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We’re backed by Y Combinator (S25) and a $6.3M seed round led by Peak XV, with investors including the founders of Supabase.\nWe believe every software company will need an agent interface, just as it needs a website today.\nAbout the role\nWe’re hiring our first Forward Deployed Engineer to help enterprise customers and partners go from an idea to a product running on Manufact.\nYou’ll work across enterprise pilots, technical partnerships and customer success. One week you might build an integration with another developer tool. The next, you’ll help a consulting partner deploy its first customer’s MCP app or get an enterprise implementation into production.\nYou own the technical journey from discovery through launch and adoption. That means writing code, making architecture decisions, working directly with customers, and making sure everyone follows through.\nYour work is successful when the customer is actually using the product and getting value from it.\nWhat you’ll own\nTechnical discovery and pilots. Understand the use case, define success criteria, scope the solution and build a working proof of concept.\n\nImplementation through production. Build MCP servers, apps and integrations. Debug APIs, authentication and deployment issues. Test the complete flow and help customers launch.\n\nCustomer delivery. Treat implementation as an important feature delivery. Maintain a shared implementation roadmap, give every task an owner, run weekly check-ins, and hold both teams accountable for agreed commitments.\n\nTechnical customer success. Stay close after launch. Monitor adoption, resolve blockers and help customers expand their usage.\n\nPartner engineering. Work with developer tools, system integrators and consultants to ship integrations and enable their teams to deliver on Manufact.\n\nMake the next deployment easier. Turn repeated work into templates, documentation, reusable integrations and product improvements.\n\nYou’ll work directly with the founders and our product, infrastructure and DevRel teams, with ownership of technical delivery and customer adoption.\nWho you are\nYou’ve shipped software used by real customers and can explain what happened after launch.\nStrong TypeScript skills and experience with APIs, authentication, integrations and cloud deployment.\nComfortable moving between a customer call, a technical design, your editor and production debugging.\nYou take ownership. When something stalls, you identify the blocker, find the right owner and follow through.\nClear written and verbal communication. 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