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Forward Deployed Engineer

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Pay not postedSan Francisco, CAOn-site

Own customer accounts from scoping through live implementation

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At a glance

Posted base pay

Not posted

The work

Builds what the customer runs

Balance

  1. Mostly building
  2. Mixed
  3. Mostly pre-sales or support

Project stages

  1. Pre-sales
  2. Proof of concept (not covered)
  3. Implementation
  4. Operations
Coding
Writes production code
Builds for
External customers
Level
Senior
Role
Technical lead

What they ask for

Tools

  • browser automation
  • LLM-based systems
  • voice systems
  • realtime systems
  • prompt engineering
  • agent evaluation

Less common in FDE jobs

  • Covers pre-sales25%
  • On-site37%
  • Individual contributor or manager: Technical lead47%

Share of US FDE postings that state each fact.

The job description from Sable

Posted by Sable on

About Sable

Sable built Aidan, the first AI employee who can lead customer calls using realtime voice, vision, and browser use. Aidan runs a live, two-way conversation inside a real product environment, clicking through the product like a human, watching the user's screen, and adapting the journey on the fly. Every conversation feeds a self-improving context graph we call the Brain, so Aidan gets smarter with each call.

The role

You own a customer end to end from the engineering side. You join calls with customers, watch where Aidan could improve inside their product, and find the technical breakthroughs: sometimes in the customer's configuration, sometimes in the tooling, and sometimes in the agent itself. You work in a pair with a Deployment Strategist who owns the customer's context and journeys; you own everything that needs code. When the fix belongs in the core agent, you bring the agent team a reproduced case and a proposed change, not a vague report.

What you'll do

  • Be the engineer assigned to a set of accounts, from first scoping call to live implementation
  • Build the tooling that makes deployments faster: replay, evaluation, configuration, integrations into the customer's stack
  • Coordinate development with the agent team.
  • Turn what you learn on each account into playbooks so the next deployment needs less of you

Who you are

  • Strong software engineer, comfortable across backend, browser automation, and LLM-based systems
  • You like working directly with customers and leading technical discussions when necessary
  • You have shipped at a startup or as a founder, or have been in a forward deployed or solutions role
  • Bonus: hands-on agent, prompt, or evaluation work; experience with voice or realtime systems

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Pay and conditions

Posted pay
Pay not posted
Location
San Francisco, CA
Work arrangement
On-site
Employment type
Full-time