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Forward Deployed Engineer at Idler

Department: Engineering

Compensation

$125,000 – $400,000/yr

Setup
On-site
Location
San Francisco, California
Type
Full-time
Level
senior
Posted

Description

Idler is hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer to serve as a customer- and partner-facing technical expert for its frontier-data research business. The role owns the end-to-end product pipeline, manages technical and relational customer and partner lifecycles, builds reusable onboarding tooling, and works directly with researchers and company leaders to understand model-evaluation and reinforcement-learning needs. It requires a strong engineering foundation, advanced programming in Python, TypeScript, or a similar language, excellent communication, a record of exceptional performance, and willingness to travel. The position is in-person in San Francisco and includes salary, equity, healthcare, retirement benefits, paid time off, meals, and relocation assistance.

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