Senior Forward Deployed Engineer

Giga
San Francisco
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeFunction: Solutions Engineering & Sales EngineeringExperience: 5+ yearsSkills: ["Customer-facing","Mentorship","High agency","Autonomy","Calm under pressure"]

Own end-to-end deployments of real-time AI agent systems for Fortune 500 environments, including enterprise integrations and performance/quality trade-offs. Serve as the technical anchor for an FDE pod, raising the engineering bar through design and code reviews, mentoring engineers, and escalating the hardest production issues (voice latency, telephony edge cases, integration failures). Build eval harnesses, deployment tooling, and debugging infrastructure to make future pods faster.

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Giga
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Senior Forward Deployed Engineer

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Job Summary

Own end-to-end deployments of real-time AI agent systems for Fortune 500 environments, including enterprise integrations and performance/quality trade-offs. Serve as the technical anchor for an FDE pod, raising the engineering bar through design and code reviews, mentoring engineers, and escalating the hardest production issues (voice latency, telephony edge cases, integration failures). Build eval harnesses, deployment tooling, and debugging infrastructure to make future pods faster.
Location: San Francisco
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Solutions Engineering & Sales Engineering
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Architect agent systems for Fortune 500 environments and own the hardest deployments end-to-end, including enterprise integrations and production trade-offs.
  • •Set the engineering bar for the pod through design and code reviews, mentor FDE I/II engineers, and serve as the escalation point for live issues.
  • •Build leverage via eval harnesses, deployment tooling, debugging infrastructure, and reusable patterns that compound across pods.
  • •Turn deployment learnings into prototypes and concrete product asks, partnering with core engineering to land platform improvements.
  • •Lead architecture discussions with customer engineering leadership and act as the trusted technical partner when production breaks.

Pay and Benefits

Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Meal AllowanceDinner StipendWellness Stipend401kHealth InsuranceDentalVision

Key Requirements

  • •5+ years of production software engineering, including shipping and operating real systems at scale.
  • •Expertise in Python, APIs, cloud infrastructure, and CI/CD, with experience debugging distributed systems under pressure.
  • •Hands-on experience with LLM agent systems, including orchestration, tool calling, evals, and context engineering.
  • •Ability to engage enterprise stakeholders and translate ambiguity into a clear plan during live production incidents.
  • •High agency—identify and drive the highest-leverage problems with limited or no guidance.
Experience:5+ yearsAI agentsEnterprise softwareVoice AIConversational AI
Skills:Customer-facingMentorshipHigh agencyAutonomyCalm under pressure
Tech Stack:PythonAPIsCloud infrastructureCI/CDLLM agent systemsOrchestrationTool callingEvalsContext engineering

Company Brief

Giga
Builds emotionally intelligent, real‑time AI voice and chat agents to automate enterprise B2C customer support, handling complex workflows, multilingual voice, and integrations for large enterprises like DoorDash.
Industry: AI & Machine Learning
Company Size: Medium (51 to 250 employees)
Growth: Growth Stage Startup
Funding: Series A
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2023
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