Forward Deployed EngineerSan Francisco, CA
Posted
- Work style
- Onsite
- Salary
- $180k–$300k
- Stage
- Seed
- Industry
- AI
- Visa sponsorship
- Available
- Employment
- Full-time
The opportunity
Deploy a fast-growing AI platform inside customer environments around the world, solve problems side by side with customer teams, and still ship core product work.
A seed-stage AI company, founded in 2024 and backed by well-known early-stage investors. Its platform lets businesses route work across hundreds of AI models and launch agents that do real work, hosted wherever the customer wants. Around 100 customers worldwide, from fast-growing startups to public companies. Engineers have recently deployed on-site with customers in the Middle East and Europe. A company apartment helps new hires relocate.
What you will do
- Deploy the product inside customer environments, sometimes from the customer's office
- Configure, troubleshoot and improve implementations with customer teams
- Be the technical partner to sales and client leads during deployments
- Contribute to core product work when a deployment needs it
- Travel to customer sites around the world as needed
What you bring
- Around 1 to 5 years of engineering experience, ideally at a high-growth or AI-native startup
- Strong software engineering fundamentals and the ability to work on the core product
- Comfort deploying and troubleshooting software in customer environments
- Clear communication with technical and non-technical people
- Willingness to travel internationally for deployments
- Willingness to work in person in San Francisco five days a week on an intensive schedule (roughly 9am to 9pm, six days a week)
Nice to have
- On-site customer deployment experience
- Experience at an AI-native startup
- Non-traditional paths welcome when the engineering is strong
Pay and benefits
$180k–$300ka year, full-time
- Salary range: $180,000 to $300,000 per year. This is the range the client expects to pay in good faith. The final amount depends on experience and other job-related factors.
- Competitive salary plus equity
- Company apartment
- Relocation support
- Health, medical and dental coverage
Where you will work
The team is based in San Francisco, CA, and works onsite. We can talk about what that looks like for you.
Visa sponsorship is available for this role, including new petitions.
Why is the company hidden? Our clients hire quietly. V6 shares the name once we have spoken and you are ready.
How we hire
- ApplyTwo minutes. A resume or pasted text, plus a few lines on why you fit.
- V6 screenA practitioner reviews your application, and we call when there's a match.
- Intro call30 minutes with the founders
- Technical interview60 minutes
- Technical exercise60 minutes
- On-siteA 3 to 4 hour working session in San Francisco
- References
- Offer
Interview steps are set by the client and may change. V6 does not control the client's process, but we advocate for every candidate at each stage.
About this listing
V6 posts this role on behalf of a client company, which makes the hiring decision. Role details, salary range and benefits come from the client and may change or close without notice. A listing is not an offer of employment, and applying does not create an employment, agency or contractual relationship with V6 or the client. Candidates never pay V6 any fee.
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