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# Forward Deployed Engineer

- **Company:** AUTOSCIENCE INSTITUTE
- **Location:** Menlo Park, United States
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Cloud Computing, Software Debugging, Python (Programming Language), Large Language Models, Containerization, Machine Learning Operations
- **Published:** October 13, 2026
- **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/forward-deployed-engineer-autoscience-10426169

## About the Role

* You're an unusually strong engineer who likes operating where the problem is poorly specified. You bring strong interpersonal judgment and communication skills, build trust with teammates and stakeholders, and collaborate effectively across different working styles and areas of expertise.
 * You get enjoyment from socializing with technical and non-technical customers
 * You should be comfortable opening an unfamiliar ML repository, understanding how the system works, getting it running, identifying what matters, and shipping something useful quickly.

You likely have:

 * Strong software engineering fundamentals and excellent Python skills.
 * Experience building, training, evaluating, or deploying machine learning systems.
 * Experience working with production cloud infrastructure and containerized workloads.
 * Strong debugging skills across software, infrastructure, data, and ML systems.
 * Experience owning technically complex projects from an ambiguous starting point through production.
 * Good judgment about when to build something robust and when to move quickly.
 * The ability to communicate deeply technical ideas with researchers, engineers, and technical leaders.
 * An eagerness to spend significant time working directly with customers.
 * A high degree of autonomy and comfort working in a fast-moving environment.

## Description

* Our comp is competitive against major LLM frontier lab packages
 * Unlimited PTO and flexible working arrangements
 * Conference attendance and publication support

Our Culture

We're a team of passionate researchers and engineers working to automate scientific discovery. We believe in the power of AI to accelerate scientific discovery and are committed to responsible AI development.