21h ago

Forward Deployed Engineer

Menlo Park

โœจ $210k-$290k / yearest.

full-timeseniorsoftware

๐Ÿ›  Tech Stack

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๐Ÿ’ผ 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.

๐ŸŽฏ 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.

๐Ÿ“‹ 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.).

โœจ 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.

๐ŸŽ Benefits & Perks

  • ๐Ÿ’ฐ Competitive salary and meaningful equity.
  • ๐Ÿฅ Top-tier health benefits fully covered.
  • ๐Ÿ‘ถ 16+ weeks pregnancy leave top-up.
  • ๐Ÿ–๏ธ Flexible vacation policy.
  • ๐Ÿฟ Welcoming office with snacks and team outings.

๐Ÿ“จ Hiring Process

Estimated timeline: 3-5 weeks ยท AI estimate

  1. 1Recruiter Callยท 30 min
  2. 2Technical Screenยท 60 min
  3. 3On-site Interviewsยท 4 hours

๐Ÿšฉ 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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