Blaxel

Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE)

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3 months ago

Base Salary

$150k - $225k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Lead end-to-end technical discovery and implementation for strategic customer deployments.
  • Work directly with engineering stakeholders and executives to understand issues, architecture constraints, and success criteria.
  • Build on Blaxel platform APIs, SDKs, sandboxes, CI/CD systems, observability tools, and customer infrastructure.
  • Improve customer workload reliability, performance, cost, and operational visibility to support customer success and retention.
  • Bring technically detailed customer learnings back to product and engineering teams to inform roadmap decisions.
  • Implement, validate, document, and follow up on solutions from diagnosis through successful deployment.

Requirements

  • Strong proficiency in TypeScript/Node or Python; Go, Rust, or systems-level engineering experience is a plus.
  • Experience building and shipping production software, ideally in backend, infrastructure, cloud, developer platform, or AI product environments.
  • Comfort with APIs, Docker, Kubernetes or similar orchestration, AWS, GCP, Azure, Linux, networking fundamentals, and CI/CD.
  • Useful experience includes agent frameworks, sandboxes, LLM applications, model-provider routing, evaluation workflows, vector databases, workflow orchestration, SSO/RBAC, security reviews, private networking, or compliance constraints.
  • Prior forward-deployed, solutions, platform, customer engineering, founding engineering, or high-context consulting experience is helpful but not required.
Blaxel

About Blaxel

1-10 employees

Blaxel keeps infinite, secure sandboxes on automatic standby to run AI code, while co-hosting your agents for near instant latency.