# Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) at Raindrop

- Company: Raindrop
- What the company does: Trace every run. Auto-fix silent failures. Simulate before shipping. Raindrop helps you detect agent issues and prevent them from happening. Backed by Lightspeed and Y Combinator.
- Company website: https://www.raindrop.ai/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: San Francisco
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-08-13
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/raindrop/2ae60d74-621b-4bbd-b92b-2f64a2979cc9
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/raindrop-forward-deployed-engineer-fde/

## About the role

The current status quo is sifting through millions of logs and trying to debug flaky evals that just aren't matching real world results. Evals are like unit tests, they confirm your model got specific test cases right. But in the real world agents call thousands of tools, run for hours, and encounter millions of unpredictable actions.

## What they're looking for

- Top 0.1% communicator who would rather be in front of customers than heads-down all day
- Strong engineer who can read a codebase, debug production systems, and fix customer bugs hands-on
- Interest in AI products + tools (ideally experience building these or an avid user)
- Growth mindset
- Willing to do whatever it takes to solve a problem
- Excited to work closely with leadership and own high-impact work from day one

Tags: Engineering