# Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) at Blaxel

- Company: Blaxel
- What the company does: Blaxel is the infrastructure foundation for autonomous agents: isolated microVMs that boot in milliseconds and resume in ~25ms, persistent shared memory, and programmable networking. Backed by Y Combinator.
- Company website: https://blaxel.ai
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: San Francisco
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $150K to $250K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-05-14
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/blaxel/4acea42a-589d-42b1-949e-d4ec4b8907a2
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/blaxel-forward-deployed-engineer-fde/

## About the role

Working side by side with our customers and interacting closely with Blaxel’s Product & Engineering teams, you’ll own the technical path from customer issues to successful deployment. Lead end-to-end technical discovery & implementation for strategic customer deployments.

## What they're looking for

- Customer-obsessed builder: You enjoy working directly with users and shipping solutions that solve real problems while ensuring retained success for the Blaxel product
- Strong engineer: You can write production code, navigate unfamiliar codebases quickly, and make pragmatic technical tradeoffs
- Systems generalist: You are comfortable moving between APIs, cloud infrastructure, containers, networking, observability, and application logic
- Fast in ambiguity: You can turn incomplete context into a concrete plan, then iterate as you learn
- Excellent communicator: You can explain tradeoffs clearly, align stakeholders, and keep momentum during tense debugging sessions
- High ownership: You don't stop at diagnosis. You drive problems through implementation, validation, documentation, and follow-up

Tags: Engineering