Acacia Consulting

Forward Deployed Engineer

We captured this posting once, on 2026-08-05, and did not track it afterwards — so we cannot tell you whether it is still open.

Employer
Acacia Consulting
Location
Mountain View, CA
Seniority
Mid level
Experience asked for
3+ years
Pay band
$160K – $210K

When we saw it

  • Posted 2026-07-28 — the date the employer published it
  • Archived 2026-08-05 — when we saved this copy

Found via LinkedIn — US keyword pulls.

Skills the posting named

ai agent developmentAI designresearch collaborationcustomer partnershipevaluation frameworkspattern creationpython

From the posting

Our client is the world’s only model lab dedicated exclusively to customer experience and pioneering agentic models purpose-built for reliable action-taking enterprise applications. Backed by Khosla Ventures, the company’s flagship Agentic Pretrained Transformer (APT) eliminates hallucinations, enforces enterprise policies and increases reliability in real-world CX workflows. Founded by serial AI entrepreneurs, former Microsoft Corporate Vice President of Conversational AI , and UC Berkeley AI Professor and built by a team of world-class PhD researchers and engineers. As a Forward Deployed Engineer, you'll have significant autonomy to build, test, and deploy AI agents that solve real problems across industries. …

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