Speakeasy Inc
Forward Deployed Engineer
San Francisco
Sponsorship not specified$180k-$230kDetected 138 days ago
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About the role
- Forward Deployed Engineers sit at the center of our customers, product, and engineering teams.
- You will work directly with engineering leaders, platform teams, security teams, and AI initiatives at some of the most sophisticated companies deploying AI today.
- This is not a traditional solutions engineering role.
Responsibilities
- Partner with Account Executives on strategic customer opportunities
- Design and deliver demos, proofs-of-concept, and pilot implementations
- Lead customer implementations of the Speakeasy AI Control Plane
- Design integrations with APIs, MCP servers, SaaS platforms, identity providers, and internal systems
- Build prototypes, proofs-of-concept, and deployment architectures
- Drive successful production rollouts and long-term adoption
Requirements
- You are comfortable moving between code, architecture discussions, customer conversations, and product strategy.
- Have 5+ years of software engineering experience
- AI agent, MCP, or LLM application experience
- Experience with enterprise software deployments
Skills
- Independently lead technical evaluations, pilots, and enterprise deployments
- Identify product gaps and influence the roadmap through direct customer engagement
- Establish best practices for enterprise AI governance and agent infrastructure
Compensation
- $180,000-$230,000 base salary + meaningful equity
- Regular company offsites
- Offices in San Francisco and London
- Small team, high ownership, significant impact
Benefits
- $180,000-$230,000 base salary + meaningful equity
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage
Company info
- You'll operate across pre-sales, deployment, product feedback, and engineering, acting as the technical bridge between our customers and our platform.
- You will partner closely with customers from initial evaluation through production deployment.
- You will often be the technical face of Speakeasy and one of the first people customers trust with mission-critical AI initiatives.
- Lead technical discovery and architecture conversations with prospective customers
- Help customers evaluate how Speakeasy fits into their AI, security, and infrastructure strategy
- Guide customers through architecture decisions and implementation tradeoffs
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