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Luma

Forward Deployed Engineer

Redwood City, CA · On-site

$168K - $252K/yr

Forward Deployed Engineers turn what Luma's models can do into systems customers actually rely on. You embed with a customer, learn their workflow, define the problem with them, and build the ...

Weaveos

Forward Deployed Engineer

San Francisco, CA · On-site

Andrew (CTO) - previously a founding engineer at Causal, MIT alum. Andrew has been in your shoes ... You'll essentially act like a forward deployed manager for their teams. * Own the customer ...

Weave

Forward Deployed Engineer

San Francisco, CA · On-site +1

Andrew (CTO) - previously a founding engineer at Causal, MIT alum. Andrew has been in your shoes ... You'll essentially act like a forward deployed manager for their teams. * Own the customer ...

LiveKit

Forward Deployed Engineer

San Francisco, CA · On-site

Forward Deployed Engineers partner closely with customers to design systems, prototype solutions, and solve complex technical challenges as teams move from experimentation to production. You'll work ...

Rime Labs

Forward Deployed Engineer

San Francisco, CA · On-site

Forward Deployed Engineer Location: San Francisco Reports To: Head of Forward Deployed Engineering OTE : $185,000 - $235,000 About Us Rime builds voice AI for enterprises running customer experiences ...

Blockstream

Forward Deployed Engineer

Menlo Park, CA · On-site

We're seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer embedded directly inside customer engineering teams, writing the code, building the tooling, integrations and configurations needed to get Blockstream ...

Capitolis

Forward Deployed Engineer

San Francisco, CA · On-site

$148K - $275K/yr

About the Role: We're hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE): a deeply technical builder and technical leader who thrives at the intersection of engineering, product, and real customer problems.

Monaco

Forward Deployed Engineer

San Francisco, CA · On-site

Forward Deployed Engineers are the tip of the spear for our most strategic customers: when Sales, CX, or GTM needs something the product can't do yet, you embed with them, take an ambiguous, high ...

Glover Labs

Forward Deployed Engineer

San Francisco, CA · On-site

The Role This is Glover's first Forward Deployed Engineering hire. Palantir pioneered the FDE model ... Founding FDE at a company building one of the most technically interesting products in enterprise ...

Turgon AI

Forward Deployed Engineer

San Francisco, CA · On-site +1

By combining elite forward-deployed engineers with our proprietary AI Agent Swarms, we map, document, and modernize massive legacy infrastructures in days, not quarters. We are turning CIOs back into ...

Turgon AI

Forward Deployed Engineer

San Francisco, CA · On-site

By combining elite forward-deployed engineers with our proprietary AI Agent Swarms, we map, document, and modernize massive legacy infrastructures in days, not quarters. We are turning CIOs back into ...

Encord

Forward Deployed Engineer

San Francisco, CA · On-site

The role We're looking for an exceptional Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) to join our product engineering team. This is an engineering-first role: FDEs are the technical owners who take the Encord ...

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Forward Deployed Engineer

Redwood City, CA • On-site

Luma
Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation • 201 - 500 employees
Learn more about Lumaexternal

$168K - $252K/yr

Full-time

Posted 19 days ago

Key responsibilities

  • Work directly with customers to understand their workflows, constraints, and goals, and define the problem yourself.

  • Build production systems on Luma's APIs, models, and internal tools.

  • Prototype, ship, iterate, and maintain systems customers depend on in real environments with real data.

Job description

Forward Deployed Engineers turn what Luma's models can do into systems customers actually rely on. You embed with a customer, learn their workflow, define the problem with them, and build the production system that solves it, with their data and their constraints. You own both the relationship and the code.
This is engineering at the edge, where ambiguity is the default and "what should we build?" is yours to answer. It's built for people who've already been the single point of ownership on a hard problem: a technical founder, the engineer who flew out and rebuilt a customer's workflow, a consultant who actually wrote the system. If you need a PRD and a well-defined ticket queue, this isn't it.
What You'll Own
  • Work directly with customers to understand their workflows, constraints, and goals, and define the problem yourself.
  • Build production systems on Luma's APIs, models, and internal tools.
  • Prototype, ship, iterate, and maintain systems customers depend on in real environments with real data.
  • Own projects end to end, from first conversation to deployed system.
  • Build around platform gaps when something's missing, and feed recurring patterns back to platform and R&D to productize.
  • Use AI to accelerate implementation, while the core of the work stays engineering judgment: what to build and how to make it reliable.

First 90 Days
One way the first 90 could unfold.
  • Days 1-30 - Immerse & Diagnose: Embed with a first customer, learn their workflow, and define the real problem.
  • Days 30-60 - Ship & Validate: Build and deploy a production system they actually use.
  • Days 60-90 - Scale & Systemize: Spot the pattern worth productizing and work with R&D to turn it into platform.

What You Bring
  • 2+ years of professional software engineering, with software shipped end to end.
  • Strong proficiency in at least one general-purpose language (Python, TypeScript, Go, or similar).
  • Ability to work across the stack and learn unfamiliar systems quickly.
  • Bachelor's in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
  • Willingness to travel to client sites as needed.

Nice to Have
  • A track record of shipping real systems with real users, not just assigned tasks.
  • High agency and strong prioritization: you find the core problem and move.
  • Comfort defining your own path when there isn't one.
  • Evidence of working directly with customers and translating what you heard into what you built.
  • Clear communication, including explaining a technical decision to a non-technical stakeholder.

Note: this body covers Forward Deployed Engineer (SF Bay Area) and Forward Deployed Engineer, EU (London / Remote UK / Munich).
About Luma: Luma's mission is to build unified general intelligence that can generate, understand, and operate in the physical world. We believe multimodality is critical for intelligence - the next step beyond language models comes from vision. Luma is an equal opportunity employer.
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Industry

Arts, entertainment, and recreation

Company size

201 - 500 Employees

Headquarters location

Santa Monica, CA, US

Year founded

2002

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