# Forward Deployed Engineer at Sixtyfour

- Company: Sixtyfour (YC P25)
- What the company does: Intelligence Infrastructure on People and Entities. Backed by Y Combinator.
- Company website: https://www.sixtyfour.ai/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: San Francisco, CA, US
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $140K to $225K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-21
- Apply by: 2026-11-05
- Apply: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/sixtyfour/jobs/FthUabl-forward-deployed-engineer
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/sixtyfour-forward-deployed-engineer/

## About the role

Forward Deployed Engineers sit between our customers and our codebase. Some days you'll be in a working session with a compliance team learning how they actually run an alert to disposition; other days you'll be in our repos shipping the pipeline that makes that workflow ten times faster.

## What they're looking for

- 3–7 years of professional software engineering experience
- Strong fundamentals: you can drop into an unfamiliar codebase, debug a production incident, design a clean API, and reason clearly about data models and failure modes
- Strong backend development and API design experience, proficiency in Python and JavaScript/TypeScript
- Experience running systems in production with observability, scaling, and on-call ownership
- Real comfort in front of customers: you can run a technical discovery conversation, push back on a stakeholder without damaging the relationship, and turn a vague business problem into a scoped technical one
- Judgment about what to generalize and what to leave bespoke, and the discipline to advocate for the former

Tags: Engineering