# Forward Deployed Software Engineer at Encord

- Company: Encord
- What the company does: Encord is the multimodal data layer for physical AI. Manage, curate, annotate, and align petabytes of data - from sensor streams to video to text. Trusted by 300+ AI teams including Woven by Toyota, AXA, UiPath, Zipline, and more. Backed by Y Combinator and CRV.
- Company website: https://encord.com
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: San Francisco
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-05-18
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/encord/9f97576a-5381-4839-a7cf-ebfa82089a63
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/encord-forward-deployed-software-engineer-2/

## About the role

We're looking for an exceptional Forward Deployed Software Engineer (FDSE) to join our product engineering team. This is an engineering-first role: FDSEs are the technical owners who take the Encord platform into our most strategic and advanced customer environments, working directly with clients' engineering teams to identify problems and design, build, and ship the solutions that solve them.

## What they're looking for

- Design and ship high-quality, production-grade code that integrates Encord into customers' most complex data and ML pipelines
- Own system design decisions for customer deployments, balancing correctness, scalability, and speed
- Work directly with clients' engineering teams to diagnose problems, scope solutions, and ship fixes end-to-end
- Build data integrations and technical solutions that support customer onboarding, adoption, and scale at pace
- Communicate technical plans and tradeoffs clearly to both engineering counterparts and non-technical stakeholders
- Operate with a high degree of autonomy: identify the right problem to solve, decide how to solve it, and see it through with minimal oversight

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