Forward Deployed Engineer [New grads ok]
Job Description
- Prior work with LLMs, ML frameworks, or agent architectures
- Build enterprise-grade AI agents from the ground up
- Work closely with our CTO, Sashank
- Talk to customers, understand their flows, and translate those into robust agentic solutions
- Implement cutting-edge AI capabilities in production
- Strong foundation in software engineering principles
- Passionate about AI, ML, and building intelligent systems
- Self-directed problem solver who thrives in ambiguity
- Experience with Python, modern web frameworks, and cloud infrastructure
- Competitive salary
- Meaningful equity
- Comprehensive benefits
About the role
We're looking for exceptional people to join our engineering team as Forward Deployed Engineers. This is not your typical new grad role - we’re hiring cracked engineers eager to shape the future of agentic AI systems
What you'll do
- Build enterprise-grade AI agents from the ground up
- Work closely with our CTO, Sashank, who brings experience from building speech and language models at Apple’s AI/ML org
- Talk to customers, understand their flows, and translate those into robust agentic solutions
- Implement cutting-edge AI capabilities in production
- Collaborate with a small, elite team of engineers from Google X, Microsoft, Apple, Meta, …
Why This Role
You’ll be at the forefront of AI agent system design, working alongside experienced engineers and contributing meaningfully from day one. This is a rare opportunity to get deep technical mentorship while building frontier tech that solves critical problems for businesses.
Who You Are
- Recent graduate with a CS/related degree (or equivalent experience)
- Strong foundation in software engineering principles
- Passionate about AI, ML, and building intelligent systems
- Self-directed problem solver who thrives in ambiguity
- Experience with Python, modern web frameworks, and cloud infrastructure
- Bonus: Prior work with LLMs, ML frameworks, or agent architectures
Our Culture
We’re a small, driven team that values technical rigor, intellectual curiosity, and speed. Our engineers come from top-tier teams like Microsoft, Apple. We care deeply about ownership and pushing boundaries together.
Location
San Francisco, CA (Remote options within USA available for exceptional candidates)
Compensation
Competitive salary, meaningful equity, comprehensive benefits
FurtherAI is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity at our company.
About FurtherAI
At FurtherAI, we are building a workforce of AI Teammates to automate insurance workflows. These AI Teammates can practically automate any insurance workflow involving processing unstructured documents, data entry into internal systems or web portals, or even making phone calls.
Our core mission is to answer a critical question: Can AI be made as reliable, adaptive, and continuously learning as a new human employee?
We have raised a $5MM seed round from top-tier investors, including Y Combinator, South Park Commons, Nexus VP and Converge VC. Our founding team features a second time founder and a language modeling scientist from Apple, who have known each other for over 12 years.
