Forward Deployed Engineer

About the role

ABOUT THE ROLE

We’re looking for a top-tier Forward Deployed Engineer to join Linkup and work hand-in-hand with our founders, customers, and partners. You'll be part of the founding FDE team at Linkup

Your mission: help leading AI companies, developers, and enterprises integrate Linkup’s AI-ready search APIs into their products - and shape how the next generation of AI agents connects to the web.

This is a highly cross-functional role. You’ll operate at the intersection of engineering, GTM, and customer success, turning technical integrations into insights that drive our product roadmap, marketing narratives, and outbound strategy.

You’ll be the connective bridge between what customers build with Linkup and how we tell that story to the world.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

- Work directly with customers and partners to design, prototype, and deploy integrations of Linkup’s APIs into real-world agentic systems.

- Participate in pre-sales efforts - technical discovery, proof-of-concept design, demo environments.

- Collaborate cross-functionally with backend, ML, and product teams to ensure performance and reliability at scale.

- Partner with the GTM Engineer and DevRel team to turn customer learnings into automation, tutorials, and playbooks.

- Identify and implement technical integrations with our other partners in the value chain (workflow orchestration, AI frameworks, etc.)

- Translate complex technical concepts into clear explanations for both developers and business audiences.

WHY THIS ROLE MATTERS

Every integration you build helps define how AI systems connect to live, trusted information.

You’ll operate on the frontier between customers and product - bringing the voice of the field into everything we build and say.

Your work will inform:

- The stories we tell in marketing.

- The use cases we automate in our GTM systems.

- The features we prioritize in our roadmap.

If you love blending engineering with impact - building things users actually depend on: this role is for you.

YOU’RE A GREAT FIT IF YOU

- 2+ years in technical support engineering, software engineering, or solutions engineering, with direct application development experience.

- Strong API integration skills - able to design and debug REST/JSON payloads, manage auth flows, and optimize latency.

- Understand web infrastructure, distributed systems, or retrieval pipelines.

- Are comfortable debugging integrations and solving ambiguous technical challenges in customer environments.

- Communicate clearly and empathetically with both technical and business audiences.

- Are curious about AI infrastructure, retrieval, and the emerging agentic ecosystem.

- Thrive in a fast-paced, high-ownership startup environment.