{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"86f98d698ff9e697f98ff1d2","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/86f98d698ff9e697f98ff1d2","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/86f98d698ff9e697f98ff1d2","title":"Founding Forward Deployed Engineer","description":"About the Role We’re looking for a top-tier Forward Deployed Engineer to join Linkup and work hand-in-hand with our founders, customers, and partners. This is our first hire at this role.\nYour mission: help leading AI companies, developers, and enterprises integrate Linkup’s AI-ready search APIs into their products — and shape how the next generation of AI agents connects to the web.\nThis is a highly cross-functional role. You’ll operate at the intersection of engineering, GTM, and customer success , turning technical integrations into insights that drive our product roadmap, marketing narratives, and outbound strategy.\nYou’ll be the connective bridge between what customers build with Linkup and how we tell that story to the world.\nWhat You’ll Do Work directly with customers and partners to design, prototype, and deploy integrations of Linkup’s APIs into real-world agentic systems.\n\nParticipate in pre-sales efforts — technical discovery, proof-of-concept design, demo environments.\n\nCollaborate cross-functionally with backend, ML, and product teams to ensure performance and reliability at scale.\n\nPartner with the GTM Engineer and DevRel team to turn customer learnings into automation, tutorials, and playbooks.\n\nIdentify and implement technical integrations with our other partners ****in the value chain (workflow orchestration, AI frameworks, etc.)\n\nTranslate complex technical concepts into clear explanations for both developers and business audiences.\n\nWhy This Role Matters Every integration you build helps define how AI systems connect to live, trusted information .\nYou’ll operate on the frontier between customers and product — bringing the voice of the field into everything we build and say.\nYour work will inform:\nThe stories we tell in marketing.\n\nThe use cases we automate in our GTM systems.\n\nThe features we prioritize in our roadmap.\n\nIf you love blending engineering with impact — building things users actually depend on — this role is for you.\nYou’re a Great Fit If You 4+ years in technical support engineering , software engineering , or solutions engineering , with direct application development experience.\n\nStrong API integration skills — able to design and debug REST/JSON payloads, manage auth flows, and optimize latency.\n\nUnderstand web infrastructure, distributed systems, or retrieval pipelines.\n\nAre comfortable debugging integrations and solving ambiguous technical challenges in customer environments.\n\nCommunicate clearly and empathetically with both technical and business audiences.\n\nAre curious about AI infrastructure, retrieval, and the emerging agentic ecosystem.\n\nThrive in a fast-paced, high-ownership startup environment.\n\nExample Projects Help a partner integrate Linkup’s /search endpoint into their multi-agent workflow.\n\nBuild a proof-of-concept combining a customer’s private data with Linkup’s real-time web results.\n\nCollaborate with the backend team to improve SDK telemetry and enterprise deployment reliability.\n\nWork with the GTM team to turn successful integrations into published use cases and reference architectures.\n\nIdentify recurring customer needs that can become productized templates or automation.\n\nAbout Linkup Our Vision We believe in a future of AI agents and the agentic web . These digital entities can create more value for humanity than we ever could alone, but they depend on the internet to operate, collaborate, take action, and gather information.\nAI agents need web search . To perform well, they require information that is current, reliable, and context‑specific—not the diffuse, steadily aging knowledge frozen at their last training cut‑off.\nModern web search is built for humans, not AIs . Instead of trusted facts, it serves links, ads, and click‑bait. People want visually engaging pages; AI systems need structured truth. An AI can absorb oceans of data, while human attention barely skims the surface. Humans think visually and intuitively; AI reasons in latent space.\nWeb 2.0 is sunsetting . The deck is being reshuffled, and the Bing‑Google search oligopoly is crumbling. Indexing ever more pages is no longer the goal; semantically organizing facts for AI systems is. In the coming agentic web, Google’s ad‑driven model has no natural home.\nSearch for AI must be rebuilt from the ground up . We are reconstructing the web as a rigorously structured knowledge layer, mapping every concept, entity, and claim into a coherent semantic graph. This foundation delivers verified facts and rich context to AI instantly, unlocking faster reasoning, higher accuracy, and radically more useful answers for everyone.\nHumans search Google; AI searches Linkup.\nOur Mission Reality never stands still, and neither should intelligence. Linkup reconnects language models to a living stream of verified facts, ensuring AIs remain as current and insightful as the world they serve.\nOur mission is to deliver the world’s freshest, most trusted knowledge to AIs.\nOur Culture Our culture is built on the following values:\nMission . We believe we play a critical role in building the agentic web. We are 100% committed to our mission of bringing the reality of the world to AI agents.\n\nSpeed . We build fast, we build to last. We get things done, well.\n\nOwnership . We empower every team member to take ownership of their projects, ensuring they see them through to successful completion.\n\nTeamwork . Our strength lies in our unity. We rely on one another and embrace our diversity as a core asset.\n\nHumility . We maintain low egos, showing respect for others and continuously learning from their insights and experiences.\n\nWe expect all team member to take an active role in shaping our company culture.\nOur Team We are small technical team, working shoulder to shoulder to build the web of agents.\nA bit more about our 3 co-founders:\nPhilippe Mizrahi - Led the development of Lyft’s Autonomous Vehicles marketplace. Previously launched Amundsen, an open source search engine.\n\nDenis Charrier - Founding Engineer at Niland, an audio search company (acquired by Spotify), then Staff Engineer at Spotify. 15y of software development experience.\n\nBoris Toledano - Led robotics at Carrefour, after 3y at McKinsey & Co working on public affairs and digital transformation.\n\n#J-18808-Ljbffr","company":"LinkUp","rawCompany":"linkup","city":"Millbrae","state":"CA","isRemote":false,"isActive":false,"createdAt":"2026-06-20T05:07:02.490Z","occupations":[{"code":"15-1252.00","title":"Software Developers","slug":"software-developers"},{"code":"15-1299.08","title":"Computer Systems Engineers/Architects","slug":"computer-systems-engineers-architects"},{"code":"15-1221.00","title":"Computer and Information Research Scientists","slug":"computer-and-information-research-scientists"}],"industries":[{"code":"513210","title":"Software Publishers","slug":"software-publishers"},{"code":"541511","title":"Custom Computer Programming Services","slug":"custom-computer-programming-services"},{"code":"541512","title":"Computer Systems Design Services","slug":"computer-systems-design-services"}],"jobPosting":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"JobPosting","title":"Founding Forward Deployed Engineer","description":"About the Role We’re looking for a top-tier Forward Deployed Engineer to join Linkup and work hand-in-hand with our founders, customers, and partners. This is our first hire at this role.\nYour mission: help leading AI companies, developers, and enterprises integrate Linkup’s AI-ready search APIs into their products — and shape how the next generation of AI agents connects to the web.\nThis is a highly cross-functional role. You’ll operate at the intersection of engineering, GTM, and customer success , turning technical integrations into insights that drive our product roadmap, marketing narratives, and outbound strategy.\nYou’ll be the connective bridge between what customers build with Linkup and how we tell that story to the world.\nWhat You’ll Do Work directly with customers and partners to design, prototype, and deploy integrations of Linkup’s APIs into real-world agentic systems.\n\nParticipate in pre-sales efforts — technical discovery, proof-of-concept design, demo environments.\n\nCollaborate cross-functionally with backend, ML, and product teams to ensure performance and reliability at scale.\n\nPartner with the GTM Engineer and DevRel team to turn customer learnings into automation, tutorials, and playbooks.\n\nIdentify and implement technical integrations with our other partners ****in the value chain (workflow orchestration, AI frameworks, etc.)\n\nTranslate complex technical concepts into clear explanations for both developers and business audiences.\n\nWhy This Role Matters Every integration you build helps define how AI systems connect to live, trusted information .\nYou’ll operate on the frontier between customers and product — bringing the voice of the field into everything we build and say.\nYour work will inform:\nThe stories we tell in marketing.\n\nThe use cases we automate in our GTM systems.\n\nThe features we prioritize in our roadmap.\n\nIf you love blending engineering with impact — building things users actually depend on — this role is for you.\nYou’re a Great Fit If You 4+ years in technical support engineering , software engineering , or solutions engineering , with direct application development experience.\n\nStrong API integration skills — able to design and debug REST/JSON payloads, manage auth flows, and optimize latency.\n\nUnderstand web infrastructure, distributed systems, or retrieval pipelines.\n\nAre comfortable debugging integrations and solving ambiguous technical challenges in customer environments.\n\nCommunicate clearly and empathetically with both technical and business audiences.\n\nAre curious about AI infrastructure, retrieval, and the emerging agentic ecosystem.\n\nThrive in a fast-paced, high-ownership startup environment.\n\nExample Projects Help a partner integrate Linkup’s /search endpoint into their multi-agent workflow.\n\nBuild a proof-of-concept combining a customer’s private data with Linkup’s real-time web results.\n\nCollaborate with the backend team to improve SDK telemetry and enterprise deployment reliability.\n\nWork with the GTM team to turn successful integrations into published use cases and reference architectures.\n\nIdentify recurring customer needs that can become productized templates or automation.\n\nAbout Linkup Our Vision We believe in a future of AI agents and the agentic web . These digital entities can create more value for humanity than we ever could alone, but they depend on the internet to operate, collaborate, take action, and gather information.\nAI agents need web search . To perform well, they require information that is current, reliable, and context‑specific—not the diffuse, steadily aging knowledge frozen at their last training cut‑off.\nModern web search is built for humans, not AIs . Instead of trusted facts, it serves links, ads, and click‑bait. People want visually engaging pages; AI systems need structured truth. An AI can absorb oceans of data, while human attention barely skims the surface. Humans think visually and intuitively; AI reasons in latent space.\nWeb 2.0 is sunsetting . The deck is being reshuffled, and the Bing‑Google search oligopoly is crumbling. Indexing ever more pages is no longer the goal; semantically organizing facts for AI systems is. In the coming agentic web, Google’s ad‑driven model has no natural home.\nSearch for AI must be rebuilt from the ground up . We are reconstructing the web as a rigorously structured knowledge layer, mapping every concept, entity, and claim into a coherent semantic graph. This foundation delivers verified facts and rich context to AI instantly, unlocking faster reasoning, higher accuracy, and radically more useful answers for everyone.\nHumans search Google; AI searches Linkup.\nOur Mission Reality never stands still, and neither should intelligence. Linkup reconnects language models to a living stream of verified facts, ensuring AIs remain as current and insightful as the world they serve.\nOur mission is to deliver the world’s freshest, most trusted knowledge to AIs.\nOur Culture Our culture is built on the following values:\nMission . We believe we play a critical role in building the agentic web. We are 100% committed to our mission of bringing the reality of the world to AI agents.\n\nSpeed . We build fast, we build to last. We get things done, well.\n\nOwnership . We empower every team member to take ownership of their projects, ensuring they see them through to successful completion.\n\nTeamwork . Our strength lies in our unity. We rely on one another and embrace our diversity as a core asset.\n\nHumility . We maintain low egos, showing respect for others and continuously learning from their insights and experiences.\n\nWe expect all team member to take an active role in shaping our company culture.\nOur Team We are small technical team, working shoulder to shoulder to build the web of agents.\nA bit more about our 3 co-founders:\nPhilippe Mizrahi - Led the development of Lyft’s Autonomous Vehicles marketplace. 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