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LAYIQ - Forward Deployed Engineer, Enterprise AI Automation (SF/NYC) at Lavendo

Hands-on software engineering experience, strong fundamentals, and a track record of shipping production applications.
The ability to independently build and ship a full-stack application.
Experience taking an unclear problem through architecture, implementation, and delivery.
Strong communication skills and genuine interest in working directly with customers.
Willingness to own implementation, operational issues, and customer relationships alongside the code.
Willingness to work approximately 60 hours per week across 6 days, full-time on-site in San Francisco or New York City, with relocation if needed.
Our client typically targets engineers with 2–8 years of experience and also considers exceptional early-career builders and experienced former founders. Relevant backgrounds include hands-on enterprise delivery, founding engineering, and technical consulting with substantial software development ownership. Startup experience and engineering work spanning product, growth, or other customer-facing functions are particularly valuable.
Key Success Drivers
Ownership: You spot what needs doing, make decisions, and follow through until the deployment works.
Customer judgment: You ask good questions, understand the operating context, and challenge assumptions constructively.
Technical judgment: You build reliable systems and choose solutions that fit the actual problem.
Communication: You earn trust and keep people aligned when requirements or priorities change.
Adaptability: You can move between coding, discovery, troubleshooting, and customer conversations.
Commitment: You understand the disclosed workload and genuinely want the pace and responsibility that come with it.
Why Join?
Compensation: 160,000–225,000 annual base salary, plus equity.
Scope: Own architecture, implementation, customer relationships, and deployment outcomes from start to finish.
Production impact: Build systems that automate important enterprise processes and reduce substantial manual work.
Product influence: Use what you learn in the field to improve the platform and establish how future deployments are delivered.
Team: Work alongside experienced engineers, enterprise operators, and former founders.
Benefits: Medical, dental, and vision coverage; health care and dependent care FSAs; long-term disability and life insurance. Medical and dental plans include 100% covered preventive care.
Visa support: Transfers and sponsorship may be available, subject to the candidate’s circumstances and confirmation during hiring.
Interviewing Process
HR Screening.
Initial conversation with Team Lead: Background, motivation, and mutual fit.
Technical interview. Practical programming in CoderPad; the candidate writes real code.
Case study. Discover the customer’s problem, propose a technical solution and architecture, and convince the customer to move forward. Tests communication and cross-functional thinking.
In-person work trial - one day: Work alongside the team on an actual deployment, use the product, build a real automation, and present the result.

Forward Deployed Engineer, Enterprise AI Automation (SF/NYC)

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