The role
- COMP
- $220K - $320K
- EQUITY
- Extremely competitive equity
- LOCATION
- San Francisco
- WORKPLACE
- On-site
- EXPERIENCE
- 3 - 6 years
- VISA
- None, Visa transfers
- STACK
- Python, REST API
- INDUSTRY
- AI, Enterprise, B2B
/roles — ROLE_35
Forward Deployed Engineer
Fast-growing AI company turning complex PDFs, spreadsheets, and scanned files into accurate, structured inputs for language model applications
The company
Agentic document platform used by leading AI teams to parse and process complex documents with enterprise performance at scale.
- STAGE
- scale-up
- FUNDING
- $100M+ raised
- TEAM
- ~80 people
- FOUNDED
- 2023
- BACKING
- backed by a16z, Y Combinator
- NOTE
- revenue growing ~8x YoY; tens of millions of pages processed monthly
JD — the work
About the role
Founding FDE at a Series B document-AI company processing tens of millions of pages monthly and growing revenue ~8x year over year, backed by three of the most respected names in venture. You'd own technical deployment for some of the world's most sophisticated enterprise customers and shape the FDE function from scratch.
What you'll do
- Run rigorous pre-sales evals, custom demos, and win competitive bake-offs
- Own post-sales success for 1-3 enterprise accounts: unblock, deepen adoption, unlock expansion
- Build whatever drives value: eval apps, customized agents, product modifications
- Create diagnostics, dashboards, and eval harnesses tracking performance and regressions
- Work directly with founders to shape product and engineering strategy
What they're looking for
- 3-6 years deploying production software, ideally with enterprise or regulated customers
- Excellent Python; capable across Bash and infrastructure
- High agency and an uncompromising quality bar