Plastic Labs Forward Deployed Engineer

Source: Paraform - $190000-$235000 base competitive equity. Relocation support $5K.

Location: Williamsburg Brooklyn NY (Domino Sugar Factory) - on-site 5 days/week. Visa: not open to any visas (US citizen / Green Card).

Forward Deployed Engineer with 3 years of experience to own enterprise customer relationships end-to-end from pre-sales demos to post-sales integration for Honcho Plastic Labs AI memory and identity infrastructure. First dedicated FDE at a fast-growing neolab (50x developer growth in 3 months) that trains its own models and is the #1 trusted memory provider in the agentic AI ecosystem.

• Manage enterprise deal flow end-to-end: triage inbound move customers through the pipeline deliver on commitments

• Build demos and collateral (slide decks one-pagers reference integrations) tailored to each customers vertical and use case

• Embed with customers post-sale: audit their codebases and build Honcho integrations directly

• Educate enterprise customers on agentic engineering mental models and how to leverage Honcho

• Feed customer friction and insights back to the dev team to improve the product

Python FastAPI TypeScript JavaScript SQL REST APIs Docker Kubernetes AWS GCP LLMs Agentic Frameworks

Engineering-driven AI lab (ML cognitive science) building Honcho open-source continual-learning infrastructure for AI memory and identity modeling; trains proprietary models for theory-of-mind identity inference. Backed by Long Journey Ventures Four Rivers Group Mozilla Ventures Greycroft Betaworks Differential Ventures Variant. 15 people founded 2023 $9M total funding Brooklyn.

• 3-5 years with a solid software engineering foundation ideally moving into customer-facing work

• Comfortable owning pre-sales demos through post-sales integration

• Python/FastAPI TypeScript/JavaScript SQL REST APIs; Docker/Kubernetes AWS/GCP; LLMs and agentic frameworks

• High-agency autodidact; generalist

• US citizen or Green Card holder (no visa sponsorship); 5 days in office in Williamsburg Brooklyn