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Forward Deployed Engineer

Recruiting From Scratch
Full-time
On-site
San Francisco, California, United States
$200,300 - $200,300 USD yearly
Who is Recruiting from Scratch: 
Recruiting from Scratch is a talent firm that focuses on placing the best candidate for our clients. Our team is 100% remote and we work with teams across North America, South America, and Europe to help them hire.
 
 
Role Title: Forward Deployed Engineer
Location: San Francisco, CA (Salesforce Park)
Company Stage of Funding: Seed (Series A fundraising expected soon)
Office Type: Onsite (5 days a week)
Salary: $130,000 – $210,000 + Equity

Company Description

Our client is a fast-growing venture-backed company applying advanced AI agents to billions of digital events each day, protecting millions of users from spam, scams, and abuse. Their platform is already trusted by Fortune 500 enterprises and high-growth tech unicorns. Despite being an early-stage team, they’ve reached over $1M in annual revenue, secured contracts in the $200–300K range with major enterprises, and are preparing for their Series A.

This is an opportunity to join a high-impact team in San Francisco working at the intersection of AI, security, and large-scale data.

What You Will Do

  • Lead the end-to-end strategy and execution of product integrations with enterprise customer data backends.

  • Partner with technical and non-technical stakeholders to design and deliver scalable AI-powered workflows.

  • Build GenAI-driven automation for billion-scale event processing.

  • Configure event types, graph structures, queues, and workflows to meet customer needs.

  • Serve as the primary technical point of contact for enterprise customers, ensuring ongoing success and adoption.

  • Conduct data ingestion load testing and set up actions/webhooks to optimize integrations.

Ideal Candidate Background

  • 2–7 years of experience as a forward deployed engineer, solutions engineer, or consultant (sweet spot: 1–2 years out of college with hands-on enterprise work).

  • Prior experience integrating with enterprise SaaS platforms (e.g., Databricks, Snowflake, Salesforce, Palantir, C3 AI, Segment).

  • Background in software engineering with strong coding proficiency in Python, Java, TypeScript, or similar.

  • Strong technical understanding of large-scale data systems and integrations.

  • Excellent communication skills for engaging both engineers and executive stakeholders.

  • Comfortable in a fast-paced startup environment with a young, ambitious team.

Preferred

  • Experience or strong interest in Generative AI (familiar with prompting, RAG, and current LLM models).

  • Previous customer-facing engineering or enterprise consulting experience.

  • Degree in Computer Science or equivalent professional experience.

  • Bay Area-based or willing to relocate to San Francisco.

Compensation and Benefits

  • Salary: $130,000 – $210,000 base + equity (0.5% – 1.0%).

  • Visa: TN sponsorship available (H1B not offered at this time).

  • Location: Modern office in Salesforce Park, San Francisco.

  • Growth: Opportunity to join a rapidly scaling company on the verge of Series A funding.

  • Impact: Directly shape the product and customer experience at a company tackling high-stakes problems in fraud and security.