Gumloop

Senior Forward Deployed Agentic Engineer

Gumloop
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1 month ago
Vancouver, Canada or San Francisco, CA, USASenior

Base Salary

$175k - $265k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Work directly with customer teams and executives to identify and scope high-value AI opportunities.
  • Map business processes, connect systems, and structure data so agents operate reliably in customer environments.
  • Build, test, deploy, and iterate on Gumloop agents, measuring success through adoption and business impact.
  • Partner with Customer Success and Education to enable customers to take ownership and expand usage.
  • Convert deployment learnings into reusable patterns and feedback for Product and Engineering.
  • Travel to customer sites as needed, up to about 30%, and operate effectively through ambiguity.

Requirements

  • 4+ years of technical experience with a track record of shipping useful agents or connected systems beyond prototypes.
  • Technical foundation in Computer Science, Mathematics, Software Engineering, Data Science, or equivalent hands-on experience.
  • Experience deploying or implementing software in enterprise environments, including process mapping and working with customer data.
  • Working familiarity with JSON, JavaScript, Git, MCPs, and data-structure discussions sufficient to build and debug in the field.
  • Ability to communicate clearly with technical and non-technical audiences, including frontline users and executives.
  • Strong judgment under ambiguity and a hands-on approach to selecting and solving important problems.
  • Willingness to travel up to 30% for onsite customer work.
  • Experience in consulting, professional services, or implementation at a high-growth company is a bonus.
  • Prior Forward Deployed Engineering, Solutions Engineering, or deployment-engineering experience is a bonus.
  • Familiarity with agent tooling, MCP servers, and production LLM workflows is a bonus.

Benefits

  • Highly competitive salary and meaningful equity.
  • 24 paid time-off days for San Francisco employees and 20 days globally.
  • $350/month wellness benefit for eligible wellness-related expenses.
  • 15 days of temporary remote-work flexibility per year.
  • 401k/RRSP match up to 6%.
  • Customer-site travel may be required up to about 30%.

Tech Stack

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Forward Deployed
Gumloop

About Gumloop

11-50 employees

Gumloop builds an AI automation platform that lets non-technical teams design, deploy, and manage secure LLM agents and workflows, with controls for data access, model choice, and hosting in the customer’s cloud. It sells enterprise software used by marketing, sales, ops, and support to automate business processes. Founded in 2023 and based in San Francisco, it is backed by Benchmark, First Round, and Y Combinator, with customers including Shopify, Instacart, DoorDash, Webflow, Gusto, and Samsara.

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