Senior Forward Deployed Engineer

San Francisco. Posted 3 months ago

The role

You will own complex enterprise deployments and architect agent systems for Fortune 500 environments. You will act as a technical anchor for a pod of FDEs, building tooling, debugging distributed systems, and driving product feedback loops.

What you will do

Own the hardest deployments end-to-end.
Architect agent systems for Fortune 500 environments.
Build enterprise integrations.
Set the engineering bar through design and code reviews.
Mentor FDE I/II engineers.
Serve as the escalation point for hard live issues.
Create eval harnesses, deployment tooling, and debugging infrastructure.
Turn deployment learnings into prototypes and platform improvements.
Run architecture discussions with customer engineering leaders.

Required qualifications

5+ years of production software engineering.
Expert in Python, APIs, cloud infrastructure, CI/CD.
Hands-on with LLM agent systems including orchestration, tool calling, evals, and context engineering.
Ability to debug distributed systems under pressure.

Nice to have

Prior forward deployed / solutions engineering at an AI or enterprise software company
Real-time voice or conversational AI experience
Early-stage startup experience

Benefits

Competitive base + bonus + equity
Catered lunch daily
Dinner stipend
$300/month wellness & commuter benefit (gym, fitness classes, mental health)
401(k) plan
Medical, dental, and vision coverage

About the company

Giga is a Voice AI startup that has raised a $61M Series A. They work with Fortune 500 customers to deploy real-time AI agents.