Founding Forward Deployed Engineer (US)

About the role

H Company is a next-generation AI research and product company building the infrastructure for autonomous, agentic AI. The Forward Deployed Team ensures its Agents are successfully implemented so customers can automate and optimize tasks, and turns field learnings back into the H platform. This founding role is hybrid and open to candidates based in San Francisco Bay Area, Austin or New York.

Key responsibilities

• Identify the customer's most important multi-step tasks to automate
• Integrate seamlessly with customer systems such as databases, third-party APIs and internal tools
• Rapidly iterate in the field with tight feedback loops to improve product fit and deliver end-to-end solutions
• Architect, build and maintain production-grade services that scale with usage and complexity
• Work with product, research and engineering teams to shape the roadmap based on field findings

Required profile

• Impressive achievements and strong technical skills, highly proficient in Python
• Around 3 years of experience in AI, able to work autonomously and with real curiosity about AI
• Customer-facing experience and excellent written and verbal communication
• Willingness to travel for on-site deployments or customer engagements

Required skills

• 3+ years of AI and software engineering experience, ideally in fast-paced environments
• Experience integrating LLMs or other agentic workflows into real products
• Heavy fluency in Python and familiarity with TypeScript
• Familiarity with FastAPI, Next.js, React and a sense of UI/UX tradeoffs
• Building and deploying production systems: APIs, services, infrastructure and data pipelines
• Secure integration of third-party APIs, databases and external systems

What we offer

• The chance to join the founding journey of an AI startup
• A competitive compensation package including equity
• A multicultural team of AI engineers, researchers and builders