# Forward Deployed Engineer > Raydar · San Francisco, United States · Full-time · Posted 2026-09-30 **Salary:** USD 130,000–150,000 **Workplace:** on_site ## Description About the company Our client is a fast-growing software company. The role Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Work as a hands-on engineer who embeds with customer teams to understand how they operate, then builds and launches integrations on a core platform. Time is split between writing production code and guiding technical discussions with customer stakeholders, carrying each deployment from discovery through go-live. What you'll do \- Spend time on-site with customer teams to map out their workflows, systems, handoffs and exceptions, then recommend what to build first. \- Ship production integrations, including language-model extraction tuned to customer documents, email intake, and data delivery into enterprise systems. \- Translate customer business rules into automated agent logic inside the core platform. \- Guide pilots through go-live and stabilization, and train customer users. \- Use what each rollout teaches to shape the roadmap and create internal tools that shorten future rollouts. \- Host recurring progress calls with customers and keep multi-week deployment schedules on track. \- Build and maintain evaluation frameworks, including ground truth datasets and accuracy and recall metrics, to inform release decisions. \- Contribute to backend and product development across the platform when integration workload is lighter. ## Requirements What we're looking for \- Early-career engineer with roughly one to four years of hands-on work shipping AI-driven applications at a young business-to-business company. \- Solid production backend engineering background, ideally with Python and PostgreSQL. \- Practical experience with document parsing and agent-style workflows built on language or vision models. \- Track record of leading technical calls with customers and taking responsibility for successful delivery, especially in enterprise settings. \- Experience assembling ground truth datasets and measuring model quality before release. \- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science. \- Comfort with a high-intensity environment, including availability on evenings and weekends. \- Ability to work on-site five days a week in San Francisco or relocate. Bonus points \- Prior experience as a founding engineer or forward deployed engineer at an early-stage startup. \- Background in evaluation frameworks. ## Benefits Compensation and benefits \- Base salary: USD 130,000 to 150,000 per year \- Equity \- Health, dental and vision coverage \- Retirement plan with company match \- Performance bonus \- Relocation support Location and work model \- San Francisco, CA, United States \- On-site, 5 days per week in office \- Full-time ## Apply [Apply at Raydar](https://apply.workable.com/raydar/j/64FD5B62E1/apply) --- Powered by [Workable](https://www.workable.com)