# Forward Deployed Engineer at Openhands

- Company: Openhands
- What the company does: Meet OpenHands, the open-source, model-agnostic platform for cloud coding agents. Automate real engineering work securely and transparently. Build faster with full control. Backed by Madrona and Menlo.
- Company website: https://openhands.dev/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Mid level
- Location: Remote
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $175K to $240K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-08-13
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/openhands/80bfc775-3197-407d-8742-ccb5ddae8709
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/openhands-forward-deployed-engineer/

## About the role

Own technical success for your accounts from first proof-of-concept through production deployment, including hands-on installation of OpenHands Enterprise on customer-managed infrastructure Build custom integrations that unblock adoption; agent-identity and OAuth delegation, connections to systems like GitHub and Atlassian, and MCP-based connectors

## What they're looking for

- 5+ years professional experience as a software engineer or in a deeply customer-embedded technical role
- Strong proficiency in at least one backend or systems language (Python preferred), with comfort building operational tooling and debugging production systems
- Hands-on experience deploying and operating containerized workloads in customer or self-hosted environments — Kubernetes and Helm specifically, plus the networking, certificates, and secrets management that real on-prem installs require
- Experience working directly with customers in production or high-stakes environments, with the judgment to navigate ambiguity, communicate complex tradeoffs clearly, and support teams adopting new tools
- Familiarity with modern developer workflows: CI/CD, Git-based collaboration, and developer tooling

Tags: Engineering