# Founding Forward Deployed Engineer at Lumari

- Company: Lumari (YC P25)
- What the company does: AI Digital Workers for Supply Chain. Backed by Y Combinator.
- Company website: https://www.lumari.ai/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: San Francisco, CA, US
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $110K to $170K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-04-26
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/lumari/jobs/y8Reyou-founding-forward-deployed-engineer
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/lumari-founding-forward-deployed-engineer/

## About the role

Proactive ownership mindset : you fix problems as you see them and can independently turn requirements into production-ready code Design sense and attention to detail : you care about how interfaces look and feel, not just how they work

## What they're looking for

- Work alongside the founders on our biggest customer engagements, shaping how we build for and with them
- Understand customers’ workflows and success criteria and turn their needs into technical implementations
- Ship full-stack features end-to-end, from backend services and data models to frontend interfaces
- Iterate quickly based on customer feedback, and turn ambiguous problems into shipped product
- Own features from idea to production: build, launch, monitor, and improve
- Build AI agents from the ground up: designing orchestration logic, tool calling, prompting, and decision-making flows that work reliably in production environments

Tags: Engineering