# Forward Deployed Engineer at Risely AI

- Company: Risely AI
- What the company does: The University OS: every student, course, dollar, and donor on one record, Risely's agents drafting in every office, and staff approving every move. Backed by Y Combinator.
- Company website: https://www.risely.ai/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-05-11
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.gem.com/risely-ai/am9icG9zdDryZrOoIHxUMFcTmWCxKDwP
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/risely-ai-forward-deployed-engineer/

## About the role

You own the customer from the moment a contract is signed to the day the product is working inside their institution. Every layer of the stack that has to come together for that to happen is yours.

## What they're looking for

- Strong across the stack. TypeScript, Python, React, Node, SQL. You debug a data pipeline, ship a frontend tweak, and design an API in the same day
- Fluent with data. Real institutional data is messy, partial, and inconsistent. You map it, clean it, reconcile it, and turn it into something the agents can use
- A shipper. A working version this week beats a perfect version next month. You move at the pace of the customer conversation and close loops fast
- Customer-fluent. You translate institutional pain into code, and code back into something the customer trusts
- AI-native. You orchestrate Claude Code agents alongside your own work. You have a real point of view on where agents add leverage and where humans still have to drive