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Forward Deployed Engineer

Clera
Posted 2 days ago, valid for a month
Location

San Francisco, CA, US

Salary

$150,000 - $200,000 per year

Contract type

Full Time

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  • This role is a customer-facing engineering position at an early-stage AI/ML startup, focusing on product, engineering, and customer success.
  • The candidate will manage the entire lifecycle of new customer deployments, reporting directly to senior leadership.
  • Applicants should have at least 3 years of experience in shipping production software and customer-facing roles.
  • Strong TypeScript proficiency and hands-on experience with AI agents in production are required.
  • The salary for this position ranges from $150,000 to $200,000 USD annually, with visa sponsorship available.

About the Role

This is a high-impact, customer-facing engineering role at an early-stage AI/ML startup, sitting at the intersection of product, engineering, and customer success. You will own the full lifecycle of new customer deployments, from initial integration through first detection to first merged PR, and report directly to senior leadership on a small, focused team. Your work directly shapes both customer outcomes and the product itself.

What You'll Do

  • Own new customer onboarding end to end: drive integrations, surface first traces, catch first failures, and land first PRs in their codebases.

  • Embed in customer communication channels and become the go-to expert on their agent architecture and failure modes.

  • Write detection logic and evals tailored to each customer's specific problems, then generalize recurring patterns into product improvements.

  • Open PRs against unfamiliar codebases and defend them in code review with engineers who did not invite your involvement.

  • Represent the company solo in critical conversations including security reviews, deployment architecture decisions, and trust-building discussions.

  • Feed learnings back into the product continuously so that manual work shrinks every quarter.

What We're Looking For

  • 3 or more years shipping production software, with demonstrated success in customer-facing roles such as forward deployment, solutions engineering, consulting, or founding a company.

  • Strong TypeScript proficiency and comfort reading, patching, and navigating unfamiliar codebases quickly.

  • Real, hands-on experience building and deploying AI agents in production environments, with genuine opinions about how and why they fail.

  • Experience writing detection logic, evals, and observability or monitoring code for production systems.

  • Ability to rapidly understand new systems, identify what matters, and move from "something is broken" to "it's fixed" with minimal ramp time.

  • Comfort with ambiguity: you can walk into an unfamiliar organization and orient yourself quickly.

  • Bonus: prior experience running agents in production yourself and dealing with production incidents firsthand.

Compensation & Benefits

Salary range: $150,000 to $200,000 USD annually. Visa sponsorship is available.

Location

On-site in San Francisco, California, with travel to customer sites as needed.




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