# Forward Deployed Engineer

- Company: [Strala Ai](<https://jobstar.asia/company/strala-ai>)
- Location: San Francisco
- Team: Engineering
- Employment type: Full Time
- Posted: August 4, 2025

## Job description

**TL;DR:** Strala is rebuilding the foundation of the world’s largest industry - insurance.

In less than a year, we reached multi seven-figure ARR and are growing 50% MOM. We raised two rounds from Tier 1 funds including Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund, led by the partner who was early in OpenAI, Cognition and Scale AI. Our team comes from institutions like Harvard, Berkeley & Oxford and firms like Optiver, AMD & Palantir (+ICPC, NeurIPS backgrounds).

**In this role you will**

* You will individually deploy multi-modal, agentic AI systems into production with major business impact. You own client deployments end-to-end, from scoping through go-live, acting as the primary point of contact for senior client stakeholders.
* Build and manage client relationships: understand challenges, align priorities, and become the trusted partner executives rely on to scale their AI adoption.
* Design, build, and evolve AI agents that deliver optimal claims outcomes, including prompt engineering, model integration, and blitz prototyping using AI-assisted coding tools.
* Work with applied AI on a daily basis. You scope and develop new features that allow our customers to scale while consistently improving claims results.
* Help integrate our product into client environments, working hands-on with their tech teams on APIs and systems.
* Coordinate with our core platform team to ensure smooth delivery and improve the product with actionable insights.
* Capture and share best practices in internal playbooks to scale Forward Deployed Engineering.

**You will thrive if you**

* Think and operate like a founder. You take ownership of problems, move fast, and figure it out, whether that means jumping on a client call or writing a quick integration.
* Have 2+ years in a role combining technical depth with client-facing ownership (e.g. agent engineering, forward deployed engineering, growth engineer, or founding engineer/founder).
* Have a solid technical foundation: comfort with Python, APIs, cloud platforms, and modern AI/ML tooling. You are genuinely technical and can build.
* Are familiar with LLMs, prompt engineering, and agentic AI concepts, and comfortable with AI-assisted development workflows to ship solutions fast.
* Excel at explaining the connection between complex technical concepts and business outcomes to both technical and non-technical audiences.
* Want to own client relationships, project outcomes, and write code.

**Values**

* **Ambition:** We want to win, and we need to be the best
* **Performance:** Speed, system thinking, efficiency
* **Ownership:** When we see a problem, we take ownership of it, and we solve it
* **Spirit:** Clarity, optimism, meritocracy

**We Offer**

* **Impact** - Shape a company, redefine an industry, and make your code impact millions.
* **Intensity** - Complex problems, ownership, in-person in SF - we are here to solve problems and win.
* **Reward** - Interesting work, top quartile salary, top quartile equity.
* **Team** - Everyone on our team considers themselves the most competitive and intense person they have ever met.
* **Zero Barriers** - We want the best people and will do whatever it takes. That includes covering all meals and paying for any product that makes you more productive.

## Apply

[Apply on Strala Ai](<https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/strala-ai/efa58c03-377d-4f72-92e0-f94b1e19a4d2>)

Canonical job page: <https://jobstar.asia/job/forward-deployed-engineer-strala-ai-san-francisco-f692473b6a991022>
