Reactor

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
Reactor
Location
San Francisco, CA
Seniority
Mid level
Experience asked for
3+ years
Pay band
Not disclosed

When we saw it

  • Posted 2026-05-06 — 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

ml engineeringpytorchml inference optimizationmodel deploymentmodel optimizationproduct decision makingcustomer partnershippython

From the posting

Department: Engineering Location: San Francisco Description This role sits at the intersection of ML engineering and customer partnership. You will be the person who makes it real for our lab partners, going on-site to their offices, understanding their models deeply, and doing whatever it takes to get them running at production quality on Reactor's infrastructure. This is not a support role. You will be making critical technical and product decisions and working directly with the founders. You will be one of the first people to define what forward deployment looks like at Reactor. …

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