Forward Deployed Engineer (Hayward)

Hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer for an early-stage AI company (Backed by Founders Fund & OpenAI)At Dynamism, we partner with breakout startups backed by Founders Fund, OpenAI, Sequoia, a16z and Y Combinator to help them hire Forward Deployed Engineers with founder energy — people who embed deep inside enterprise customers, ship robust automations, and treat every deployment like their own product.One of our clients — a stealth, early-stage AI company backed by Founders Fund and OpenAI — is hiring an early-stage Forward Deployed Engineer (employee #7+). You'll embed inside Fortune-500 customers, do extensive process mining on their messiest workflows, and use the company's new AI programming language — which mixes structured control flow with unstructured English instructions — to automate the most complex processes in the world.A current customer (VP of Operations) said: We tried 130 different AI tools last year and churned all of them except this one. It not only worked, it accelerated our entire business.Location: SF or NYC (on-site, in-person)Comp Range: $150K–$220K base + meaningful equityStage: Early (employee #7+)Visa: Open to sponsoring (new or renewal)Stack: The company's own AI programming language + LLM tooling (GPT, Claude, agents)What You'll DoRun process mining sessions with enterprise customers — break down ambiguous workflows into precise, automatable stepsBuild robust automations using the company's AI-English programming languageOwn deployments end-to-end — pilot to full production rolloutOperate as the customer's trusted technical partner — relationship + deliverySet the playbook for how this company scales FDE across its customer baseYou Might Be a Fit If You...Have real-world SWE experience and ship production codeCame from a top university OR a high-bar startup (FAANG / unicorn / YC / similar)Have founding-engineer or founder experience (strong plus)Enjoy customer conversations and translating mess into structureAre operationally excellent — organised, high-agency, deadline-drivenWant a role where you call the shots inside Fortune-500 deploymentsBonus If You've...Been employee #1–10 at a high-growth startupOwned enterprise deployments end-to-endBuilt with LLM tooling (GPT, Claude, agents)Worked in devtools, infra, or workflow-automationShipped to a customer where the contract depended on your delivery