What are the responsibilities and job description for the Forward Deployed Engineer position at Blona?
Hey there! We're lending a hand to two awesome CEOs of some buzzing startups in SF to find a stellar Forward Deployed Engineer working closely with their customers on exciting use-cases.
The Forward Deployed Engineering team combines technical expertise with a deep understanding of customer needs and business objectives to contribute to the successful development and evolution of our software and product. In this role, you will work with some of the most critical organizations in the world to deploy AI in production. You’ll help build, maintain, test, and innovate on our core product offering for our customers. As an early member of the engineering team, you will have an immense impact on our product and customers. You’ll also play a foundational role in strategic decisions, delivering immediate value and redefining what’s possible for customers with our unique automation technology.
Tasks
- Own end-to-end execution of high stakes projects: A day might span discussing architecture with fellow engineers, wrangling massive-scale data, coding a custom web app, speaking with customer executives
- Work on tuning our AI platform to customer requirements: Work with large language models of different kinds to juice out high level of effectiveness based on customer requirements
- Realize breakthroughs to enable novel AI-first workflows: A highly analytical approach and eagerness to solve technical problems with data structures, storage systems, cloud infrastructure, front-end frameworks, and other technical tools
Requirements
- Strong technical experience: 1-2 years of prior full-time industry experience in software development / solutions engineering, preferably with a focus on AI. Proficiency in one or more of Python, Typescript, Node, React, Next.js or similar languages
- Strong customer-facing experience: 2 years of professional experience in a role that involved building alongside customers (e.g., previous founding engineer roles, founder, forward deployed / solutions role at another top-tier company like Palantir, Scale AI)
- Product mindset: You have a strong product mindset, can put yourselves in the shoes of a user and critically think through UX to ensure releases are well rounded
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment: Ability to collaborate efficiently in teams of technical and non-technical individuals, and comfortable working in a dynamic environment with evolving objectives and iteration with users
- Excited to wear multiple hats: You’re excited to iterate and work with customers, do product and release management all while shipping features fast
- LLM experience is a big plus: Have experience with leveraging LLM APIs
- Grit: experience working at early-stage startups is a plus
Can't wait to hear from you!
Salary : $120,000 - $200,000