Confidential
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
- Confidential
- Location
- Redwood City, CA
- Seniority
- Mid level
- Experience asked for
- 5+ years
- Pay band
- $230K – $300K
When we saw it
- Posted 2026-07-26 — 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
From the posting
Forward Deployed Engineer (Post-Sales) Location: Redwood City, CA Work model: Hybrid — 4 days/week in-office, plus travel to customer sites Salary: $230K–$300K base + very competitive equity I'm hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer for a well-funded AI company whose platform makes model training data dramatically more efficient — cutting training time and cost while improving model performance, and letting smaller models outperform much larger ones. You'd be the trusted technical advisor for the company's most strategic customers, owning their deployments end to end. Equally comfortable in a customer boardroom and deep in infrastructure configs. The problem you'd help solve: A large share of training compute is wasted on data that a model has already learned, doesn't need, or is actively harmed by. …
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