# Forward Deployed Engineer (US) at Cekura

- Company: Cekura (YC F24)
- What the company does: Voice AI and Chat AI agents: Testing and Observability. Backed by Y Combinator.
- Company website: https://www.cekura.ai/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: San Francisco, CA, US
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $100K to $180K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-05-21
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/cekura-ai/jobs/AiWwUxI-forward-deployed-engineer-us
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/cekura-forward-deployed-engineer-us/

## About the role

We’re hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer to work directly with technical customers and help them get value from Cekura. You’ll sit at the intersection of customers, product, engineering, and GTM. Your job is to deeply understand how customers build agents, help them create self-improving loops with Cekura, and turn those learnings into better product and better process.

## What they're looking for

- You care deeply about customers and measurable outcomes
- You are technical enough to read API docs, inspect payloads, debug logs, and reason about systems
- You’re comfortable with APIs, webhooks, basic SQL, and Python or JavaScript
- You communicate clearly with both engineers and executives
- You like ambiguity, move fast, and create structure from scratch
- You use data to understand adoption, risk, value, and impact

Tags: Engineering