6h ago

Founding Forward Deployed Engineer

NYC (NY) or San Francisco (CA)

$160k-$210k / yearest.

full-timemidai-ml

🛠 Tech Stack

💼 About This Role

You'll work with customers to design and deploy integrations of Linkup's AI-ready search APIs. Your core impact will be shaping the product roadmap and GTM strategy through technical insights. This role bridges engineering and customer success at a fast-moving AI startup.

🎯 What You'll Do

  • Design, prototype, and deploy API integrations for customers.
  • Participate in pre-sales technical discovery and proof-of-concept design.
  • Collaborate with backend, ML, and product teams on performance and reliability.
  • Translate customer learnings into automation, tutorials, and playbooks.

📋 Requirements

  • 4+ years in software engineering or solutions engineering.
  • Strong API integration skills (REST/JSON, auth flows, latency optimization).
  • Understanding of web infrastructure, distributed systems, or retrieval pipelines.
  • Comfort debugging integrations in customer environments.

✨ Nice to Have

  • Experience with AI infrastructure or agentic systems.
  • Experience at a startup or high-growth environment.
  • Ability to explain technical concepts to business audiences.

🎁 Benefits & Perks

  • 🚀 High impact - early stage, shape the product.
  • 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Tight-knit team - work directly with founders.
  • 🌐 Frontier tech - building the agentic web.
  • 💰 Competitive equity in a fast-growing startup.
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