Forward Deployed Engineer
TaskrabbitBase Salary
$175k - $225k/yr
Responsibilities
- Embed with internal business functions to conduct technical discovery and scope workflow-based solutions.
- Design, write, test, and deploy Claude-powered agents, automations, and internal tools through production.
- Own deployments end-to-end, including reliability, model selection, context and caching strategy, evaluations, human review checkpoints, error handling, and cost forecasting.
- Define baselines, instrument solutions, and measure business impact through metrics such as time saved, error rate, and throughput.
- Translate business needs into technical tradeoffs, influence stakeholders, and align priorities with senior leaders and company objectives.
- Train non-technical teams, create reusable implementation playbooks, and scale successful patterns across the organization.
Requirements
- At least 2 years of professional, hands-on experience building AI agents, automations, or internal tools with direct independent production-code experience using Claude.
- Experience writing, testing, debugging, and owning production software rather than relying exclusively on no-code or low-code platforms.
- Fluency with API integration, MCP, version control, testing, and production system debugging.
- Ability to make decisions involving model selection, caching, cost, reliability, failure modes, data sensitivity, redaction, and human-in-the-loop workflows.
- Experience embedding with non-technical teams, conducting discovery, scoping builds, and determining when AI is not the right solution.
- Ability to enable others, communicate with empathy, influence senior leaders and frontline teams, and measure outcomes in business terms.
- Self-directed, scrappy builder comfortable working without dedicated engineering support in a fast-paced, resource-constrained environment.
- Marketplace, gig-economy, or high-growth startup experience is preferred.
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement requiring two in-office days each week on Tuesdays and Wednesdays at 130 Sutter Street in San Francisco.
- Employer-paid health insurance and a 401k match with immediate vesting for US employees.
- Generous and flexible paid time off, including two company-wide closure weeks.
- Product, wellness, productivity, and education stipends, IKEA discounts, reproductive health support, and additional perks.
- Benefits vary by country of employment.
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About Taskrabbit
Taskrabbit is a marketplace platform that conveniently connects people with Taskers to handle everyday home to-do’s, such as furniture assembly, handyman work, moving help, and much more. Acquired by IKEA Group - the world’s largest furniture retailer - in 2017 At Taskrabbit, we want to make your neighborhood a little more familiar. Whether it’s a handyman (or woman!), a housecleaner, moving help or delivery person, we’re imagining a world where everyone will have a go-to team to make everyday life easier. As a company we celebrate innovation, inclusion and hard work. As a pioneer of the sharing economy, Taskrabbit was founded on the premise of neighbors helping neighbors. Since then, our network has grown to eight countries and 75+ cities, yet our core mission of creating a better everyday life for everyday people has remained the same. Together with IKEA, we’re creating more opportunities for people to earn a consistent, meaningful income on their own terms by building lasting relationships with clients in communities around the world. We are a group of mission-minded people. Our culture is collaborative, pragmatic, and fast-paced. We’re looking for talented, entrepreneurially-minded and data-driven people who also have a passion for helping people do what they love - and have a ton of fun while they’re at it.