What are the responsibilities and job description for the Forward Deployed Engineer position at David AI?
About Our Forward Deployed Engineering Team
When we need to scale a new capability 0→1, our Forward Deployed Engineers work with our operations team and leading AI labs to identify problems and build solutions.
Day-to-day, you focus on the highest-impact work. One week you might build an app to capture a new class of speech data; the next, prompt-engineer a new evaluator; and another, embed with a customer’s engineering team to maximize the value of our datasets.
In this role, you will
When we need to scale a new capability 0→1, our Forward Deployed Engineers work with our operations team and leading AI labs to identify problems and build solutions.
Day-to-day, you focus on the highest-impact work. One week you might build an app to capture a new class of speech data; the next, prompt-engineer a new evaluator; and another, embed with a customer’s engineering team to maximize the value of our datasets.
In this role, you will
- Design and ship custom 0→1 products for both our operations teams and customers.
- Navigate rapid context switches between technical deep-dives, customer-facing conversations, and data ops.
- A scrappy builder who can take an idea from 0→1 faster than most could write a PRD.
- An excellent communicator who can bridge technical and business contexts.
- Comfortable across the stack — backend, frontend, data, and cloud.
- Proven track record shipping fast-paced features with customer impact.
- Prior experience as a Forward Deployed Engineer at a high-growth company, with software engineering and product management as part of your role.
- Background as a former founder who has shipped and scaled products.
- Experience owning enterprise customer relationships.
- Familiarity with human data, audio, or machine learning.
- Top-tier consulting experience.
- Rapid career growth at one of the fastest growing Series A companies, within a new and booming industry.
- Competitive salary and equity package.
- Flexible PTO policy.
- Top-notch health, dental, and vision coverage with 100% company reimbursement for most plans.
- Paid lunch and dinner in the office, every day through DoorDash.
- 401k access.
Salary : $120,000 - $220,000