Senior Forward Deployed Engineer
Raydar
Senior Forward Deployed Engineer
Raydar
AI-powered recruiting agency for tech roles
Raydar · San Francisco, United States · Full-time · Posted 2026-11-03
Salary: USD 180,000–250,000
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. A senior engineer who owns large customer deployments from initial evaluation through rollout and expansion, working directly with the client's technical teams. The role involves debugging complex software live in restricted, self-hosted environments and balancing field work with contributions to the core product.
What you'll do
- Lead one or two large, multi-month customer deployments from initial evaluation through rollout and expansion.
- Troubleshoot a Python backend and React frontend live with customer engineers across Linux, containers, networking and file systems.
- Run training sessions, track issues and document them, then close the loop once fixes ship.
- Contribute to core product work between customer escalations and pass field learnings to the product roadmap.
- Travel occasionally to customer sites.
What we're looking for
- 2 to 6 years of experience in a technical role.
- A history of driving customer-facing technical projects independently from kickoff to delivery, in roles such as forward deployed engineer or early employee at a startup.
- Experience owning several technical engagements at the same time.
- Deep Linux and Unix systems skills, including hands-on container setup, container networking and network file systems.
- Strong Python skills and the ability to learn a large codebase quickly.
- Experience at a leading AI, defense or hardware startup.
- An engineering bachelor's degree from a highly ranked school.
Bonus points
- Familiarity with hardware design and verification tools and methods.
- Experience with EDA tools and CAD flows.
- Background building early-stage products or working in machine learning would be a plus.
Compensation and benefits
- Base salary: $180K - $250K per year
- Equity
- Health, dental and vision coverage
- Retirement plan
Location and work model
- San Francisco, 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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