Forward Deployed Engineer (AI Platforms & Browser Agents)
Compensation: $170,000 - $210,000 Base + Meaningful Early-Stage Equity
The Opportunity:
I am partnering directly with the CTO and founders of a fast-growing AI startup backed by Y Combinator, Felicis Ventures, and Khosla Ventures. They are building autonomous, computer-use visual AI agents designed to replace legacy, brittle RPA systems.
Why This Role Is Different Clean Architecture & Self-Healing Focus: You are not just hacking together one-off scripts. You will evaluate workflow node structures to ensure compatibility with platform self-healing mechanisms and Model Context Protocol (MCP) tooling, preventing long-term maintenance debt.
Pattern Matching for Product Engineering: You will work directly with the CTO, spotting execution patterns across enterprise client environments, identifying system edge cases, and directly influencing core platform architecture.
What You’ll Do End-to-End Account Ownership: Partner directly with client operations and IT teams to map messy, non-API workflows and drive account go-live, adoption, and long-term expansion.
Workflow Architecture & Agent Building: Translate customer walkthrough videos, SOPs, and system rules into structured, autonomous agent workflows using Playwright, TypeScript or Python, and AI coding agents.
Debug & Optimize: Inspect raw DOM trees, debug API payloads, analyze stack traces, and refine prompt/reasoning loops to maintain 100% operational uptime.
Product Pattern-Finding: Identify recurring failure modes across client platforms and feed structured patterns back to internal core engineering to refine the product's core architecture.
What We’re Looking For Software Engineering Foundation: B.S. in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a proven background in software engineering.
Architectural Rigor: Ability to look at generated code and workflow structures to ensure maintainability, cleanliness, and system self-healing compatibility.
Client Presence: High EQ and IQ with the communication skills to run technical discovery alongside enterprise executives while maintaining deep technical authority.