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Headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area, we foster a culture of innovation, ownership, and measurable impact.\nROLE OVERVIEW\nWe’re hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer to sit at the intersection of engineering, customer partnership, and real-world operations at BackOps. This role works directly with customers and operators to deploy adaptive, AI-driven systems into live environments-and evolve them alongside the business.\nThis is a hybrid role for builders who love both systems and people. 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