Forward Deployed Software Engineer

About this role

Forward Deployed Software Engineer

Full-time · San Francisco · On-sit

e💰 Compensation : $350K to $450K base salary plus meaningful equit

**y 📍 Locatio** n: San Francisco, on-si

teAt Dynamism, we partner with breakout startups backed by Sequoia, a16z, and Y Combinator to help them hire engineers with founder energy, people who build fast, think like owners, and thrive in zero-to-one environment

s.We're hiring for this role at an early-stage applied AI company building high-fidelity environments, tasks, data, and evaluation infrastructure that help frontier models learn reliable behavior in real work. The company works closely with frontier AI labs and enterprises, and is backed by Sequoia Capital, Menlo Ventures, BCV, and SV Angel. Its engineering-first team brings together former founders, researchers, and deeply technical builders who value speed with rigor, truth over comfort, and precision under pressur

e.🎯 The Ro

leYou will build the software that makes each partner deployment fast, repeatable, and difficult to break. You will work across integrations, environment runtimes, data, task generation, and evaluation tooling while staying close to the researchers and technical teams using the wor

k.🧩 What You'll O

wn• Tooling and services that turn bespoke environment and evaluation work into repeatable deploymen

ts • Integrations with partner infrastructure under real security, reliability, and data constrai

nts • Environment runtimes, task pipelines, realistic data, and evaluation harne

sses • Debugging across model behavior, software, data, and infrastructure failure

modes • Systems that preserve quality as deployment volume and complexit

y grow✅ You Might Be a Fit

If You• Have founded a company, worked as an early engineer, or owned outcomes in a high agency envir

onment • Are a technical generalist who can cross engineering, research, data, and partner-faci

ng work • Can communicate with clarity while priorities and context change

quickly • Use AI agents deeply while retaining your own technical taste and

judgment • Think in systems and move quickly without sacrificing detail or r

eliabili

ty🛠 StackPython, TypeScript, containers, distributed systems, data tooling, evaluation harnesses, AI agent

workflowsBonus

if you've:• Built or led an early-sta

ge company • Worked on AI evaluations, post-training, model behavior, or simulated e

nvironments • Collaborated directly with frontier model researchers or demanding technic

al customers • Built deployment, data, or research infrastructure under rapidly changing

requirements📋

Role Details• Compensation: $350K to $450K base salary plus mean

ingful equity • Location: San Fran

cisco, on-site • Full-t

ime and on-siteThis role will not suit someone looking for routine, a narrow technical silo, or a management-only position. The team moves quickly, expects direct ownership, and does not trade qua

lity for speed.Apply via LinkedIn, or reach us at apply@

sfdynamism.com.