Forward Deployed Engineer

Infer· San Francisco, CA, US

Posted October 31, 2026

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Experience
2+ years
Pay
$110K – $180K per year
Education
Not specified
Location
San Francisco, CA, US
Work mode
On-site
Job type
Full-time

About this role

Infer builds AI agents, including voice agents, that handle lead qualification, calls and renewals for insurance agencies. As the first US forward deployed engineer, you own customer deployments from scope to go-live.

What you will do

  • Own customer deployments from scope to go-live
  • Build integrations into agencies' existing systems
  • Get AI agents handling real calls
  • Diagnose and fix customer issues
  • Find and scope expansion use cases inside accounts
  • Build reusable connectors, eval harnesses and runbooks

What the employer expects

  • 2+ years shipping production code, fluent in Python
  • Shipped at least one AI app to real users
  • Experience designing evals
  • Comfort with messy systems and poor documentation
  • Customer-facing communication
  • Willingness to travel to customer sites

Benefits

  • Equity of 0.20% - 0.50%
  • Health, dental and vision insurance
  • Travel covered for on-site customer work

Skills

  • Python
  • LLMs
  • Prompt engineering
  • Evals
  • AI agents
  • Telephony
  • Twilio
  • Whisper

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