DRH Search LLC

Founding Forward Deployed Engineer

DRH Search LLC  •  San Francisco, CA (Onsite)  •  1 month ago
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Job Description

We're assisting a well-funded startup with their search for Founding Forward Deployed Engineers. Their product helps AI teams turn complex documents into LLM-ready inputs with exceptional accuracy. This role will work onsite in the SF office.
What you'll do:
  • Deploying and maintaining on-prem and VPC instances of the systems, often with complex enterprise constraints (e.g. air-gapped, custom auth, strict latency targets).

  • Building tooling to make deployments faster, more reliable, and easier to debug.

  • Creating diagnostics, dashboards, and eval harnesses to measure performance and track regressions across environments.

  • Writing crisp internal documentation and playbooks for repeatable deployments.

  • Collaborating closely with customers, support, and core engineers to identify high-impact improvements.

  • Acting as a feedback loop to the product and infra teams—surfacing usability gaps, unmet needs, and opportunities to deepen customer value.

  • Working directly with the founders and customers to shape the product direction and engineering strategy

Ideal Candidate Traits:
  • You have a high bar for quality and don’t rest until the job is done right—no settling for 90%. We want someone who ships fast, with high agency, and who doesn't just voice problems but actively jumps in to fix them.
  • You have 3 to 6 years of experience deploying software in production settings—ideally with enterprise or regulated customers.

  • You're excellent with Python and can navigate Bash and infrastructure as needed.

  • You're very comfortable with Kubernetes.

  • Tools: Build your own tools as needed—like a quick Streamlit app to test hypotheses or create a dataset.

  • Approach: A quantitative approach to building products. Ability to debug, experiment, and iterate fast. You should be comfortable getting hands-on with the full development lifecycle, from ideation to shipping to users.

Nice to haves:
  • Prior experience founding a company or building products at early stages

  • You are ambitious and driven, and care a lot about doing great work with great people

  • You keep up with the latest developments in ML/AI

DRH Search LLC

About DRH Search LLC

Our approach is simple but effective. We focus on getting to know the people we work with on both sides of the equation. Understanding a company's culture, vision, and goals are just as important as learning about their compensation package, organizational structure, and stock price. Likewise, it is imperative to know what motivates a candidate most and what their compatibility in certain work environments would look like. We strive to keep the focus on the personal aspects that contribute to successful professional relationships.

DRH Search likes to earn the trust of all organizations we partner with, and we offer a very affordable pricing model.

Industry
HR & Recruiting
Company Size
Unknown
Headquarters
Boston, Massachusetts
Year Founded
2019
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