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Forward Deployed Engineer
Xcede San Francisco Bay Area (On-site)
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A top SF-based AI startup is looking for a senior software engineer to join their growing technology team. They are building open superintelligence and want make it accessible to all.
They are developing open weight models for individuals, agents, enterprises, and even nation states.
What This Team Does
Build the internal and customer-facing product surfaces that turn platform capabilities into usable workflows. This role sits at the intersection of engineering and product translating ambiguous requirements into clean, operable systems and taking ideas from early prototype to hardened production components.
- Build internal product surfaces such as dashboards, admin tools, and self-serve workflows.
- Own end-to-end delivery across UI, APIs, authentication, RBAC, and audit trails.
- Integrate with customer environments and adjacent systems to ensure seamless workflows.
- Productionize prototypes into reliable, maintainable, and operable platform components.
What You'll Work With
- Full-Stack & API Development: Python, React, TypeScript, REST, gRPC, FastAPI, Go services, API design.
- Auth & Governance: OIDC authentication, RBAC, audit logging.
- Workflows & Integrations: Event-driven systems, workflow orchestration, feature flags, customer integrations.
- Monitoring & Developer Tooling: Dashboards, observability tooling, experiment tracking systems, metrics and log visualization.
About You
- Strong full-stack engineering background with experience shipping production-grade applications end-to-end.
- Comfortable owning the full delivery surface — UI through API through auth — without needing to hand off between layers.
- Experience integrating with external systems or customer environments and making those integrations reliable and maintainable.
- Experience building AI agents
Salary : $200,000 - $300,000