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Forward Deployed AI Engineer

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San Francisco$115k - $200k + equityFull-timePosted 11mo ago

About the role

Role focused on building AI agents for risk investigations, fraud review, and identity reviews. In-person, SF-based position with a small, founder-led team; opportunities to work directly with founders and enterprise customers.

Responsibilities

  • Own the end-to-end integration strategy of Variance to our enterprise customers
  • Understand and partner with customers to understand their needs and set their strategy with Variance
  • Build GenAI-powered agentic workflows and automation for billion-scale events
  • Serve as the primary, ongoing technical point of contact for our users

Qualifications

  • Outstanding communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work effectively in a team-oriented environment
  • Past experience working with LLM solutions, and a deep understanding of GenAI
  • Strong Coder with proficiency in Python, Java, Typescript, or similar
  • Self-directed and comfortable working with ambiguity

Skills

Required:PythonTypeScriptGenAI / LLMs
Nice to have:Java

Benefits

  • Health care: we offer platinum-level medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • Unlimited PTO, sick leave, and parental leave
  • Up to $100 in reimbursement for personal health & wellness expenses each month
  • Free lunch and dinner
  • 401(k) plan
Last updated Sep 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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About Variance

World-Class Tooling for Trust & Safety teams

Build safer platforms with Intrinsic. Get access to the best safety technologies from one unified API. Enable your Trust & Safety team to tell cohesive stories from policy to product, to enforcement. Michael and Karine first met two years ago at Apple’s Fraud Engineering, Algorithmic Risk team, which evolved to become Apple’s Trust & Safety function. We are both engineers and helped solve online abuse problems, including spam, botting, account security, and developer fraud for Apple’s customer base of over a billion users.

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