Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, Full-Stack

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Collaborate with Strategic Project Leads to manage customer programs from the initial scoping phase to the final data delivery.

• Transform ambiguous customer briefs into comprehensive technical plans.

• Determine what elements to reuse, extend, configure, or create, while validating any gaps prior to coding.

• Document the scope, implementation details, deliverables, and associated risks.

• Develop capture flows, task logic, data pipelines, and delivery mechanisms across web, mobile, and backend platforms.

• Deploy production code utilized by actual participants.

• Employ coding agents and evaluations in the development process, while mentoring others in these practices.

• Manage data redaction, validation, provenance, and ensure clean delivery.

• Design quality assurance checks and human review processes, measuring their effectiveness.

• Collaborate with the research team to guarantee data quality and supporting evidence.

• Work alongside core engineering to integrate recurring custom builds into the main platform.

• Recognize recurring customer needs and assist in prioritizing future platform enhancements.

• Suggest new program types and platform functionalities.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 7 years of experience delivering production-level full-stack software.

• Proven experience in directly engaging with technical customers as a forward-deployed engineer, solutions engineer, or early founding engineer.

• Demonstrated experience in building and managing data pipelines: ingestion, cleaning, redaction, and delivery.

• Practical experience with AI coding agents such as Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, or similar, with substantial production work using these tools.

• Background in building with LLMs and a solid understanding of their evaluation methods.

• Ability to navigate non-determinism and reason about behavior across distributions.

• Strong writing skills and the ability to articulate trade-offs to researchers and project managers.

• Based in the Bay Area, with occasional travel for customer engagements.

• Preferred: experience with human data, labeling, or evaluation pipelines.

• Preferred: experience with mobile or browser-based capture processes.

• Preferred: experience handling sensitive or regulated data.

• Preferred: entrepreneurial experience, such as founding a project or company.

🏝️ Benefits

• Built-in bonus program.

• Equity program.

• Flexible paid time off (PTO).

• 15 company holidays.

• 12 weeks of paid parental leave.

• 401(k) matching.

• Education stipend.

• Remote work stipend.

• Comprehensive benefits package for employees and their dependents.

• Remote-first workforce.

• Company culture embraces openness and transparency with the team.