Forward Deployed Engineer
$160,000–$230,000 year
On-siteSan Francisco, California, United States
Job Summary
Ship partner integrations of agentic economy products from first technical call to production, building verification APIs, MCP servers, and credential flows for real-time counterparty checks. Create prototypes, demos, and reference implementations for partner meetings and community events, often on short notice. Own developer-facing quality by managing API ergonomics, documentation, sandbox environments, and integration guides. Get the MCP server listed in connection hubs and optimize agent experiences through tool descriptions and error handling. Represent the engineering team in partner calls to translate constraints into specs and share field learnings with product leadership.
Required Qualifications
- 5+ years shipping production software
- strong TypeScript and/or Python
- Deep API design and integration experience
- REST
- webhooks
- OAuth/JWT auth flows
- You've worked directly with customers or partners
- Hands-on with the modern agent stack
- MCP
- LLM tool-calling
- agent frameworks
- Can take a demo from idea to working in days
- an integration to production in weeks
- Thrive in ambiguity
- startup pace
- end-to-end ownership
Desired Qualifications
- You've built with MCP
- LLM tool-calling
- or agent frameworks
- Familiarity with verifiable credential standards
- SD-JWT-VC
- DIDs
- HTTP message signatures
- and/or identity infrastructure
- Payments or fintech background
- Prior forward-deployed, solutions engineering, or founding engineer experience
- An existing footprint in AI and agent-builder communities
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