Key Talent Solutions
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
- Key Talent Solutions
- Location
- San Francisco Bay Area
- Seniority
- Mid level
- Experience asked for
- 3+ years
- Pay band
- $200K – $300K
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
From the posting
A fast-growing AI company building agent monitoring and evaluation infrastructure is hiring a Forward-Deployed AI Engineer to embed their platform directly into customers' production systems. You'll work inside customer codebases, integrate monitoring and evaluation into live agent workflows, diagnose failures in real environments, and drive deployments through to reliable production use. This is a deep technical execution and customer-ownership role. The work is demanding enough that the team prioritises strong software engineers who can flex into a forward-deployed seat over people from a purely solutions background. You'll reason about agent behaviour alongside customer teams, translate high-level goals into concrete deployments, and own outcomes end-to-end. The scope, judgment and autonomy mirror what it takes to found or lead a technical company — which is the point. …
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