Forward Deployed Engineer
Hybrid (San Francisco, CA)$140k - $200kFull-timePosted 7mo ago
About the role
Forward Deployed Engineer who bridges customers and Tavus engineering by debugging integrations, building SDKs and prototypes, collecting feedback, and shaping product direction to deliver a smooth, magical experience for developers and creators using Tavus.
Responsibilities
- Work directly with customers to debug, build POCs, and design solutions.
- Build prototypes, SDKs, sample apps, and tools that improve developer experience.
- Collect feedback, identify patterns, and translate them into product/engineering improvements.
- Partner on early feature adoption: test pre-release features with customers, gather feedback, suggest iterations.
- Help define how we develop a world class customer experience
Qualifications
- Extremely solid software engineering fundamentals.
- Deep curiosity about problems at every level of the stack, from ML to infrastructure to networking.
- Desire to work closely with end users to understand their problems.
- Good PM mindset to see patterns in customer requests and inform product direction.
- Strong bias toward action and a founder mindset to solve problems
Skills
Required:Software engineering fundamentalsFull-stack developmentCustomer-facing collaboration
Benefits
- flexible work schedule
- unlimited PTO
- competitive healthcare
- gear stipends
- plenty of fun
Last updated Sep 2, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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