Blaxel
Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE)
San Francisco
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 69 days ago
TypeScriptGoRustNode.jsVector DatabasesAWSGCPAzureCloud PlatformsDockerKubernetesCI/CDLinuxLLMsAgentic AIAI OrchestrationCustomer Success
About the role
- This is a hands-on engineering role with direct customer ownership.
- Some days you'll be onsite at customer's office mapping a customer's architecture and success criteria.
- Other days you'll be deep in code debugging an agent deployment, agent-LLM networking behavior, or sandbox runtime issues.
Responsibilities
- Lead end-to-end technical discovery & implementation for strategic customer deployments.
- Build on Blaxel platform APIs, SDKs, sandboxes, CI/CD systems, observability tools, as well as customer infrastructure.
- High ownership: You don't stop at diagnosis. You drive problems through implementation, validation, documentation, and follow-up.
- You drive problems through implementation, validation, documentation, and follow-up.
Requirements
- Customer-obsessed builder: You enjoy working directly with users and shipping solutions that solve real problems while ensuring retained success for the Blaxel product.
- Strong engineer: You can write production code, navigate unfamiliar codebases quickly, and make pragmatic technical tradeoffs.
- Systems generalist: You are comfortable moving between APIs, cloud infrastructure, containers, networking, observability, and application logic.
- Fast in ambiguity: You can turn incomplete context into a concrete plan, then iterate as you learn.
- Excellent communicator: You can explain tradeoffs clearly, align stakeholders, and keep momentum during tense debugging sessions.
- Prior forward-deployed, solutions, platform, customer engineering, founding engineer, or high-context consulting experience is helpful but not required.
Nice to have
- Strong proficiency in TypeScript/Node or Python.
- Experience with Go, Rust, or systems-level engineering is a plus.
Skills
- Strong proficiency in TypeScript/Node or Python. Experience with Go, Rust, or systems-level engineering is a plus.
- Comfort with APIs, Docker, Kubernetes or similar orchestration, AWS/GCP/Azure, Linux, networking fundamentals, and CI/CD.
- Blaxel is AWS for AI agents.
- Traditional clouds weren't built for agentic workloads.
Company info
- We're looking for a world-class Forward Deployed Engineer to help strategic customers deploy Blaxel in real production environments.
- You will work directly with customer teams, founders, and Blaxel's
- Working side by side with our customers and interacting closely with Blaxel's Product & Engineering teams, you'll own the technical path from customer issues to successful deployment.
This listing is sourced directly from Blaxel's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.