# Forward-Deployed Engineer at Prox

- Company: Prox (YC F25)
- What the company does: AI product specialists for equipment manufacturers. Backed by Y Combinator.
- Company website: https://useprox.com
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: San Francisco, CA
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $160K to $190K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-07-06
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/prox/jobs/VKpZh1L-forward-deployed-engineer
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/prox-forward-deployed-engineer/

## About the role

Customer Deployments. Own deployments from kickoff to successful rollout. Learn the customer’s workflows, configure Prox for the account, test critical use cases, train users, monitor adoption, and make sure the deployment does not quietly die after launch.

## What they're looking for

- ⊹ strong engineer – you can build, debug, ship, and reason about systems without needing a perfect spec
- ⊹ customer-facing without being fake – you can talk to a VP, a dealer principal, a support rep, or a technician and make them feel like the product is in good hands
- ⊹ operationally intense – you can manage a rollout with many moving pieces and keep pressure on every loose end until it is resolved
- ⊹ good product taste – you can tell the difference between “technically works” and “a real user would actually trust this”
- ⊹ comfortable with travel – you should expect meaningful customer travel and enjoy being close to the field
- ⊹ high agency – if the rollout is blocked, you find the customer, the logs, the engineer, the missing workflow, the broken query, the failed session, and the next action

Tags: Engineering