# Forward Deployed Engineer at Lemma

- Company: Lemma (YC F25)
- What the company does: Production Monitoring for AI agents. Backed by Y Combinator.
- Company website: https://www.uselemma.ai/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: San Francisco, CA, US
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $150K to $200K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-08-13
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/uselemma/jobs/vWvNh1i-forward-deployed-engineer
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/lemma-forward-deployed-engineer/

## About the role

Lemma reads all of your agent conversations, finds the failures nobody knew to look for, and opens the PR that fixes them. This role is that motion, productized. You go into a new customer, get them to the moment where Lemma surfaces something that makes them sit up, and then take everything you learned doing it by hand and turn it into product so the next customer doesn't need you in the room.

## What they're looking for

- 3+ years shipping production software, plus something in your history that shows you're good in front of customers. Forward deployed, solutions engineering, consulting, founding, running your own thing
- Strong TypeScript. You'll be reading unfamiliar agent codebases constantly and writing patches for them
- You've built with agents and have real opinions about why they fail
- Genuinely fast. Our whole pitch is compressing the time between "something is broken" and "it's fixed." You should embody that
- Comfortable with the ambiguity of walking into a company you don't know and figuring out what matters in a week
- Bonus: you were the customer once. You ran agents in production and got burned

Tags: Engineering