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# Forward Deployed Engineer

- **Company:** CHAKRA LAB LLC
- **Location:** New York, NY, United States
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** $200,000.0 - $280,000.0
- **Contract:** Temporary contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Python (Programming Language), PostgreSQL, Next.js, TypeScript, Reinforcement Learning, Golang
- **Published:** October 13, 2026
- **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/chakra-labs-member-of-technical-staff-forward-deployed-decircle-10425769

## About the Role

Forward Deployed Engineer with 2-5 years of experience joining Chakra Labs as a fast-moving generalist who bridges the gap between the platform and what frontier AI lab customers need: shaping data, spinning up dashboards, handcrafting RL tasks and building quick features, on tight timelines at the cutting edge of post-training and agent research., * 2-5 years of full-stack software engineering in fast-paced environments

 * Fast-moving generalist comfortable with ad hoc customer requests on tight timelines
 * TypeScript, Python, Go; Vercel, Supabase, AWS/EKS
 * On-site in Flatiron, Manhattan, NYC

## Description

* Shape data created by human experts to fit the specific requirements of frontier AI lab customers
 * Build quick plugins, features, or temporary improvements to existing data-collection systems
 * Handcraft reinforcement learning task samples tailored to customer needs
 * Spin up customer-facing interfaces like dashboards and portals on short timelines
 * Identify when one-off custom builds should be generalized into the core platform