Founding Forward Deployed Engineer
Hybrid (San Francisco, CA)$110k - $170k + equityFull-timePosted 6mo ago
About the role
Lumari is building the world's first AI-powered procurement OS for direct materials in supply chain. The Founding Forward Deployed Engineer will work alongside the founders on key customer engagements, shape product direction, and own full-stack features and AI agent workflows from idea to production.
Responsibilities
- Work alongside the founders on our biggest customer engagements, shaping how we build for and with them
- Understand customers’ workflows and success criteria and turn their needs into technical implementations
- Ship full-stack features end-to-end, from backend services and data models to frontend interfaces
- Iterate quickly based on customer feedback, and turn ambiguous problems into shipped product
- Own features from idea to production: build, launch, monitor, and improve
- Build AI agents from the ground up: designing orchestration logic, tool calling, prompting, and decision-making flows that work reliably in production environments
- Design clean, intuitive UI/UX for complex workflows
- Work closely with co-founders to set engineering and product direction
Qualifications
- Strong full-stack experience shipping production software with React, TypeScript, Python, FastAPI, Next.js
- Experience building with AI and LLMs: tool calling, prompting, structured outputs, guardrails, and agent workflow design
- Proactive ownership mindset: you fix problems as you see them and can independently turn requirements into production-ready code
- Sharp communication skills and experience working closely with customers
- Design sense and attention to detail: you care about how interfaces look and feel, not just how they work
- Power user of AI coding tools and ability to use them to move faster without sacrificing quality
Skills
Required:Full-stack developmentReactTypeScriptPythonFastAPINext.jsAI / LLMsCustomer collaboration
Last updated Aug 26, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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Lumari enables supply chain teams to automate their manual operational work using custom-trained AI teammates that deeply understand their company context.
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