Forward Deployed Engineer

About the company

Our client is a technology company.

The role

Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Serve as the hands-on technical lead for a client rollout, pairing customer-facing communication with production coding across the implementation. The role suits an engineer who can explain technical ideas to non-specialists while shipping reliable code in a regulated setting.

What you'll do

- Lead implementation for client accounts, loading their course materials, documents and recordings into the platform's knowledge and data models.

- Manage prompts and service orchestration within a restricted cloud environment under strict security controls.

- Build client-requested features across front-end and back-end code, including interface changes, new data tables and file handling.

- Lead customer calls and explain AI concepts in plain language for non-technical audiences.

- Divide time between hands-on coding, customer work and internal coordination, with roughly half the week spent coding.

- Travel to client sites during the early phases of a project.

Requirements

What we're looking for

- One to three years of experience in an engineering role.

- Hands-on experience with a major cloud AI platform such as AWS, Azure or GCP.

- A bachelor's degree in computer science or a STEM-related field.

- Experience shipping LLM or agent systems to production.

- Solid hands-on coding ability in a server-side scripting language, a typed web language and a React-based web framework.

- Background delivering software in public-sector or compliance-bound environments that carry formal authorization requirements.

- Willingness to work on-site five days a week.

Bonus points

- Experience working in a fast-paced environment building new products from scratch.

Benefits

Compensation and benefits

- Base salary: $130K - $170K

- Equity

Location and work model

- Los Altos, CA, United States

- On-site, 5 days in-office per week

- Full-time