Forward Deployed Engineer, San Francisco

The role

You will establish the US Forward Deployed Engineer presence and define how the function operates. You will work with engineering leaders at AI-driven companies to architect, deploy, and evolve the core product to meet customer needs.

What you will do

• Architect and deploy at scale with customers
• Evolve the core product to ensure customer success
• Own the technical relationship and lead customer pilots
• Guide product direction based on field learnings
• Build the FDE playbook, processes, and tooling

Required qualifications

• 3+ years in a demanding technical role or 1+ years for exceptional candidates
• Highly agentic with a bias to action
• Strong communication skills
• Willingness to travel approximately 25%

Nice to have

• Senior IC at a top tech company
• Ex-founder or technical founding engineer
• Forward Deployed Engineer at OpenAI, Scale, or Anthropic
• Solutions architect or staff engineer

Benefits

• Unlimited food and drinks in office
• Daily lunch as a team
• Amazon business account for office snacks
• Standing desk
• Brand new Macbook
• Choice of ergonomic peripherals
• $2.5k WFH budget
• Team offsites
• Unlimited book budget

About the company

Meticulous is building technology to help companies unlock safe AI code generation. They work with AI-driven engineering teams like Notion, ElevenLabs, and Dropbox.