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Blaxel

Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE)

San Francisco$150k–$250kfulltimemidAdded 1 month ago

About this role

Blaxel seeks a Forward Deployed Engineer to work directly with strategic customers deploying AI agent infrastructure in production. You'll bridge customer needs with product capabilities, owning technical discovery, implementation, debugging, and feedback loops that shape the platform roadmap.

What you'll do

  • Lead end-to-end technical discovery and deployment for strategic customer implementations
  • Engage with customer stakeholders to understand architecture, constraints, and success criteria
  • Build integrations using Blaxel APIs, SDKs, sandboxes, and CI/CD systems
  • Debug agent deployments, networking behavior, and runtime issues in customer environments
  • Translate customer learnings into actionable product and roadmap feedback
  • Ensure customer success by improving workload reliability, performance, cost, and observability

What they're looking for

  • TypeScript/Node.js or Python
  • Production backend or infrastructure engineering
  • Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure)
  • APIs, networking fundamentals, and CI/CD systems
  • AI agents, LLMs, and agentic frameworks
  • Systems-level thinking across infrastructure and application logic
  • Clear communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders
  • High ownership and pragmatic problem-solving in ambiguous contexts
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Blaxel

Blaxel builds an AI-powered cloud computing platform designed to run AI agent infrastructure at scale with ultra-low-latency performance. The company is hiring founding engineers for product design, customer deployment, and site reliability roles to ship features, support strategic customers, and operate core infrastructure.

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Likely interview questions

  • Tell us about a time you debugged a production issue in an unfamiliar codebase under time pressure. How did you approach it and what did you learn?
  • Describe your experience deploying applications to cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP/Azure). What's the most complex deployment or infrastructure issue you've had to troubleshoot?
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