Meticulous

AI

ForwardDeployedEngineer

$200–400k San Francisco, California, United States FULL TIME Remote Friendly
Market Sentiment
HIGH DEMAND

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The Brief

“Forward Deployed Engineer at Meticulous. Skills: Forward Deployed Engineer, customer success, technical excellence. Architect and deploy at scale. Evolve the core product to make the customer successful”

What You'll Achieve.

make Meticulous transformational for them; make the customer successful; move the product forward itself; unlock the next level of automating software development; make each deployment smoother and faster than the last; create the leverage that lets the team scale; own real customer outcomes end-to-end

Industry & Context.

AI
Problems you'll solve

crack this; solve novel problems

Eligibility Requirements

Approximately 25% travel to customer sites, Expect to spend your first ~2 months in London embedded with the core engineering team, on-site

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

Exceptional engineering skills, Highly agentic, communication skills, Willingness to travel

Nice to Have

Senior IC at a top tech company ready to leave the bureaucracy behind and own real customer outcomes end-to-end, Ex-founder or technical founding engineer who wants to keep the founder-energy but plug into a company with product-market fit and a clear path to scale, Forward Deployed Engineer at OpenAI, Scale, or Anthropic looking for an earlier-stage version of the same work, Solutions architect or staff engineer who wants more deep engineering and less PowerPoint

What You'll Do.

Architect and deploy at scale

Evolve the core product to make the customer successful

Own the technical relationship and lead the pilot

Guide the direction of the product based on what you learn in the field

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

pair with their engineers; pair with core engineering team; operate as a pod per account

Communication Scope

explain complex technical concepts to both engineers and executives

Process & Methodology

driving scoping, integration, rollout

Full Job Description

WHAT WE DO We're building the last piece of the puzzle to help companies unlock AI code generation - the part that makes it actually safe to ship. AI is enabling engineers to write code faster than ever before. But software review and testing hasn't caught up. Engineering leaders are drowning in long review cycles and more bugs than ever. The bottleneck isn't writing code anymore - it's everything that comes after it. We spent 3 years building the foundational technology to crack this - hard to replicate, and several years ahead of anything else on the market. Since then, we've grown 5x year-on-year and now work with some of the most AI-driven engineering teams in the world: Notion, ElevenLabs, Dropbox, Discord, LaunchDarkly, Wiz, CoreWeave, Wealthsimple, and more. Companies like Dropbox, Wiz, and Notion often pay more for Meticulous than any other software product in their stack, and spontaneously refer us to others. We're backed by the same investors behind Twilio, Twitch, Intercom, and PagerDuty. Individual investors include the founders of Vercel, Datadog, Segment, and Dropbox, the CTO of GitHub, the CPO of Adobe, the head of Engineering at Cursor, and many more. Our mission is to radically accelerate the pace of software development by empowering every engineer to ship at the speed their agents write code. This is an opportunity to join a company in hypergrowth as we scale from millions of annual recurring revenue to $100M ARR. If this excites you, come help us build it! THE ROLE THE FIRST FORWARD DEPLOYED ENGINEER IN SAN FRANCISCO As Meticulous's first Forward Deployed Engineer in San Francisco, you'll establish our US FDE presence and help define how this function operates from the ground up. The FDE team is still small and the playbook is still being written - you'll be instrumental in shaping the processes, tooling, and best practices that the function runs on as it scales. You'll work directly with engineering leaders at the world's most AI-driven companie

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