Operon (YC S26)
Founding FDE
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
- Operon (YC S26)
- Location
- San Francisco, CA
- Seniority
- Not stated
- Experience asked for
- Not stated
- Pay band
- $100K – $150K
When we saw it
- Posted 2026-08-03 — the date the employer published it
- Archived 2026-08-05 — when we saved this copy
Found via LinkedIn — US keyword pulls.
From the posting
Founding Forward Deployment Engineer Operon is building the context layer for AI agents in industrial enterprise, the infrastructure that lets AI actually understand what's happening on a job site, in a facility, or across a fleet of equipment. We're four months old, YC-backed, and we're deploying our first product in the Process and Manufacturing Industry. This is not a polish-and-ship role. You'll be on the ground with customers, figuring out how our software fits into messy real-world workflows, and feeding that directly back into what we build. What You’ll Have Full ownership of projects. You will define what “Forward Deployed Engineering” means at Operon. What You’ll Do Embed with customers to understand engineering workflows at the source. Ship production code across backend, frontend, data pipelines, and AI workflows. …
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