Linkup
Founding Forward Deployed Engineer
NYC (NY) or San Francisco (CA) · Staff+
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 260 days ago
Distributed SystemsRESTMachine LearningAgentic AIAI OrchestrationProduct StrategyOutbound SalesCustomer SuccessCustomer SupportRobotics
About the role
- Your mission: help leading AI companies, developers, and enterprises integrate Linkup's AI-ready search APIs into their products - and shape how the next generation of AI agents connects to the web.
Responsibilities
- Participate in pre-sales efforts - technical discovery, proof-of-concept design, demo environments.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with backend, ML, and product teams to ensure performance and reliability at scale.
- Partner with the GTM Engineer and DevRel team to turn customer learnings into automation, tutorials, and playbooks.
- Identify and implement technical integrations with our other partners ****in the value chain (workflow orchestration, AI frameworks, etc.)
- Every integration you build helps define how AI systems connect to live, trusted information.
- If you love blending engineering with impact - building things users actually depend on - this role is for you.
- 4+ years in technical support engineering, software engineering, or solutions engineering, with direct application development experience.
- These digital entities can create more value for humanity than we ever could alone, but they depend on the internet to operate, collaborate, take action, and gather information.
- To perform well, they require information that is current, reliable, and context‑specific-not the diffuse, steadily aging knowledge frozen at their last training cut‑off.
- This foundation delivers verified facts and rich context to AI instantly, unlocking faster reasoning, higher accuracy, and radically more useful answers for everyone.
Requirements
- Search for AI must be rebuilt from the ground up.
Skills
- Understand web infrastructure, distributed systems, or retrieval pipelines.
- Are comfortable debugging integrations and solving ambiguous technical challenges in customer environments.
- Communicate clearly and empathetically with both technical and business audiences.
- Are curious about AI infrastructure, retrieval, and the emerging agentic ecosystem.
- Thrive in a fast-paced, high-ownership startup environment.
- Identify recurring customer needs that can become productized templates or automation.
Company info
- Mission. We believe we play a critical role in building the agentic web. We are 100% committed to our mission of bringing the reality of the world to AI agents.
- Speed. We build fast, we build to last. We get things done, well.
- Ownership. We empower every team member to take ownership of their projects, ensuring they see them through to successful completion.
- Teamwork. Our strength lies in our unity. We rely on one another and embrace our diversity as a core asset.
- Humility. We maintain low egos, showing respect for others and continuously learning from their insights and experiences.
- Reality never stands still, and neither should intelligence.
- Linkup reconnects language models to a living stream of verified facts, ensuring AIs remain as current and insightful as the world they serve.
- Our culture is built on the following values:
- We expect all team member to take an active role in shaping our company culture.
- We are small technical team, working shoulder to shoulder to build the web of agents.
- A bit more about our 3 co-founders:
- Philippe Mizrahi https://www.linkedin.com/in/philippe-mizrahi/- Led the development of Lyft's Autonomous Vehicles marketplace. Previously launched Amundsen https://www.amundsen.io/, an open source search engine.
- Denis Charrier https://www.linkedin.com/in/denis-charrier/- Founding Engineer at Niland, an audio search company (acquired by Spotify), then Staff Engineer at Spotify. 15y of software development experience.
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