Forward-Deployed Engineer

Embed with our customers. Take an AI companion, character, or B2B2C agent from blank repo to production on the Sonzai Relationship Layer — and keep iterating with them in the loop.

About the Role

Forward‑Deployed Engineers are the people who go in with those customers and ship. You'll sit inside one or two accounts at a time, learn their product cold, and design the agent loop end to end: memory shape, personality, retrieval, evaluation, the surface their users actually touch. You'll write production code, not slideware.

This is the closest seat to the customer outside the founders. What you learn comes back into the platform: the patterns you ship become primitives in the SDK; the bugs you hit become the next quarter's roadmap.

What You'll Own

• End-to-end builds — Companions, characters, B2B2C deployments, white‑label brand voices. You scope, architect, build, and ship — usually 4‑12 weeks per engagement.
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