Forward Deployed Engineer

The role

You will help AI companies, developers, and enterprises integrate Linkup's AI-ready search APIs into their products. You will work at the intersection of engineering, GTM, and customer success to design, prototype, and deploy integrations.

What you will do

• Work with customers and partners to design, prototype, and deploy API integrations.
• Participate in pre-sales efforts including technical discovery and proof-of-concept design.
• Collaborate with backend, ML, and product teams to ensure performance and reliability.
• Partner with GTM Engineer and DevRel team to create automation, tutorials, and playbooks.
• Identify and implement technical integrations with partners in the value chain.
• Translate complex technical concepts for developers and business audiences.

Required qualifications

• 2+ years in technical support engineering, software engineering, or solutions engineering.
• Direct application development experience.
• Strong API integration skills to design and debug REST/JSON payloads, manage auth flows, and optimize latency.
• Understanding of web infrastructure, distributed systems, or retrieval pipelines.
• Ability to debug integrations and solve ambiguous technical challenges in customer environments.
• Clear and empathetic communication with technical and business audiences.
• Curiosity about AI infrastructure, retrieval, and the emerging agentic ecosystem.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, high-ownership startup environment.

About the company

Linkup is a small technical team building a structured knowledge layer for AI agents. Their mission is to deliver the world's freshest, most trusted knowledge to AIs.