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Founding Forward Deployed Engineer - US

H Company

New York, NYFull-timePosted 1 day agoStill listed 1 day ago

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Location
New York, NY
Schedule
Full-time
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Job overview

H Company is seeking a Founding Forward Deployed Engineer to help customers implement AI agents and automate impactful tasks. The role integrates customer systems, builds production-grade services, and iterates on solutions using field feedback. The engineer collaborates with product, research, and engineering teams to shape the roadmap. The role can be based in the San Francisco Bay Area, Austin, or New York, with travel for customer engagements.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Python (Programming Language)Artificial IntelligenceSoftware EngineeringConsumer EngagementInterpersonal CommunicationsProblem SolvingAPI ManagementUser Experience Design (UX)TypeScriptAI/ML SystemsLLM IntegrationAgentic WorkflowsFastAPINext.jsReactUI/UX TradeoffsProduction SystemsAPI IntegrationDatabase IntegrationExternal Systems IntegrationCommunicationAutonomyCuriosityCustomer-Facing WorkRapid IterationOwnership

Qualifications

3+ Years AI and Software Engineering Experience

Full job description

FOUNDING FORWARD DEPLOYED ENGINEER

What we're looking for:

  • Individuals with impressive achievements and great technical skills, highly proficient in Python .
  • Around 3 years of experience in AI with the ability to act autonomously and demonstrate real curiosity for AI.
  • Customer-facing experience and comfortable working alongside a customer.
  • Excellent communication skills.

About H: H Company is a next-generation AI research and product company pioneering the future of autonomous, agentic AI. Founded to build intelligence that acts, H Company is creating the foundational infrastructure for autonomous AI systems that drive real-world outcomes across industries.

About the Team: The Forward Deployed Team is committed to ensuring the successful implementation of our Agents to help our customer automate and optimize tasks, and allow them to focus on what really matters. The team is also responsible to shape the future vision of our products by distilling learnings from the field into the H platform.

That platform empowers a wide range of professionals and businesses to safely, easily and autonomously deploy agents at scale for a broad range of tasks: from ensuring websites behave as expected to automating repeated tasks.

Key Responsibilities: Understand and identify customer’s most important and impactful multi-step task to automate Seamlessly integrate with customer systems, including but not limited to databases, third-party APIs, and internal tools, etc. Rapidly iterate in the field with tight feedback loops to continuously improve product fit and drive end-to-end solution delivery Architect, build, and maintain production-grade services that scale with usage and complexity Collaborate closely with product, research, and engineering teams to shape the roadmap and align on priorities based on findings in the field

Requirements: 3+ years of professional AI + software engineering experience, ideally in fast-paced environments (e.g., startups, consulting, or product teams), or otherwise proven technical acumen through projects and past experiences Experience working with AI/ML systems, especially integrating LLMs or other agentic workflows into real products Heavy fluency in Python and familiarity with Typescript Familiarity with backend (FastAPI, Next.js…) and frontend (React…) frameworks and a good sense of UI/UX tradeoffs Experience building and deploying production systems: APIs, services, infrastructure, and/or data pipelines Proficiency in integrating third-party APIs, databases, and external systems in a secure and reliable way Strong problem-solving skills and ability to thrive in ambiguous, customer-facing environments Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal Bias for action: able to ship quickly, iterate fast, and own the full lifecycle of solutions Willingness to travel for on-site deployments or customer engagements

Location: H's teams are distributed throughout Paris, France, London, UK, and the US. This role can be based either in SF/Bay area-CA, Austin-TX, or NY.

What we offer: Be part of the founding journey of one of the most exciting AI startups shaping the future of AI and agentic systems. Collaborate with a fun, dynamic and multicultural team, working alongside world-class AI engineers, researchers, and builders in a high-trust, high-impact environment. Enjoy a competitive compensation package, including equity.

How this job compares

Set against the 2,638 open Forward Deployed Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 29, 2026.

Pay
  • This postingNot listed
  • New York median$151–250K/yr224 salary ranges
  • US median$31–91/hr62 hourly ranges
Openings
Olive Jobs lists 299 open Forward Deployed Engineer jobs in New York and 2,638 across the US. 6% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in New York
Experience
This posting asks for at least 3 years of experience; Forward Deployed Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years at the median (2,310 postings).
Education
680 of the 2,638 open Forward Deployed Engineer jobs (26%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 29, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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