Tavus
Forward Deployed Engineer
San Francisco · Exec
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About the role
- We're roughly 90-100 people, with offices in San Francisco and London.
- But what makes this role interesting isn't our funding or stage.
- When a customer is blocked, your job isn't simply to answer their question.
Responsibilities
- You should be full-stack enough to build a working product yourself and comfortable working with AI/LLMs, real-time systems, video, or APIs.
- If you want to solve hard technical problems, build products customers will actually commercialize, own what you ship, and explore what's possible with frontier AI and video, we should talk.
Compensation
- Total compensation is roughly $180K-$230K.
Company info
- Tavus https://www.tavus.io/ is building the human interface for AI.
- We're a Series B company backed by Sequoia, Accel, Lightspeed, Index Ventures, CRV, Scale Venture Partners, and Y Combinator. We're roughly 90-100 people, with offices in San Francisco and London.
- But what makes this role interesting isn't our funding or stage. It's what a Customer Engineer actually gets to own and build here.
- The role sits at the intersection of product, engineering, and customers, and we think about it in three buckets:
- We're a Series B company backed by Sequoia, Accel, Lightspeed, Index Ventures, CRV, Scale Venture Partners, and Y Combinator.
- It's what a Customer Engineer actually gets to own and build here.
- You'll work on some of the hardest technical challenges our customers face as they build and launch products with Tavus.
- You dig into what's actually preventing them from being successful, understand the root cause, and own getting them unblocked.
- Sometimes that means debugging a complex real-time system.
- Sometimes it means finding a bug and shipping the fix yourself.
- Sometimes you realize the customer is struggling because something is missing from Tavus, so you build the feature, improve the API, or rethink part of the product experience.
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