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Cargo

Forward Deployed Engineer

Location: San Francisco · Category: Engineering & Development · Seniority: Mid-Level · Posted: September 10, 2026 · Verified: Oct 6, 2026

Role Overview & Description

This role owns the path from POC scope through hands-on delivery, evaluation, production launch, and early expansion for strategic customers. Responsibilities include embedding with customer operations teams, translating ambiguous needs into architecture and milestones, building integrations across helpdesks/CRMs/ERPs, and configuring AI workflows with retrieval, tools, and guardrails. Requires production software-engineering ability in Python or TypeScript, customer-facing technical delivery experience, and practical knowledge of LLM systems.
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