# Field Engineer > Raydar · United States (Remote) · Full-time · Posted 2026-10-12 **Salary:** USD 176,000–224,000 **Workplace:** remote ## 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 directly with large organizations as a hands-on technical lead, guiding AI initiatives from early conversations through to live deployment. The role combines engineering, pre-sales consulting and stakeholder management, and passes field insights back to internal product teams. What you'll do \- Run technical discovery sessions, scope proofs of concept, and carry out load testing and evaluations to confirm the right architecture and deployment setup for each customer. \- Build proofs of concept and production integrations hands-on inside customer environments, working within their infrastructure and security constraints. \- Advise customers on model selection, fine-tuning approaches and evaluation practices as they move from experimentation to production. \- Manage relationships across multiple stakeholders, identify internal champions and align the right people to move opportunities forward. \- Share recurring customer challenges and deployment patterns with product and engineering teams to inform the roadmap. \- Travel domestically to customer sites as needed. ## Requirements What we're looking for \- 3+ years of experience in a technical, customer-facing role. \- A track record of delivering working AI or ML software in a client's own live systems, with hands-on exposure to large language model serving and fine-tuning. \- Working knowledge of open-model serving tools and the trade-offs involved in inference, plus comfort in the terminal. \- Experience deploying and running infrastructure for open-model inference. \- Solid Python programming ability, along with experience running GPU workloads on a major cloud platform and familiarity with Kubernetes. \- Executive presence in enterprise settings, able to hold a technical deep-dive with an engineer and present architecture trade-offs to a senior executive on the same day. \- Experience carrying a pre-sales technical engagement from the first call through proof of concept scoping, evaluations and model recommendations. \- Background at an AI-focused startup, or at an enterprise software company building AI features. \- Experience working with a major cloud provider in an AI capacity. \- Willingness to travel domestically to customers. Bonus points \- Experience navigating enterprise organizational dynamics end-to-end. \- Experience with preference-based or reinforcement fine-tuning workflows. ## Benefits Compensation and benefits \- Base salary: USD 176,000 to 224,000 per year \- Equity \- Performance-based variable compensation \- Comprehensive benefits package Location and work model \- Remote (US) \- Full-time ## Apply [Apply at Raydar](https://apply.workable.com/raydar/j/6DF8C9B5D2/apply) --- Powered by [Workable](https://www.workable.com)