer posted Nov 1
- Member of Technical Staff posted Nov 1
- Senior Analog/Mixed Signal Engineer posted Nov 1
- Forward Deployed Product Manager posted Nov 1
From the team and dates on True Talent Solutions Partners's own job board.
Posting history
Reposted 8 times since 25 October 2026: a posting for this role in San Francisco was taken down and the role was posted again.
- 4 November 2026 – open (this posting)
- 4 November 2026 – open
- 3 November 2026 – closed 4 November 2026
- 2 November 2026 – closed 3 November 2026
- 31 October 2026 – closed 1 November 2026
- 30 October 2026 – closed 31 October 2026
- 29 October 2026 – closed 30 October 2026
- 29 October 2026 – closed 1 November 2026
- 28 October 2026 – closed 29 October 2026
- 27 October 2026 – closed 29 October 2026
Salary context
12 other open postings titled Founding Forward Deployed Engineer state a salary: median USD 180,000 to USD 250,000 a year.
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