Forward Deployed Engineer

VC-backed frontier AI start-up | Paris (hybrid and customer-site)

About

AI agents often work cleanly in demos and fall apart when they meet a customer’s real systems, data and constraints. Your job is to close that gap: identify an important multi-step workflow, integrate the necessary tools and ship something that proves value quickly.

You’ll join a VC-backed frontier AI start-up building agents that navigate software and complete enterprise workflows. The business is moving quickly into large organisations, and this team turns field deployments into improvements that the wider product can reuse.

You’ll embed with one customer at a time and spend around two days each week on-site. An Implementation Strategist handles much of the project management and stakeholder coordination, leaving this role approximately 80% hands‑on and technical.

What you'll do

• Identify high-value customer workflows that agents can automate
• Build working solutions against real databases, APIs and internal tools
• Integrate LLMs and agentic workflows into existing customer systems
• Architect and deploy APIs, services, data pipelines and user interfaces
• Iterate quickly using feedback from users and customer teams
• Turn deployment-specific work into clear input for the core platform
• Work closely with product, research and engineering on priorities

What you'll need

• A strong computer science or engineering foundation, with evidence of writing and deploying production code
• Experience shipping software that real users depend on
• Hands‑on experience with LLM integrations, RAG or agentic workflows
• Fluency in a backend language such as Python, Go, Node.js or Java
• Experience integrating third‑party APIs, databases and external systems
• Confidence working directly with enterprise customers under short deadlines
• Working French and English, plus regular availability for customer sites in Paris

Optional Bonus

• Experience in forward deployment, technical consulting or solutions engineering
• Familiarity with React, Vue or similar frontend frameworks
• Early-stage startup experience

Shortlisted candidates will be contacted within 48 hours.