HartleyCo
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
- HartleyCo
- Location
- San Francisco Bay Area
- Seniority
- Not stated
- Experience asked for
- Not stated
- Pay band
- $150K – $200K
When we saw it
- Posted 2026-07-23 — 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
I’m working with a YC startup building AI systems that are being deployed directly into real-world enterprise workflows. They’ve recently raised their Seed round, signed initial customers, and are now looking for a highly technical engineer who wants to operate closer to the business, product, and customer problems rather than sitting in a siloed engineering function. This is not a traditional solutions engineer role. You’ll be: building AI agents writing production code designing infrastructure deploying systems into customer environments working directly with enterprise stakeholders to solve operational problems The founders are specifically looking for engineers who can both: build at a high technical level communicate clearly with customers The backgrounds they tend to like: early engineers at AI startups Palantir / FDSE-style profiles strong backend or product engineers from high-ca …
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