21h ago
Forward Deployed Engineer
Menlo Park
โจ $210k-$290k / yearest.
full-timeseniorsoftware
๐ Tech Stack
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๐ผ About This Role
You'll embed with strategic customers to design, build, and deploy AI and data systems on Shakudo's platform. You'll own the end-to-end path from discovery to production, turning business problems into measurable outcomes. This role combines deep technical work with customer-facing impact, offering a chance to work on production AI systems in complex enterprise environments.
๐ฏ What You'll Do
- Embed with customer teams to understand business problems and success metrics.
- Design and implement production data workflows across enterprise environments.
- Deploy and operate Shakudo in complex customer environments.
- Participate in PagerDuty-based production support and incident response.
๐ Requirements
- 8+ years of experience across software, data, platform, or AI engineering.
- 3+ years building LLM/AI applications such as RAG, agents, or evaluations.
- 5+ years working with Kubernetes and cloud-native infrastructure.
- Strong data engineering background with modern data stack (Spark, Airflow, etc.).
โจ Nice to Have
- Experience in forward deployed or customer engineering roles.
- Experience with on-prem, private cloud, or air-gapped deployments.
- Ability to identify repeatable product opportunities from customer implementations.
๐ Benefits & Perks
- ๐ฐ Competitive salary and meaningful equity.
- ๐ฅ Top-tier health benefits fully covered.
- ๐ถ 16+ weeks pregnancy leave top-up.
- ๐๏ธ Flexible vacation policy.
- ๐ฟ Welcoming office with snacks and team outings.
๐จ Hiring Process
Estimated timeline: 3-5 weeks ยท AI estimate
- 1Recruiter Callยท 30 min
- 2Technical Screenยท 60 min
- 3On-site Interviewsยท 4 hours
๐ฉ Heads Up
- Onsite requirement may limit candidate pool.
- High travel expectation (customer sites) not explicitly quantified.
- PagerDuty production support may lead to on-call burnout.
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