Senior Forward Deployed Engineer
HandshakeRecruitment Platform company
Bangalore, IndiaSenior
Lightspeed Venture Partners
Spark Capital
True Ventures
Kleiner Perkins
Annox Capital
Proactive
Software Engineering
About the role
TL;DR
Solve complex engineering challenges for frontier AI labs.
- •We're hiring a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer to work directly with frontier AI labs to solve their most complex engineering challenges.
- •Key Responsibilities Partner directly with frontier AI labs to understand complex technical challenges and translate them into scalable engineering solutions Partner closely with Engineering, Research, Product, and Operations teams in the US to execute against a shared roadmap Design, build, and deploy production-grade applications that solve high-impact customer problems Own technical architecture for customer deployments with a focus on reliability, scalability, security, and maintainability Rapidly prototype, test, and iterate on solutions based on customer feedback Requirements 6+ years of professional software engineering experience Experience leading technically complex customer-facing, solutions engineering, or forward deployed engineering projects Strong proficiency with TypeScript, React, and modern backend architectures Deep understanding of relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL), system design, distributed systems, and cloud infrastructure Experience building and operating production systems on AWS or GCP
Required skills
TypeScriptReactPostgreSQLAWSGoogle CloudEngineering ManagementTechnical Leadership
Nice-to-have skills
DockerKubernetesCI/CDHugging FaceNLPLLMs
Domain expertise
ai
Benefits & perks
Generous Equity Grant, Housing Bonus, Well Defined Performance Bonus, Medical Insurance Coverage, Food credit
Tech stack
TypeScriptReactPostgreSQLAWSGoogle CloudDockerKubernetesCI/CD