Job Description, Responsibilities & Requirements
About the Position
Forward Deployed Engineer
$100K - $200K • San Francisco, CA, US
Responsibilities
- On-site deployments with customers.
- Fine-tune models, RL on top of customer data, run and maintain evals, and more.
- Deploy and configure AI Agents end-to-end, from fine-tuning to on-site deployment with customers.
Requirements
- Experience with bleeding-edge, best-in-class full-stack tools like TypeScript, Next.js, & Postgres.
- Knowledge of and passion for AI: strong fundamentals of RL, fine-tuning, agentic workflows, building extensive RAG pipelines, and more. We like to work with people who already have shipped AI applications end to end.
- Hunger to learn: You can quickly learn how to work with services and tools even without previous experience. This is particularly true today and will remain true as we grow. We have to invent faster than Moore's law.
- Impatient with execution, but patient with results (aka you’re the type of person who makes shit happen).
Nice to Have
- Startup experience
- Built AI apps
- Worked with more than just GPT
- Personal interest in AI
We Offer
- Competitive salary range of $100K - $200K per year.
- Opportunity to work on impactful projects deploying AI agents in critical industries.
- Join a strong engineering, entrepreneurial, and builder culture.
- Be part of an early team shaping the future of a category-defining company.
About the Company
Layerup
Layerup builds AI Agents for critical industries starting with financial services and insurance. We're backed by Y Combinator, Pioneer Fund, Founders Inc, and others. We're a team of serial entrepreneurs, engineers, and technologists who like to stay at the cutting edge of hardware and software alike. We've built everything ranging from AI apps to robots to drones to getting invited by NASA for a habitable space settlement research project.
Founded: 2021
Batch: S22
Team Size: 11
Status: Active
Location: San Francisco
Join us in revolutionizing industries with cutting-edge AI!