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Getting from a promising use case to production requires more than configuration: someone has to understand the process, map the systems, build the integrations, prove quality, manage launch risk, and turn what was learned into a better product.\n\nAs a Forward Deployed Engineer, you will own that path for strategic customers—from an agreed POC scope through hands-on delivery, evaluation, production launch, and early expansion.\n\nWhat you’ll do\n\nEmbed with customer operations and technical teams to understand the real workflow, not only the stated requirements.\n\nTranslate ambiguous needs into architecture, milestones, success metrics, risks, and launch criteria.\n\nBuild and debug integrations across helpdesks, CRMs, ERPs, APIs, identity systems, data stores, and customer infrastructure.\n\nConfigure and extend AI workflows, retrieval, tools, guardrails, and human escalation.\n\nExecute agreed evaluations and operational readiness plans covering quality, observability, rollback, security, and sign-off. Coordinate UAT, shadow or copilot operation, and a controlled production ramp.\n\nCommunicate clearly with frontline operators, engineering teams, executives, and internal stakeholders.\n\nIdentify repeated customer needs and turn them into reusable code, templates, documentation, and product proposals.\n\nWhat we look for\n\nProduction software-engineering ability in Python, TypeScript, or a comparable language.\n\nExperience with APIs, webhooks, authentication, data mapping, retries, logging, and operational debugging.\n\nCustomer-facing technical delivery experience—or strong evidence you can build trust while staying hands-on.\n\nPractical knowledge of LLM systems, retrieval, tool use, evaluation, and failure modes.\n\nAbility to push back when scope is unsafe, make trade-offs explicit, and still keep the deployment moving.\n\nWillingness to travel when being in the room materially improves the outcome.\n\nWhat success looks like\n\nCustomers reach production with measurable outcomes and trust the system because the launch was rigorous. Each deployment makes the platform easier to deploy the next time.\n\nHow you’ll work with the team\n\nYou own execution of scoped POCs, customer integrations, evaluation, deployment, UAT, and controlled production rollout. Solutions Engineering leads pre-sale discovery and POC design. Agree scope, access owners, scoring criteria, dependencies, and the commercial path before delivery begins. Hand operational scope, baselines, known issues, and customer commitments to Customer Success after launch.\n\nAbout Sainapse\n\nSainapse builds agent-first software for customer operations, helping teams resolve work across the systems they already use. Our production work includes customer-support automation and document and order workflows, with configurable levels of autonomy and human review.\n\nWe are also building account-intelligence capabilities that connect customer signals across systems. You will help turn hands-on enterprise delivery into more repeatable software, stronger evaluation, and easier deployment.\n\nWe are a small team with broad individual ownership. We value first-principles thinking, direct communication, thoughtful use of AI tools, and evidence of customer impact. 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Visa sponsorship is not available.\n\nLocation: San Francisco, in person; travel to customer sites as needed\nType: Full time\n\nThe role\n\nSainapse runs inside high-stakes customer workflows. Getting from a promising use case to production requires more than configuration: someone has to understand the process, map the systems, build the integrations, prove quality, manage launch risk, and turn what was learned into a better product.\n\nAs a Forward Deployed Engineer, you will own that path for strategic customers—from an agreed POC scope through hands-on delivery, evaluation, production launch, and early expansion.\n\nWhat you’ll do\n\nEmbed with customer operations and technical teams to understand the real workflow, not only the stated requirements.\n\nTranslate ambiguous needs into architecture, milestones, success metrics, risks, and launch criteria.\n\nBuild and debug integrations across helpdesks, CRMs, ERPs, APIs, identity systems, data stores, and customer infrastructure.\n\nConfigure and extend AI workflows, retrieval, tools, guardrails, and human escalation.\n\nExecute agreed evaluations and operational readiness plans covering quality, observability, rollback, security, and sign-off. Coordinate UAT, shadow or copilot operation, and a controlled production ramp.\n\nCommunicate clearly with frontline operators, engineering teams, executives, and internal stakeholders.\n\nIdentify repeated customer needs and turn them into reusable code, templates, documentation, and product proposals.\n\nWhat we look for\n\nProduction software-engineering ability in Python, TypeScript, or a comparable language.\n\nExperience with APIs, webhooks, authentication, data mapping, retries, logging, and operational debugging.\n\nCustomer-facing technical delivery experience—or strong evidence you can build trust while staying hands-on.\n\nPractical knowledge of LLM systems, retrieval, tool use, evaluation, and failure modes.\n\nAbility to push back when scope is unsafe, make trade-offs explicit, and still keep the deployment moving.\n\nWillingness to travel when being in the room materially improves the outcome.\n\nWhat success looks like\n\nCustomers reach production with measurable outcomes and trust the system because the launch was rigorous. Each deployment makes the platform easier to deploy the next time.\n\nHow you’ll work with the team\n\nYou own execution of scoped POCs, customer integrations, evaluation, deployment, UAT, and controlled production rollout. Solutions Engineering leads pre-sale discovery and POC design. Agree scope, access owners, scoring criteria, dependencies, and the commercial path before delivery begins. Hand operational scope, baselines, known issues, and customer commitments to Customer Success after launch.\n\nAbout Sainapse\n\nSainapse builds agent-first software for customer operations, helping teams resolve work across the systems they already use. Our production work includes customer-support automation and document and order workflows, with configurable levels of autonomy and human review.\n\nWe are also building account-intelligence capabilities that connect customer signals across systems. 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