Shakudo
Forward Deployed Engineer
Menlo Park
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 78 days ago
TypeScriptPythonJavaGoiOSSnowflakeDatabricksAWSAzureCloud PlatformsKubernetesLinuxMachine LearningSparkAirflowData EngineeringData ScienceLLMsRAGMLOpsA/B TestingIncident ResponseForecastingSupply Chain
About the role
- We use the term "operating system" in the truest sense: just like iOS, Windows, or Linux, Shakudo's end-to-end OS provides ever-evolving, fully automated, best-in-class open-source components tailored to each business's unique needs.
- This is an outcome-based engineering role.
- A successful engagement is not a demo, a prototype, or an installation.
Responsibilities
- Build and deploy AI and data applications on Shakudo, including agentic workflows, RAG systems, data pipelines, integrations, evaluations, and operational automation.
- Design and implement production data workflows across enterprise environments, including ingestion, transformation, orchestration, data quality, access control, and observability.
- Partner with customer engineering, platform, data, and security teams to get systems live, governed, adopted, and measurable.
- Participate in PagerDuty-based production support for customer deployments, including incident response, escalation, root-cause analysis, and follow-up remediation.
- understanding the customer's workflows and data, designing the solution, building and deploying it on Shakudo, and helping the customer adopt it in real operations.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience across software, data, platform, infrastructure, or AI engineering roles, including:
- 5+ years working with Kubernetes and cloud-native infrastructure in production environments.
- Strong experience with major cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
- Experience with a modern data stack such as Spark, Airflow, Databricks, Snowflake, or similar.
- Ability to apply AI to real-world operational data, such as sensor data, geospatial data, logistics data, ERP data, field operations data, or forecasting data.
- Proficiency in at least one production programming language such as Python, Go, TypeScript, Java, or Scala.
- 3+ years building LLM/AI applications such as RAG, agents, evaluations, workflow automation, or production AI systems.
- Strong data engineering background, including pipelines, orchestration, transformation, data quality, access controls, and production data workflows.
- Experience building or deploying AI, data, or automation solutions in highly regulated or operationally complex industries, such as financial services, government, healthcare, energy, agriculture, supply chain, or industrial operations.
- Strong systems thinking across data, users, permissions, workflows, infrastructure, governance, and business processes.
- Excellent customer-facing communication skills with engineers, operators, security teams, executives, and business owners.
- Strong ownership mindset: you care about production rollout, adoption, reliability, operational handoff, and measurable impact.
Nice to have
- you care about production rollout, adoption, reliability, operational handoff, and measurable impact.
- Willingness to travel to customer sites as needed.
- Experience in a forward deployed, professional services, solutions architecture, customer engineering, field engineering, or technical consulting role.
- Experience delivering outcome-based customer engagements where success was measured by adoption, operational improvement, or business impact.
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code and production operations.
- Experience working with enterprise security, compliance, audit, access control, and governance requirements.
- Experience integrating AI or data systems with enterprise applications, internal APIs, data platforms, or customer-specific operational tools.
- Experience leading senior technical stakeholders through architecture reviews, security reviews, implementation planning, and production-readiness decisions.
Compensation
- Shakudo offers a high-impact package: competitive salary, meaningful equity so you share in the upside of transformational technology, and comprehensive health benefits that have you fully covered.
Benefits
- competitive salary, meaningful equity so you share in the upside of transformational technology, and comprehensive health benefits that have you fully covered.
- We provide a flexible vacation policy-because building transformational technology requires supporting the people who build it.
Equal opportunity
- equal opportunity employer and encourages candidates of all backgrounds to apply.
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