Bland

Forward Deployed Engineer

Bland
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4 months ago
San Francisco, CA, USAMid Level / Senior

Base Salary

$120k - $200k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Translate customer challenges and workflows into functional, production-ready AI agents.
  • Integrate APIs and data sources to automate business processes.
  • Rapidly prototype, deploy, test, and iterate on solutions using real-world feedback.
  • Collaborate with customer engineering, product, and operations teams to ensure agent performance, scalability, and measurable outcomes.
  • Own end-to-end technical delivery from discovery through deployment and refinement.
  • Train customer teams, share results, drive adoption and expansion, and identify new automation opportunities.
  • Travel to customer sites and build strong relationships with customer stakeholders.

Requirements

  • 3–10 years of experience in full-stack, AI, or solutions engineering roles with ownership of builds from concept to production.
  • Experience building and integrating AI or automation features into real-world applications.
  • Hands-on experience integrating LLMs or AI SDKs into web applications.
  • Comfort with REST/JSON, Python or JavaScript, Git, and NPM or PNPM.
  • Strong ownership, problem-solving, communication, and adaptability in a fast-moving environment.
  • Willingness to work frequently in person at the San Francisco headquarters and customer sites.
  • Experience with LLM-powered tools or agents, startup or founder experience, AI agent design, customer-facing solution development, or relevant personal projects is preferred.
  • Exceptional new graduates with strong ownership and ambition are welcome to apply.

Benefits

  • Meaningful equity and benefits are offered.
  • Work is based frequently in person at the San Francisco headquarters and customer sites.
  • The office is located in Jackson Square, San Francisco, with rooftop views and nearby coffee shops.
  • The role includes travel to customer sites and hosting customer training sessions and dinners.

Tech Stack

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Forward Deployed
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About Bland

51-200 employees

Bland builds AI phone agents for enterprises, providing APIs and infrastructure to automate inbound and outbound calls, route conversations, and integrate with CRMs and contact-center systems. Its platform combines speech-to-text, large language models, neural audio, and text-to-speech to handle customer interactions end to end. Founded in 2023 and privately held, the company targets telecom and enterprise software use cases such as support, scheduling, and sales operations.

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