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Founding Forward Deployed Engineer

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Hybrid (San Francisco, CA)$100k - $160kFull-timePosted 4d ago

About the role

Cloud infrastructure for MCP servers and Claude / ChatGPT plugins. Founding role to drive enterprise pilots, partnerships, and customer adoption for Manufact.

Responsibilities

  • Technical discovery and pilots. Understand the use case, define success criteria, scope the solution and build a working proof of concept.

Qualifications

  • Shipped software used by real customers and can explain what happened after launch.

Skills

Required:TypeScript
Nice to have:Python

Benefits

  • Equity
  • Premium medical and dependent coverage
  • Unlimited PTO
  • 401(k) with company match
  • Relocation assistance
Last updated Oct 22, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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About Manufact (formerly mcp-use)

Open source SDK & cloud infrastructure for MCP Servers & ChatGPT Apps

Manufact provides open-source dev tools and infrastructure for MCP to help dev teams quickly build and deploy MCP Servers for AI agents & MCP Apps for ChatGPT and Claude. We developed the mcp-use SDK, which has over 5M downloads and 9,000 GitHub stars, and is used by 20% of the US 500. Create MCP servers/apps in minutes, connect your GitHub repo, and make them immediately available to AI agents and ChatGPT.

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