Senior Forward Deployed Engineer

The role

Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. A senior engineer who owns large customer deployments from initial evaluation through rollout and expansion, working directly with the client's technical teams. The role involves debugging complex software live in restricted, self-hosted environments and balancing field work with contributions to the core product.

What you'll do

• Lead one or two large, multi-month customer deployments from initial evaluation through rollout and expansion.
• Troubleshoot a Python backend and React frontend live with customer engineers across Linux, containers, networking and file systems.
• Run training sessions, track issues and document them, then close the loop once fixes ship.
• Contribute to core product work between customer escalations and pass field learnings to the product roadmap.
• Travel occasionally to customer sites.

What we're looking for

• 2 to 6 years of experience in a technical role.
• A history of driving customer-facing technical projects independently from kickoff to delivery, in roles such as forward deployed engineer or early employee at a startup.
• Experience owning several technical engagements at the same time.
• Deep Linux and Unix systems skills, including hands-on container setup, container networking and network file systems.
• Strong Python skills and the ability to learn a large codebase quickly.
• Experience at a leading AI, defense or hardware startup.
• An engineering bachelor's degree from a highly ranked school.

Bonus points

• Familiarity with hardware design and verification tools and methods.
• Experience with EDA tools and CAD flows.
• Background building early-stage products or working in machine learning would be a plus.

Compensation and benefits

• Base salary: $180K - $250K per year
• Equity
• Health, dental and vision coverage
• Retirement plan

Location and work model

• San Francisco, CA, United States
• On-site, 5 days in-office per week
• Full-time