Forward Deployed Engineer

Kake is a remote-first company and a people-first global community of senior engineers. Kake engineers are behind some of the world’s most innovative products (Brands you’ve heard!), from Fortune 500 to fast-growing companies. We believe it’s not where your table is, but what you bring to the table that matters. Our community spans 45,000+ engineers across 55+ countries; join a culture where great people stay, grow, and thrive (and love eating kake!).

We're looking for a Forward Deployed Engineer to partner with customer engineering teams and put an AI platform to work on their hardest technical problems. This role is focused on designing, building, and deploying production-grade applications, integrations, and data pipelines directly alongside customer teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Partner directly with customer engineering and business teams to scope the highest-impact use cases
• Design, build, and deploy production-grade applications, integrations, and data pipelines on top of the platform
• Prototype rapidly in close collaboration with customers, refining based on their feedback
• Work hands-on with LLM-based systems, from prompting and RAG to agent workflows, debugging and resolving issues in live, in-production deployments, often under time pressure
• Turn recurring customer needs into concrete feedback for product and engineering to improve the core platform