The Prompting Company
Founding Forward Deployed Engineer
This posting was open on The Prompting Company's own careers board when we last checked it.
- Employer
- The Prompting Company
- Location
- San Francisco, CA, US
- Seniority
- Entry level
- Experience asked for
- 1+ years
- Pay band
- $100K – $150K
When we saw it
- First seen 2026-07-23 — the first scan of ours that found it
- Last seen open 2026-07-23
- Archived 2026-07-23 — when we saved this copy
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From the posting
The Prompting Company is building the infrastructure layer for the AI internet. Today, people discover products through search engines. Tomorrow, discovery happens through AI systems like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity. We help companies understand how they appear inside these AI systems and improve their visibility across AI-generated answers. We're looking for a **Founding Forward Deployed Engineer** who can work directly with customers to implement our product, understand their business goals, and ensure they get real measurable outcomes. This role sits at the intersection of **engineering, product, and revenue**. You will work directly with founders, growth teams, and developers at companies using our platform. Your job is to understand their stack, integrate our technology into their workflows, and ensure we are measuring the metrics that matter. …
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