Founding Forward Deployed Engineer
LinuxRecruit
Overview
As a Founding FDE, you will own end-to-end AI and automation problems, integrating AI into real-world workflows from day one. You’ll work directly with the founders and CTO to ship AI-enabled features across integrations and unstructured data, learning fast in a founder-led environment. Your work will move from problem framing to production, delivering immediate value to customers. This unique role combines ownership, hands-on coding, and cross-functional collaboration in a rapidly growing startup.
Pay / Benefits- equity with ownership
- early-stage backing and credibility
- opportunity to work directly with founders/CTO
- ambitious, high-impact scope
- own problems end-to-end across AI, automation, integrations, unstructured data
- build, deploy and observe AI-driven solutions in production
- ship features that are used by real customers quickly
- work closely with founders and the technical team to iterate from problem to product
- drive reliability and practical applicability of AI in real-world workflows
- navigate ambiguity and balance long days with meaningful ownership
- polyglot engineering background with strong full-stack ability
- experience building and shipping AI systems into production
- genuine love for product and engineering
- ownership
- ambition
- ability to work with ambiguity
- full-stack development
- production-grade AI systems
- system integrations
Reference: WJ-747_30172414