{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"23ec81a10a638b34b08b0c2b","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/23ec81a10a638b34b08b0c2b","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/23ec81a10a638b34b08b0c2b","title":"Forward Deployed Engineer","description":"Lack of connectivity is the most fundamental problem in the physical economy.\nThe physical economy only works as a network of interconnected companies, but it still runs on systems that were never designed to talk to each other. Every time two companies need to exchange data, someone builds a custom integration by hand. Business analysts, integration engineers, QA. All manual. Every time. Google EDI if you haven't. It's wild.\nA lot of companies have tried to fix this. Nobody has. We think AI agents are the way to finally connect the physical economy.\nTemper is an agentic integration platform for the real economy. Specialized AI agents handle the full lifecycle: gathering requirements in plain English, generating integration code, testing it, deploying it, and keeping it alive in production. When something breaks, the agents fix it.\nWe have paying enterprise customers. Real integrations running in production right now. There's more demand than we can keep up with.\nSeed-funded, with over $8M raised. Still an early team, under 10 of us.\nThese aren't chatbots or thin wrappers on an LLM. The agents do real work with real consequences in production systems.\nSome of what you'd build:\nAgent orchestration across multiple specialized agents coordinating complex workflows\nPlatform engineering: basically a mini Vercel for integration runtime with durable execution\nSelf-healing systems that detect failures and recover autonomously in production\nA knowledge base of undocumented systems that gets smarter with every integration\nNobody has shipped this kind of platform at production scale yet, even in other verticals.\nGrew up in his family's trucking business. Built the freight product at Hive, Europe's leading eCom logistics startup, from 0 to $M. Hardware-native engineer who taught himself to code.\nRan 100+ person warehouse operations at Amazon, then consulted on system integrations at KPMG. Built Hive's largest revenue line from zero.\nNick (CTO) Built Lilith at 16, led an offensive security program for a nation-state, entrepreneur for 8 years. In eCom, he led the tech that scaled a company from 0 to $100M in 3 years.\n\nDaniel and Heinrich built Hive from pre-seed to 400+ people. They've been living this problem for years.\nYou'll own the full arc of getting Temper running in production at enterprise customers: scoping integrations, deploying them, and keeping them live. You're the person customers rely on when it matters.\nEvery customer engagement surfaces something: an edge case, a pattern, a gap. You'll build the fix yourself, directly in the product, and ship it. The feedback loop from production to roadmap to code runs through you.\nHelpful, but not required TypeScript React Bun Effect-TS PostgreSQL Kubernetes AWS\nYou're comfortable running multiple AI agents in parallel, and you pick up new things fast.\nYou've shipped real things end-to-end, multiple times. You owned them.\nYou're energized by customer problems, not just engineering ones.\nYou code with AI agents and lean into it, with enough taste to know what's worth shipping.\nYou hold strong technical opinions and change them when the evidence says so.\nYou move independently.\nYou want to do the best work of your career.\nYou want a true early-stage, in-person experience in San Francisco: fast-paced, high intensity.\nMeaningful equity\nA top-tier office in San Francisco\nEquipment for maximum productivity: M5 MacBook Pro & more\nFull health coverage\n1 Screen 20 min Quick chat, mutual fit.\n\n2 Deep dive 45 min Your career, what you've built, how you think.\n\n3 Technical 60 min Design a system with us. No leetcode.\n\n4 Paid work day A real task from our backlog, in person.\n\n5 Offer We move fast. Expect under two weeks from first call to offer.\n\nCome build it with us\nThink this is you? 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Every time two companies need to exchange data, someone builds a custom integration by hand. Business analysts, integration engineers, QA. All manual. Every time. Google EDI if you haven't. It's wild.\nA lot of companies have tried to fix this. Nobody has. We think AI agents are the way to finally connect the physical economy.\nTemper is an agentic integration platform for the real economy. Specialized AI agents handle the full lifecycle: gathering requirements in plain English, generating integration code, testing it, deploying it, and keeping it alive in production. When something breaks, the agents fix it.\nWe have paying enterprise customers. Real integrations running in production right now. There's more demand than we can keep up with.\nSeed-funded, with over $8M raised. Still an early team, under 10 of us.\nThese aren't chatbots or thin wrappers on an LLM. 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In eCom, he led the tech that scaled a company from 0 to $100M in 3 years.\n\nDaniel and Heinrich built Hive from pre-seed to 400+ people. They've been living this problem for years.\nYou'll own the full arc of getting Temper running in production at enterprise customers: scoping integrations, deploying them, and keeping them live. You're the person customers rely on when it matters.\nEvery customer engagement surfaces something: an edge case, a pattern, a gap. You'll build the fix yourself, directly in the product, and ship it. The feedback loop from production to roadmap to code runs through you.\nHelpful, but not required TypeScript React Bun Effect-TS PostgreSQL Kubernetes AWS\nYou're comfortable running multiple AI agents in parallel, and you pick up new things fast.\nYou've shipped real things end-to-end, multiple times. 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