Reducto, Inc.
Founding Forward Deployed Engineer
Reducto, Inc., San Francisco, California, United States, 94199
Reducto helps AI teams ingest real world enterprise data with state of the art accuracy.
The vast majority of enterprise data — from financial statements to health records — is locked in unstructured file formats like PDFs and spreadsheets. We train vision models to read those documents the way a human would, and make it possible to build products, train models, and automate processes at scale.
We’ve grown quickly, achieving a 7x YoY revenue increase, and now work with hundreds of companies ranging from leading AI teams (Harvey, Vanta, Scale) to enterprise giants (FAANG, top 3 trading firms).
We've raised over $100M from world‑class investors such as A16z, Benchmark, and First Round Capital, and are hiring a Founding Forward Deployed Engineer who can help us capitalize on our early momentum.
The Opportunity
As our founding Forward Deployed Engineer at Reducto, you’ll be at the front lines with our customers—deploying and tuning our systems in real‑world environments. You’ll bridge the gap between our core engineering team and the unique, complex needs of our enterprise users. Expect to wear many hats: building integrations, debugging gnarly edge cases, optimizing deployment pipelines, and shipping features that materially improve the user experience. We would love to meet you if:
You have a high bar for quality and don’t settle for anything less than 100%—you ship fast, with high agency, and actively jump in to fix problems. You have 3 to 6 years of experience deploying software in production settings—ideally with enterprise or regulated customers. You’re excellent with Python and can navigate Bash and infrastructure as needed. You’re very comfortable with Kubernetes. You can build your own tools—e.g., quick Streamlit apps to test hypotheses or create datasets. You have a quantitative approach to building products, and are comfortable getting hands‑on with the full development lifecycle from ideation to shipping to users. The core work will include:
Deploying and maintaining on‑prem and VPC instances of Reducto’s systems, often with complex enterprise constraints (air‑gapped, custom auth, strict latency targets). Building tooling to make deployments faster, more reliable, and easier to debug. Creating diagnostics, dashboards, and eval harnesses to measure performance and track regressions across environments. Writing crisp internal documentation and playbooks for repeatable deployments. Collaborating closely with customers, support, and core engineers to identify high‑impact improvements. Acting as a feedback loop to the product and infra teams—surfacing usability gaps, unmet needs, and opportunities to deepen customer value. Working directly with the founders and customers to shape the product direction and engineering strategy. Additional qualifications:
Have prior experience founding a company or building products at early stages. Are ambitious, driven, and care a lot about doing great work with great people. Keep up with the latest developments in ML/AI. Benefits at Reducto
Free lunch daily at the office. Reimbursed transportation. Generous health insurance (medical, dental, vision). Health and wellness budget up to $150/mo. Parental leave schedule that works for you. Reducto is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, color, age, national origin, religion, physical and mental disability, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity/assignment, citizenship, pregnancy or maternity, protected veteran status, or any other status prohibited by applicable national, federal, state or local law.
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As our founding Forward Deployed Engineer at Reducto, you’ll be at the front lines with our customers—deploying and tuning our systems in real‑world environments. You’ll bridge the gap between our core engineering team and the unique, complex needs of our enterprise users. Expect to wear many hats: building integrations, debugging gnarly edge cases, optimizing deployment pipelines, and shipping features that materially improve the user experience. We would love to meet you if:
You have a high bar for quality and don’t settle for anything less than 100%—you ship fast, with high agency, and actively jump in to fix problems. You have 3 to 6 years of experience deploying software in production settings—ideally with enterprise or regulated customers. You’re excellent with Python and can navigate Bash and infrastructure as needed. You’re very comfortable with Kubernetes. You can build your own tools—e.g., quick Streamlit apps to test hypotheses or create datasets. You have a quantitative approach to building products, and are comfortable getting hands‑on with the full development lifecycle from ideation to shipping to users. The core work will include:
Deploying and maintaining on‑prem and VPC instances of Reducto’s systems, often with complex enterprise constraints (air‑gapped, custom auth, strict latency targets). Building tooling to make deployments faster, more reliable, and easier to debug. Creating diagnostics, dashboards, and eval harnesses to measure performance and track regressions across environments. Writing crisp internal documentation and playbooks for repeatable deployments. Collaborating closely with customers, support, and core engineers to identify high‑impact improvements. Acting as a feedback loop to the product and infra teams—surfacing usability gaps, unmet needs, and opportunities to deepen customer value. Working directly with the founders and customers to shape the product direction and engineering strategy. Additional qualifications:
Have prior experience founding a company or building products at early stages. Are ambitious, driven, and care a lot about doing great work with great people. Keep up with the latest developments in ML/AI. Benefits at Reducto
Free lunch daily at the office. Reimbursed transportation. Generous health insurance (medical, dental, vision). Health and wellness budget up to $150/mo. Parental leave schedule that works for you. Reducto is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, color, age, national origin, religion, physical and mental disability, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity/assignment, citizenship, pregnancy or maternity, protected veteran status, or any other status prohibited by applicable national, federal, state or local law.
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