Forward Deployed Engineer
San Francisco$180k - $230kFull-timePosted 7mo ago
About the role
Customer Engineer role at Tavus combining product support, forward-deployed product & engineering, and innovation to build production-ready solutions with customers in AI/video space.
Responsibilities
- Work on hardest technical challenges customers face and own unblocking them by debugging, shipping fixes, or building missing features.
- Own the product experience, architecture, application code, Tavus integration, and deployment with customers from idea to production.
- Ensure solutions are reliable, scalable, and production-ready and stay involved post-launch to support ongoing success.
- Collaborate with founders, product teams, and engineers to shape experiences, push back on approaches, and build customer-facing products.
- Prototype new experiences, explore integration with emerging technologies, and demonstrate future possibilities to customers.
Qualifications
- Experience across product, engineering, and customer-facing roles; comfortable writing production code and owning outcomes.
- Strong full-stack capabilities; able to build working products end-to-end.
- Experience with AI-native companies or forward-deployed/solutions engineering roles preferred.
- Ability to communicate with customers, run technical discovery, challenge assumptions, and define scope.
Skills
Required:Full-stack software developmentCustomer-facing communicationSystem design / architecture
Nice to have:AI/LLMs familiarity
Last updated Oct 14, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Tavus
Meet the PALs
Tavus introduces PALs: AI humans that remember, empathize, and grow with you. They move fluidly between chat, voice, and video, making AI finally feel human.
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