Forward Deployed Engineer

About the company Our client is a technology company. The role Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Serve as the hands-on technical lead for a client rollout, pairing customer-facing communication with production coding across the implementation. The role suits an engineer who can explain technical ideas to non-specialists while shipping reliable code in a regulated setting. What you'll do - Lead implementation for client accounts, loading their course materials, documents and recordings into the platform's knowledge and data models. - Manage prompts and service orchestration within a restricted cloud environment under strict security controls. - Build client-requested features across front-end and back-end code, including interface changes, new data tables and file handling. - Lead customer calls and explain AI concepts in plain language for non-technical audiences. - Divide time between hands-on coding, customer work and internal coordination, with roughly half the week spent coding. - Travel to client sites during the early phases of a project. Requirements What we're looking for - One to three years of experience in an engineering role. - Hands-on experience with a major cloud AI platform such as AWS, Azure or GCP. - A bachelor's degree in computer science or a STEM-related field. - Experience shipping LLM or agent systems to production. - Solid hands-on coding ability in a server-side scripting language, a typed web language and a React-based web framework. - Background delivering software in public-sector or compliance-bound environments that carry formal authorization requirements. - Willingness to work on-site five days a week. Bonus points - Experience working in a fast-paced environment building new products from scratch. Benefits Compensation and benefits - Base salary: $130K - $170K - Equity Location and work model - Los Altos, CA, United States - On-site, 5 days in-office per week - Full-time