# Forward Deployed Engineer at Infer

- Company: Infer (YC S21)
- What the company does: Operating system for insurance agencies. Backed by Y Combinator, a16z and Antler.
- Company website: https://www.infer.so/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: San Francisco, CA, US
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $110K to $180K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-05-09
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/infer/jobs/zrZchOv-forward-deployed-engineer
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/infer-forward-deployed-engineer/

## About the role

We're hiring our first US Forward Deployed Engineer to own customer deployments end to end. You'll work directly with insurance agencies, build integrations into the systems they already use, and turn messy real-world workflows into AI agents that work in production. Building an AI agent is only one part of the job. The harder part is making it work inside an agency's actual operating system.

## What they're looking for

- Engineering chops. At least 2 years shipping production code, fluent in Python, comfortable with APIs and multiple systems talking to each other. Familiarity with voice or telephony stacks (Twilio, or similar) is a strong plus
- Customer translator. You like talking to customers. You can take tribal knowledge from an agency owner or senior CSR and turn it into a system design, and you can hold the same conversation with someone who has never heard of an API without losing them
- Full-loop ownership. Discover the need, build the solution, get it live, make sure it's adopted. You stay hands-on through go-live because the gap between what the product does today and what the customer needs is where the work is
- High agency. You've started something yourself, worked early at a startup, or owned ambiguous projects without a playbook. You move fast, make decisions with incomplete information, and are comfortable challenging the founders when we are wrong
- Willingness to travel. Our customers are agencies across the US, and the best deployments often happen on site

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