Forward Deployed Engineer
Cartesia · San Francisco, CA · 5 days ago
On-siteEngineeringFull-time
About the role
We’re hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer to advance our mission of building real-time multimodal intelligence by embedding directly with enterprise customers and delivering agentic voice AI solutions into their production environments.
Your Impact
- Write and ship production-grade code
- Design, build, and deploy voice AI systems that power real enterprise workflows
- Own deployments end-to-end – Lead discovery, architecture, implementation, and rollout for strategic customer engagements
- Drive progress in ambiguity – Move projects forward when requirements are incomplete, constraints evolve, or systems fail in unexpected ways
- Deliver across complex infrastructure – Deploy across cloud, VPC, and on-prem environments while navigating security, networking, and compliance requirements
- Unblock critical integrations – Diagnose and resolve integration failures, performance bottlenecks, and deployment issues under real-world constraints
- Drive expansion through building – Identify new use cases and prototype solutions that deepen adoption and increase long-term customer value
- Turn customer signal into platform leverage – Surface recurring patterns to engineering and product teams, influencing roadmap and reusable capabilities
- Build for scale – Transform one-off solutions into repeatable playbooks, templates, and reference architectures.
What You Bring
- 4+ years of experience building and operating production software systems
- Strong backend engineering fundamentals and a track record of delivering reliable systems
- Experience integrating APIs and distributed services into real-world infrastructure
- Comfort operating across cloud and containerized environments (AWS, GCP, Kubernetes)
- Experience navigating enterprise constraints: authentication, networking, observability, and security reviews
- Able to take ambiguous problems, define structure, and drive them to resolution
- High ownership and bias for action – you move quickly without waiting for perfect specs
- Clear, structured communicator comfortable engaging with senior technical stakeholders
Nice-to-haves
- Experience in forward-deployed, solutions, implementation, or customer-facing engineering roles
- Experience deploying AI/ML systems into production environments
- Familiarity with real-time systems (voice, streaming APIs, telephony, low-latency systems)
- Experience with on-prem or hybrid infrastructure deployments
- Multilingual fluency or experience supporting customers across international markets and non-English language deployments
- Startup or founder experience