$160,000–$265,000
Founding Forward Deployed Engineer - US
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Pay not postedSan Francisco, CA · Austin, TX · +1 moreSan Francisco, CA +2Hybrid
Founding Forward Deployed Engineer responsible for identifying high-impact customer workflows, integrating AI agents with customer systems, and delivering production-grade solutions in the field.
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At a glance
Posted base pay
Not posted
Median $188K
Typical senior FDE payMiddle 50% of 1,748 postings$160K–$220KThe work
Builds what the customer runs
Balance
- Mostly building
- Mixed
- Mostly pre-sales or support
Project stages
- Pre-sales (not covered)
- Proof of concept (not covered)
- Implementation
- Operations
Travel Required, amount not stated
- Coding
- Writes production code
- Builds for
- External customers
- Level
- Senior
- Role
- Individual contributor
What they ask for
Experience
Background
Tools
Less common in FDE jobs
- Company stage: Early12%
- Company size: About 51–200 people18%
- Hybrid35%
- Individual contributor or manager: Individual contributor50%
Share of US FDE postings that state each fact.
The job description from H Company
Posted by H Company on
FOUNDING FORWARD DEPLOYED ENGINEER
What we're looking for
- Individuals with impressive achievements and great technical skills, highly proficient in Python .
- Around 3 years of experience in AI with the ability to act autonomously and demonstrate real curiosity for AI.
- Customer-facing experience and comfortable working alongside a customer.
- Excellent communication skills.
About H: H Company is a next-generation AI research and product company pioneering the future of autonomous, agentic AI. Founded to build intelligence that acts, H Company is creating the foundational infrastructure for autonomous AI systems that drive real-world outcomes across industries.
About the Team
The Forward Deployed Team is committed to ensuring the successful implementation of our Agents to help our customer automate and optimize tasks, and allow them to focus on what really matters. The team is also responsible to shape the future vision of our products by distilling learnings from the field into the H platform.
That platform empowers a wide range of professionals and businesses to safely, easily and autonomously deploy agents at scale for a broad range of tasks: from ensuring websites behave as expected to automating repeated tasks.
Key Responsibilities
Understand and identify customer’s most important and impactful multi-step task to automate
Seamlessly integrate with customer systems, including but not limited to databases, third-party APIs, and internal tools, etc.
Rapidly iterate in the field with tight feedback loops to continuously improve product fit and drive end-to-end solution delivery
Architect, build, and maintain production-grade services that scale with usage and complexity
Collaborate closely with product, research, and engineering teams to shape the roadmap and align on priorities based on findings in the field
Requirements
3+ years of professional AI + software engineering experience, ideally in fast-paced environments (e.g., startups, consulting, or product teams), or otherwise proven technical acumen through projects and past experiences
Experience working with AI/ML systems, especially integrating LLMs or other agentic workflows into real products
Heavy fluency in Python and familiarity with Typescript
Familiarity with backend (FastAPI, Next.js…) and frontend (React…) frameworks and a good sense of UI/UX tradeoffs
Experience building and deploying production systems: APIs, services, infrastructure, and/or data pipelines
Proficiency in integrating third-party APIs, databases, and external systems in a secure and reliable way
Strong problem-solving skills and ability to thrive in ambiguous, customer-facing environments
Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
Bias for action: able to ship quickly, iterate fast, and own the full lifecycle of solutions
Willingness to travel for on-site deployments or customer engagements
Location
H's teams are distributed throughout Paris, France, London, UK, and the US.
This role can be based either in SF/Bay area-CA, Austin-TX, or NY.
What we offer
Be part of the founding journey of one of the most exciting AI startups shaping the future of AI and agentic systems.
Collaborate with a fun, dynamic and multicultural team, working alongside world-class AI engineers, researchers, and builders in a high-trust, high-impact environment.
Enjoy a competitive compensation package, including equity.
About H Company
Builds computer-use AI models, agents, and deployment infrastructure so enterprises can automate workflows across web, desktop, and legacy software without relying on APIs.
Seed · 50–100 people
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