Amigo

Staff Forward Deployed Engineer [NYC or SF]

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2 months ago
San Francisco, CA, USA or New York, NY, USAStaff+

Base Salary

$240k - $300k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Lead AI deployments for healthcare customers from initial engagement through production.
  • Translate ambiguous customer needs into technical plans with clear owners and timelines.
  • Set architecture and engineering standards for the team.
  • Make tradeoff decisions about what to build, reuse, or defer.
  • Work directly with customers to manage scope, timelines, and quality.
  • Grow engineers and raise the technical and operational bar of the team.

Requirements

  • Experience leading significant engineering work end to end as a tech lead, staff engineer, or engineering manager.
  • Ability to break complex, ambiguous problems into work that other engineers can own and deliver.
  • Real experience with LLMs and agent systems, or sufficient technical depth to develop that expertise quickly.
  • Strong judgment in making tradeoffs and pushing back when proposed solutions do not meet the required standard.
  • Ability to lead through architecture, people management, or both.
  • Ability to work on site in New York City or San Francisco.
  • Preferred experience in regulated or high-reliability domains such as healthcare, finance, or legal.
  • Preferred experience shipping production AI or ML systems.
  • Preferred customer-facing or forward-deployed engineering experience.
  • Preferred experience growing engineers or running a small team.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance.
  • Daily catered lunch and dinner.
  • Mental health support and wellness coaching.
  • Flexible wellness stipend for fitness, therapy, or personal growth.
  • Annual learning budget for courses, books, or conferences.
  • Conference attendance budget for professional development.
  • Annual team offsite.
  • Academic collaboration opportunities.
  • Unlimited PTO.
  • Full-time employee benefits are available.
  • The team works in person in New York City or San Francisco.

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About Amigo

11-50 employees
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