Forward Deployed Engineer
Arcadeai, San Francisco, CA
- Pay
- Not listed by the employer
- Work type
- Hybrid
- Level
- Not stated
- Area
- Software engineering
- Posted
- Sep 4, 2026
About the role
Everyone's talking about AI. But here's the truth: ChatGPT can't send your emails. It can't book your flights. It can't even order you lunch.
Why? Because AI is trapped in a chat box. It can't take real actions in the real world.
We are changing that forever. We're not just building another AI company - we're creating the infrastructure that will power every AI application you'll use in the future.
The Revolution Needs You
Every AI app needs agentic "tools" - special functions that let AI models take real actions. Without tools, AI can only chat. With tools, AI can actually do things. We're building the definitive tools catalog and tool-calling platform that will unlock AI's true potential. Think Zapier for AI actions. Think Auth0 for AI. Think really big.
Why This Is The Opportunity of a Lifetime
- Traction: Real deployments with Fortune 100 Fortune customers.
- Founder-Market Fit: Our CEO was previously the VP of Products for Okta where he led all developer product, all new products, and overall product strategy. Prior to Okta he founded Stormpath (acquired by Okta), where he created the first Authentication API for developers. He's done this before - and this time the market is 10x bigger. Our CTO led the vector database team at Redis, shipped 100+ LLM applications, and is a contributor to LangChain and LlamaIndex. He knows this space better than anyone.
- Dream Team: We've assembled authentication, integrations, distributed systems, and AI experts from Okta, MongoDB, Redis, Microsoft, Meta, Confluent, ServiceNow, Atlassian, Splunk, Ngrok, Google, and Airbyt who've built and founded multiple successful developer platforms.
- Perfect Timing: Every enterprise is racing to put agents in production - almost none get there. The problem isn't better models, it's proving which agent can take which action, on behalf of which user, against which system. That's us.
- Massive Market : We're building critical infrastructure for the biggest technological shift of our generation. Every enterprise agent, whether custom-built on frameworks like LangChain or bought from vendors like Anthropic and Microsoft, needs governed access to the systems it acts in. That's the layer we're building.
- Backed By The Best: Our Series A round is led by SYN Ventures, with strategic investment from Cisco, Morgan Stanley, and Wipro. Our earlier investors have also backed Databricks, Clickhouse, MongoDB, Perplexity, Cohere, ScaleAI, Confluent, Elastic, and Firebase. They see what we see - this is going to be huge.
The Challenge
We need Forward Deployed Engineers who are deeply technical, incredibly articulate, and possess an insatiable curiosity for what’s possible. You aren't just giving demos; you are a systems thinker who can walk into a Fortune 500 customer and understand their entire technology landscape - identity, data, application, and governance layers - to design architectures that survive a rigorous security review. You’ll need to stay three steps ahead of the rapidly evolving Agentic AI ecosystem, mastering LLM orchestration, autonomous agent frameworks, and the complex world of tool-calling and action-oriented infrastructure. You won't just be a vendor; you’ll be a trusted consultant helping customers architect the transition from passive chat to active, automated intelligence.
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Listed on Arcadeai's Ashby job board; checked 23 h ago. First seen by us 25 h ago. Being listed doesn't mean the team is actively interviewing. We found this board in a public directory and haven't yet confirmed it against the company's own careers page.