Prelude

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
Prelude
Location
United States
Seniority
Not stated
Experience asked for
Not stated
Pay band
$200K – $320K

When we saw it

  • Posted 2026-04-16 — 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

full-stack engineeringproblem-solvingexternal system integrationoperating systemscommunicationinterpersonal skillscustomer empathybusiness acumenfacing workreacttypescriptrust

From the posting

About Origin By Prelude Origin is building the endpoint AI observability platform for AI-adopting organizations. We believe that organizations should not adopt AI on their endpoints without observability in place, and we want to be the platform that maximizes the productivity & safety of that adoption. The company exists to maximize the diffusion of intelligence inside an organization, maximize the productivity of agentic systems and the humans driving them, keep agent actions traceable end-to-end so that when a user asks for something in a prompt they can verify the agent actually did what was expected, and give organizations one interface to answer the hardest questions they have about how work gets done. Our platform monitors and protects some of the most important organizations in the world. We are backed by Sequoia Capital, Brightmind Ventures, IA Ventures and other top firms. …

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