Deployed Engineer
Palo Alto, CA - USA
Job Summary
Deployed Engineer
Location: Palo Alto CA / San Francisco CA / New York NY
Company Stage of Funding: Late-Stage / Hypergrowth AI Infrastructure
Office Type: On-site
Salary: $150000 $300000 Competitive Equity
Visa: Transfers supported case-by-case
Company Description
Our client is building foundational web infrastructure for AI systems creating retrieval ranking reasoning and agent interaction systems that allow AI models to consume and interact with web data more effectively.
Founded by former Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal the company is developing next-generation APIs and infrastructure powering how AI agents access retrieve and reason over internet-scale information.
Backed by Sequoia Kleiner Perkins and Khosla Ventures with over $230M raised and a reported $2B valuation the company operates at the frontier of AI infrastructure and web-scale systems.
This is a rare opportunity to join a deeply technical talent-dense organization and work directly with enterprise customers deploying cutting-edge AI systems into production.
What You Will Do
Own the full technical customer lifecycle from pre-sales to production deployment
Lead technical discovery demos POVs and implementation engagements
Act as the primary technical advisor for enterprise customers
Work directly with Fortune 500 engineering teams
Build evaluation suites harnesses and production integrations using Python
Help customers integrate Parallel APIs into AI agent systems
Run technical feasibility workshops and architecture discussions
Serve as the bridge between customer engineering teams and internal product engineering
Debug production issues and support customer deployments
Write production-quality code alongside customer teams
Build and improve agent evaluation workflows
Run and analyze eval suites for AI systems and APIs
Translate customer feedback into product and infrastructure improvements
Become a power user of Parallels AI search and agent APIs
Support enterprise AI deployments end-to-end
Operate across both technical implementation and strategic customer communication
Travel occasionally for customer engagements and onsite workshops
Work closely with engineering leadership and the CTO
Ideal Candidate Background
28 years of experience in Solutions Engineering Forward Deployed Engineering or Solutions Architecture
Strong customer-facing engineering experience
Hands-on technical implementation experience
Strong Python proficiency
Experience supporting enterprise or Fortune 500 customers
Ability to write and debug production code
Experience owning technical customer engagements
Strong communication and stakeholder management skills
Comfort operating in highly technical customer environments
Experience running demos POCs or implementation workshops
Ability to explain technical systems clearly
Strong problem-solving and debugging capabilities
Comfort with APIs infrastructure systems and AI tooling
Ability to balance customer interaction with technical execution
Strong executive presence
Comfort working onsite in fast-paced environments
Interest in AI systems LLMs and agent infrastructure
Strong Signals
Forward Deployed Engineer background
Solutions Architect experience at top-tier infrastructure companies
Experience at Snowflake Databricks MongoDB Datadog Palantir Stripe Twilio etc.
Enterprise AI infrastructure experience
Customer-facing engineering ownership
Hands-on API implementation experience
Technical pre-sales and post-sales deployment experience
Experience running evaluation frameworks and agent harnesses
Strong debugging skills
Experience working directly with enterprise engineering teams
Strong Python engineering background
AI infrastructure curiosity and technical fluency
Enterprise deployment ownership
Strong communication with executive stakeholders
Ability to navigate both technical and business conversations
Experience supporting production AI systems
Customer engineering or technical account leadership
Hybrid technical customer-facing mindset
Compensation and Benefits
Base salary: $150000 $300000
Competitive equity package
High-upside AI infrastructure opportunity
Work directly with world-class engineering leadership
Exposure to frontier AI infrastructure problems
Deep enterprise customer ownership
Flat engineering organization
Opportunity to shape customer deployment best practices
Relocation support available
Access to highly technical AI systems work
Direct collaboration with engineering and product leadership
Strong growth trajectory in deployed engineering organization
Why Join
This is an opportunity to work at the intersection of AI infrastructure enterprise deployment and customer engineering at one of the best-funded frontier AI infrastructure startups.
Youll help major enterprises deploy next-generation AI systems while working directly on retrieval reasoning and agent infrastructure powering the future web for AI.
The role combines deep technical problem-solving production engineering customer ownership and AI systems work in a highly technical environment.
If you enjoy coding enterprise problem-solving AI infrastructure and customer-facing engineering ownership this role offers exceptional leverage and career growth.
Required Experience:
IC
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