About Careertakes

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Applicants for this role may also receive access to additional matched opportunities through the Careertakes platform.

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The Role

This is a deployment-first, customer-facing software engineering role (forward-deployed engineering). You will embed with enterprise teams, build tailored agents and integrations, and run deployments end-to-end. This position is in-office in San Francisco, CA.

Salary range (provided by the confidential client): $150,000–$250,000 per year.

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What You’ll Do

• Embed with customer teams (particularly finance/accounting) to map workflows, capture tribal knowledge, and remove manual work.
• Build, customize, and deploy agents and integrations that operate across customers' systems and edge cases.
• Work across the stack — backend services, frontend demos, and ML-adjacent configuration or fine-tuning.
• Align multiple stakeholders (finance, IT, product, security) to drive fast time-to-value for deployments.
• Feed real-world patterns back into the product roadmap and help prioritize platform improvements.
• Present demos and run customer-facing sessions with clear narration, pacing, and visual clarity.
• Run engagements independently after a short ramp / shadowing period.

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What We’re Looking For

• Strong generalist engineer — comfortable across backend (Node, Postgres), frontend (React + TypeScript), and ML-adjacent work (fine-tuning, agent configuration).
• High technical bar with the ability to close customer gaps quickly; pragmatic problem-solving.
• Excellent communicator — translates between technical and non-technical stakeholders clearly and persuasively.
• High EQ and commercial instinct — focused on business outcomes rather than just technical metrics.
• Good design and presentation taste for customer-facing demos (visual clarity, demo pacing, narrative).
• Self-directed, comfortable in ambiguity, and able to own an engagement end-to-end.

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Qualifications

• 0–2 years experience (new grads and candidates with internship experience encouraged).
• Backgrounds that fit particularly well: solutions/growth engineering, technical founders, forward-deployed engineering or technical consulting with direct customer-facing experience.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience preferred but not strictly required.

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Nice to Have

• Experience at teams or firms that pioneered forward-deployed engineering or technical consulting.
• Prior work on customer-facing demos or designing intuitive workflows for non-technical users.
• Familiarity with production integrations into enterprise systems (ERP, accounting tools, CRMs).

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Compensation & Location

• Visible salary range: $150,000–$250,000 / year.
• Location: San Francisco, CA — this role is in-office.
• The confidential client is an early-stage (seed) company focused on building AI systems that eliminate entire classes of manual work (e.g., reconciliation, invoice/PO matching, month-end close).

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Benefits

• All meals covered
• Full health coverage
• 401(k)
• Unlimited PTO
• Relocation support
• New computer and gear
• Team off-sites

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Visa & Work Authorization

Visa sponsorship is available for this role. The confidential client will consider candidates who require sponsorship.

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Equal Opportunity & Hiring Transparency

Careertakes and our client are Equal Opportunity Employers committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce. We prohibit discrimination or harassment of any kind. To support a fair and efficient hiring process, AI tools may be used to assist with application review or resume screening. These tools do not replace human decision-making. Final hiring decisions are made by people.

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