Forward Deployed Engineer

Series A Legal-AI Company • South Bay Area (On-site)

Location

South Bay Area, CA (On-site)

Compensation

$160k–$200k base + competitive equity

About the company

Our client is a Series A AI company building systems for enterprise legal teams — the in-house counsel and legal operations groups inside large organisations. Founded in 2023, around 80 people, with $105M raised. Legal is a domain where a wrong answer is expensive, so the product has to earn trust from a sceptical, detail-driven audience.

The role

Forward deployed means you sit between the customer and the product: on-site with enterprise legal teams, understanding how they actually work, then building the integrations, workflows and configuration that make the platform fit. Part engineer, part solutions architect — you'll write real code, but the work starts with a customer problem rather than a ticket.

What you'll do

Work directly with enterprise legal teams to understand their workflows
Build integrations, workflows and configuration that fit the platform to each customer
Turn what you learn on-site into feedback that shapes the core product
Own technical delivery through to a customer being genuinely live
Move between customer conversations and hands-on engineering daily

What we're looking for

These are hard requirements. Check each one that applies to you.

2–6 years building software in a customer-facing engineering role
Strong Python and JavaScript
Comfortable working directly with enterprise customers, not only with a backlog
Based in the South Bay Area or willing to relocate — this role is on-site
Authorised to work in the US or eligible for a visa transfer — no first-time sponsorship

Please note: every item above is a hard requirement for this role. Applications that don't meet all of them will be rejected. We recommend applying only if you check every box.

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Nice to have

Previous forward deployed, solutions or implementation engineering experience
Has worked with enterprise customers in a regulated or compliance-heavy domain
Exposure to legal technology or professional services workflows

Tech stack

Python and JavaScript, with Java in places, integrating against enterprise systems including the Microsoft Office stack.

Compensation & logistics

$160k–$200k base + competitive equity
On-site in the South Bay Area, California
Around 80 people, Series A, $105M raised
Visa transfers considered — no first-time sponsorship
3–5 hires planned

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