Senior/Staff Forward Deployed Engineer

$221,000–$275,000San Francisco, CAHybridSeniorToday

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About the job

Senior/Staff Forward Deployed Engineers work directly with enterprise customers to design, build, deploy, and operate AI-powered production systems across backend services, integrations, infrastructure, and data pipelines.

Summary written from the posting.

What you’ll do

Design and ship production-grade AI systems across services, integrations, orchestration, and infrastructure
Own customer deployments from discovery and architecture through rollout, monitoring, and iteration
Debug issues across customer environments, authentication, APIs, infrastructure, and data pipelines
Translate customer needs into technical plans and reusable platform capabilities

What you’ll bring

4+ years building production software systems
Ability to architect and ship complex systems independently
Experience with APIs, distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and data-intensive applications
Production experience with LLMs, AI agents, retrieval systems, orchestration frameworks, or applied AI

Technologies

TypeScript · LLMs · AI agents · retrieval systems · orchestration frameworks · distributed systems · data pipelines · cloud infrastructure · authentication systems

About Laurel

AI-native timekeeping and work intelligence platform that automates time capture and transforms time data into business insights for accounting, legal, and consulting firms.

Series C · 100–200 people

Pay and conditions

Posted pay: $221,000–$275,000
Pay details
$221K – $275K • Offers Equity
Location: San Francisco, CA
Work arrangement: Hybrid
Employment type: Full-time
Visa sponsorship: Not available
Experience requirements: 4+ years

The work, as we read it

Kind of work: Builds what the customer runs

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