Forward Deployed Engineer
Hybrid (Palo Alto, CA)$150k - $200k + equityFull-timePosted 4mo ago
About the role
AI for R&D of consumer brands; role focuses on embedding with customers, solving problems with software/ML/AI, and delivering custom implementations to drive product insights and user outcomes.
Responsibilities
- Embed deeply with customers, with an eye for both problem solving and productizing common issues.
- Identify and automate product insights to drive our company’s direction.
- Solve customer problems with our software, machine learning, and AI toolkit, and leverage our AI-assisted tooling and workflows to build custom software and agents on top of this core code where it falls short.
- Within 15 days: understand one key problem facing a user and propose a fix; Within 30 days: deliver a custom implementation layer that solves a specific user problem the core tooling does not; Within 60 days: embed on-site with a customer for a week to watch, identify, and solve user problems we can’t see from our office.
Qualifications
- Experience in one or more of: forward deployed engineering, product, ML / AI, and food science / chemical engineering; as well as comfort having a semi-technical conversation about those fields in which you don’t have experience.
- A knack for identifying and quantifying measurable outcomes.
- An uncanny ability to identify root causes vs surface level problems
- Excellent communication and candor. You’ll be directly communicating with customers, users, engineers, domain experts, etc.
- Proven high-ownership mindset: ability to work independently and be self-motivated, e.g. former founders or those that took extreme ownership in previous roles.
Skills
Required:Problem-solving and root-cause analysisCustomer embedding and collaborationSoftware, ML, and AI toolkit usage
Last updated Aug 26, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Turing Labs Inc.
AI for R&D of consumer brands like P&G to develop better products
Developing a consumer product like Dove is complex, time-consuming, and expensive; companies like Unilever analyzes millions of data points to develop a blockbuster consumer product. Turing makes this process 10x more efficient. Turing's AI harnesses the data from several sources and helps to make a better decision about product development 10x faster.
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