DRH Search
Founding Forward Deployed Engineer
DRH Search, San Francisco, California, United States, 94199
Overview
We're assisting a well‑funded startup with their search for Founding Forward Deployed Engineers. Their product helps AI teams turn complex documents into LLM‑ready inputs with exceptional accuracy. This role will work onsite in the SF office. What You’ll Do
Deploying and maintaining on-prem and VPC instances of the systems, often with complex enterprise constraints (e.g. 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. Ideal Candidate Traits
You have a high bar for quality and don’t rest until the job is done right—no settling for 90%. We want someone who ships fast, with high agency, and who doesn't just voice problems but actively jumps in to fix them. 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. Tools: Build your own tools as needed—like a quick Streamlit app to test hypotheses or create a dataset. Approach: A quantitative approach to building products. Ability to debug, experiment, and iterate fast. You should be comfortable getting hands‑on with the full development lifecycle, from ideation to shipping to users. Nice to Haves
Prior experience founding a company or building products at early stages. You are ambitious and driven, and care a lot about doing great work with great people. You keep up with the latest developments in ML/AI.
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We're assisting a well‑funded startup with their search for Founding Forward Deployed Engineers. Their product helps AI teams turn complex documents into LLM‑ready inputs with exceptional accuracy. This role will work onsite in the SF office. What You’ll Do
Deploying and maintaining on-prem and VPC instances of the systems, often with complex enterprise constraints (e.g. 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. Ideal Candidate Traits
You have a high bar for quality and don’t rest until the job is done right—no settling for 90%. We want someone who ships fast, with high agency, and who doesn't just voice problems but actively jumps in to fix them. 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. Tools: Build your own tools as needed—like a quick Streamlit app to test hypotheses or create a dataset. Approach: A quantitative approach to building products. Ability to debug, experiment, and iterate fast. You should be comfortable getting hands‑on with the full development lifecycle, from ideation to shipping to users. Nice to Haves
Prior experience founding a company or building products at early stages. You are ambitious and driven, and care a lot about doing great work with great people. You keep up with the latest developments in ML/AI.
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