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Forward Deployed Research Engineer

Composio · sf · On-site

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About Composio

Just-in-time tool calls, secure delegated auth, sandboxed environments, and parallel execution across 1,500+ apps. Backed by Lightspeed.

About the role

• own enterprise accounts end to end: discovery, spec, implementation, QA, release. • ship production code in our toolkit monorepo and customer SDKs: custom and composite tools, schema and scope changes, per-customer patches.

What they're looking for

  • if you are very good, nothing is a must per-se
  • • applied integration engineering
  • – you ship production code, not demos
  • – you live in enterprise APIs and auth: OAuth 2.0, consent models, scope design, multi workspace tokens. you know the edge cases from scars
  • – you make architecture calls under pressure and defend them to a customer's principal engineers
  • • customer technical ownership
More about this role

At Composio, we are building infrastructure that allows agents to communicate with the tools you use for work including Github, Gmail, Notion, Salesforce, etc. We are a small team of engineers wrangling problems from context to search, that help us provide the most capable bridge between your agents and your tools. We raised a $25M Series A from Lightspeed with angels like Guillermo Rauch (CEO of Vercel), Dharmesh Shah (CTO of Hubspot), and Gokul Rajaram. We've 3x'd our ARR this year, and our customers range from your friends in the YC batch to Wabi, Glean, Zoom and many more.

the action layer for AI agents is the least-solved part of the stack. this role works at that frontier: embedded with the customers pushing hardest, turning open research questions into tools their agents use, shipping the code yourself.

• turning an 800-endpoint enterprise API into a tool surface a model can navigate. tool granularity, composite tools, description engineering, scope design. no textbook exists; you write it in production.

• building the evals that tell us an agent picked the right tool. the field has no good answer; your harnesses become ours.

• working directly with the engineers defining...

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