Cypress HCM

Forward Deployed Engineer

We captured this posting once, on 2026-05-22, and did not track it afterwards — so we cannot tell you whether it is still open.

Employer
Cypress HCM
Location
San Francisco, CA
Seniority
Not stated
Experience asked for
Not stated
Pay band
$180K – $250K

When we saw it

  • Posted 2026-05-06 — the date the employer published it
  • Archived 2026-05-22 — when we saved this copy

Found via LinkedIn — US keyword pulls.

Skills the posting named

technical deploymentsperformance tuningarchitecture designbenchmarkingoperational hardeningcodingcode contributionproduct feedback capturecomplex issue resolutionrustpythonkubernetes

From the posting

Forward Deployed Engineer Location: San Francisco, CA | Remote with mostly local travel (driving) to visit customers Employees: 35 | Industry: Vector Databases, Machine Learning, AI | Reports To: VP, Engineering Responsibilities Leading onsite and remote technical deployments for one or more customers, embedding yourself into their team and organization for several months at a time Performance tuning, architecture design, benchmarking, operational hardening Writing Rust and Python code for integrations, SDK enhancements, ingestion pipelines, and internal tooling Contributing code upstream to core repositories – bug fixes, performance improvements, new features, and architectural refinements informed by customer use cases Capturing product feedback from customer engagements – influencing the roadmap and design Integrating our client’s product into data and AI infrastructure stacks Diagnos …

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