Lightning AI
Forward Deployed Engineer
We captured this posting once, on 2026-07-06, and did not track it afterwards — so we cannot tell you whether it is still open.
- Employer
- Lightning AI
- Location
- San Francisco, CA
- Seniority
- Not stated
- Experience asked for
- Not stated
- Pay band
- $120K – $250K
When we saw it
- Posted 2026-07-04 — the date the employer published it
- Archived 2026-07-06 — when we saved this copy
Found via LinkedIn — US keyword pulls.
Skills the posting named
From the posting
Who We Are Lightning AI is the company behind PyTorch Lightning. Founded in 2019, we build an end-to-end platform for developing, training, and deploying AI systems—designed to take ideas from research to production with less friction. Through our merger with Voltage Park, a neocloud and AI Factory, Lightning AI combines developer-first software with cost-efficient, large-scale compute. Teams get the tools they need for experimentation, training, and production inference, with security, observability, and control built in. We serve solo researchers, startups, and large enterprises. Lightning AI operates globally with offices in New York City, San Francisco, Seattle, and London, and is backed by Coatue, Index Ventures, Bain Capital Ventures, and Firstminute. …
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