Forward Deployed Engineer
Raydar
Forward Deployed Engineer
Raydar
AI-powered recruiting agency for tech roles
Raydar · Los Altos, United States · Full-time · Posted 2026-11-12
Salary: USD 130,000–170,000
Workplace: on_site
About the company
Our client is a technology company.
The role
Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Serve as the hands-on technical lead for a client rollout, pairing customer-facing communication with production coding across the implementation. The role suits an engineer who can explain technical ideas to non-specialists while shipping reliable code in a regulated setting.
What you'll do
- Lead implementation for client accounts, loading their course materials, documents and recordings into the platform's knowledge and data models.
- Manage prompts and service orchestration within a restricted cloud environment under strict security controls.
- Build client-requested features across front-end and back-end code, including interface changes, new data tables and file handling.
- Lead customer calls and explain AI concepts in plain language for non-technical audiences.
- Divide time between hands-on coding, customer work and internal coordination, with roughly half the week spent coding.
- Travel to client sites during the early phases of a project.
What we're looking for
- One to three years of experience in an engineering role.
- Hands-on experience with a major cloud AI platform such as AWS, Azure or GCP.
- A bachelor's degree in computer science or a STEM-related field.
- Experience shipping LLM or agent systems to production.
- Solid hands-on coding ability in a server-side scripting language, a typed web language and a React-based web framework.
- Background delivering software in public-sector or compliance-bound environments that carry formal authorization requirements.
- Willingness to work on-site five days a week.
Bonus points
- Experience working in a fast-paced environment building new products from scratch.
Compensation and benefits
- Base salary: $130K - $170K
- Equity
Location and work model
- Los Altos, CA, United States
- On-site, 5 days in-office per week
- Full-time
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Raydar is an AI-powered talent acquisition firm that serves tech-focused organizations on a contingency basis, charging client companies only after a successful hire. It uses proprietary AI to identify a large pool of candidates and conducts a short 15-minute AI-driven interview (recorded and transcribed) before human recruiters review materials, provide interview prep, and assist with offers and negotiations. What sets it apart is the blend of automated sourcing and screening with hands-on human oversight and tailored client support. Its goal is to help organizations hire more efficiently by speeding up sourcing while maintaining thorough evaluation and negotiation assistance.
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