Crunchyroll
Forward Deployed Engineer
Los Angeles, California, United States · Senior
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Based on the DOL prevailing wage for this occupation and worksite, a base salary of $189,051 would place this position at wage Level IV. That figure is within the posted range, and I'd like to target it. This role classifies under "Software Developers" for prevailing-wage purposes.
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About the role
- This role combines strong business judgment and consultative problem-solving with hands-on engineering.
- You'll take problems from ambiguity through prototype, production, and adoption.
- You'll be part of AI Enablement in the Executive Office, working across Crunchyroll to turn high-value business problems into practical AI-powered solutions, including agents, workflow automation, and other applied AI systems.
Responsibilities
- Identify where AI can create meaningful business value. Start with the problem, not the technology, and be willing to conclude that AI is not the right answer.
- Translate ambiguous business problems into clear technical plans, including architecture, data flows, integration points, permissions, tool usage, success criteria, and build vs. buy vs. integrate decisions.
- Prototype quickly to test whether an idea works before over-engineering it. Know when to build something in days to learn and when a problem warrants production-grade infrastructure.
- Design and build reliable AI systems end-to-end, including tool use, orchestration, context and prompt engineering, state and memory, structured outputs, APIs, enterprise integrations, and human-in-the-loop workflows.
- Build evaluations and observability from the start. Define task-level success criteria and eval sets, and instrument tracing, logging, monitoring, cost, quality, and drift so performance is measurable in production.
- Define the expected business outcome before you build and measure whether the solution actually improves the workflow after launch.
- Stay close to users after launch. Observe how solutions perform in real workflows, iterate based on usage and feedback, and partner with the broader AI Enablement team on adoption and change management.
- Build for handoff and scale. Establish clear ownership, documentation, monitoring, and maintenance paths so successful solutions can transition to the appropriate long-term owner.
- Create reusable components, patterns, tools, and learnings that make future AI solutions faster and easier to build across Crunchyroll.
- 6+ years of software engineering experience, including significant recent experience building and shipping applied AI or LLM-powered systems in production.
Requirements
- Experience with APIs, MCP, event-driven systems, enterprise SaaS integrations, and internal data systems.
- You'll connect models to the systems, tools, and data teams already use, and build the context, evaluations, guardrails, and human checkpoints required for them to work reliably in the real world.
Compensation
- The Pay Range for this position is listed.
- $183,400 - $229,200 USD
Benefits
- Receive a great compensation package including salary plus performance bonus earning potential, paid annually.
- Flexible time off policies allowing you to take the time you need to be your whole self.
- Generous medical, dental, vision, STD, LTD, and life insurance
- Health Saving Account HSA program
- Health care and dependent care FSA
- Employer paid commuter benefit
- The range listed is just one component of Crunchyroll's Total Rewards offerings for employees.
- Other rewards may include performance bonuses, employer matched retirement savings, time-off programs, and progressive health benefits and perks.
- Pursuant to applicable law, we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
Company info
- About Crunchyroll
- Founded by fans, Crunchyroll delivers the art and culture of anime to a passionate community.
- We super-serve over 100 million anime and manga fans across 200+ countries and territories, and help them connect with the stories and characters they crave.
- Whether that experience is online or in-person, streaming video, theatrical, games, merchandise, events and more, it's powered by the anime content we all love.
- Join our team, and help us shape the future of anime!
- 401(k) plan, with employer match
- Pet insurance and some of our offices are pet friendly!
Equal opportunity
- Our commitment to diversity and inclusion
- We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at Crunchyroll.
This listing is sourced directly from Crunchyroll's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.