# Forward Deployed Engineer

U.S. citizenship required. Visa sponsorship is not available. Location: San Francisco, in person; travel to customer sites as needed Type: Full time The role Sainapse runs inside high-stakes customer workflows. Getting from a promising use case to production requires more than configuration: someone has to understand the process, map the systems, build the integrations, prove quality, manage launch risk, and turn what was learned into a better product. As a Forward Deployed Engineer, you will own that path for strategic customers-from an agreed POC scope through hands-on delivery, evaluation, production launch, and early expansion. What you’ll do Embed with customer operations and technical teams to understand the real workflow, not only the stated requirements. Translate ambiguous needs into architecture, milestones, success metrics, risks, and launch criteria. Build and debug integrations across helpdesks, CRMs, ERPs, APIs, identity systems, data stores, and customer infrastructure. Configure and extend AI workflows, retrieval, tools, guardrails, and human escalation. Execute agreed evaluations and operational readiness plans covering quality, observability, rollback, securit

- **Id**: 758304
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/sainapse-forward-deployed-engineer>
- **Role**: Solutions
- **Role family**: Solutions
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: San Francisco, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: yes
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-10T16:42:08Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-09-10
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-10T01:03:12Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 60
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3532
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: AI Agents, Customer Support & Help Desk Software

## Company

- **Id**: 691669
- **Name**: Sainapse
- **Domain**: sainapse.ai
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/sainapse>
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

## Salary

- **Min**: 120000
- **Max**: 140000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 140000

## Technologies

- **Copilot** — Optional: no
- **Function Calling** — Optional: no
- **LLM** — Optional: no
- **LLM Guardrails** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **TypeScript** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 60

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: yes

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-11T17:41:45Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: no; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 3; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: Offered visa sponsorship in 3 of its adverts here in 24 months; Filings 12m: 0

## Liveness

- **Score**: 17
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.496
- **P room**: 0.35
- **Age days**: 59
- **Expected fill days**: 25
- **Reasons**: conf:1, win:tail
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 140000
- **Is top pay**: no

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