Founding Forward Deployed Engineer

San Francisco on site Until 8/22/2026 First posted March 18, 2026 Last posted March 18, 2026
Job description

As our founding Forward Deployed Engineer at Emanate, 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. Moreover, you’ll build out the foundation of how this org will grow and expand. Expect to wear many hats: building integrations, debugging gnarly edge cases, optimizing deployment pipelines, and shipping features that materially improve the user experience.

About this role

Summary

Deploying and tuning systems in customer environments, building integrations, debugging, and optimizing pipelines.

Job title

Founding Forward Deployed Engineer

Experience level

founder level

Industry

software

Location requirements

San Francisco, on-site role only.

Salary

Not specified

Management role

No

Skills & keywords

Required skills

deploymentdebuggingintegrationsoftware engineering

Preferred skills

edge casesuser experience

Specializations

deploymentintegrationdebuggingoptimization
Locations

Structured locations inferred from the posting.

San Francisco, CA, USA

On-site City