# Forward Deployed Engineer

> Raydar · Los Altos, United States · Full-time · Posted 2026-11-12

**Salary:** USD 130,000–170,000

**Workplace:** on_site

## Description

About the company

Our client is a technology company.

The role

Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Serve as the hands-on technical lead for a client rollout, pairing customer-facing communication with production coding across the implementation. The role suits an engineer who can explain technical ideas to non-specialists while shipping reliable code in a regulated setting.

What you'll do

\- Lead implementation for client accounts, loading their course materials, documents and recordings into the platform's knowledge and data models.

\- Manage prompts and service orchestration within a restricted cloud environment under strict security controls.

\- Build client-requested features across front-end and back-end code, including interface changes, new data tables and file handling.

\- Lead customer calls and explain AI concepts in plain language for non-technical audiences.

\- Divide time between hands-on coding, customer work and internal coordination, with roughly half the week spent coding.

\- Travel to client sites during the early phases of a project.

## Requirements

What we're looking for

\- One to three years of experience in an engineering role.

\- Hands-on experience with a major cloud AI platform such as AWS, Azure or GCP.

\- A bachelor's degree in computer science or a STEM-related field.

\- Experience shipping LLM or agent systems to production.

\- Solid hands-on coding ability in a server-side scripting language, a typed web language and a React-based web framework.

\- Background delivering software in public-sector or compliance-bound environments that carry formal authorization requirements.

\- Willingness to work on-site five days a week.

Bonus points

\- Experience working in a fast-paced environment building new products from scratch.

## Benefits

Compensation and benefits

\- Base salary: $130K - $170K

\- Equity

Location and work model

\- Los Altos, CA, United States

\- On-site, 5 days in-office per week

\- Full-time

## Apply

[Apply at Raydar](https://apply.workable.com/raydar/j/EEE6F50CE3/apply)

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