Reasonable AI
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ForwardDeployedEngineer(FDE)
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“Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) at Reasonable AI. Skills: Applied AI research, Formal verification, Software engineering. Lead discovery in customer meetings. Own technical scoping”
Industry & Context.
Diagnose system fit; Identify capability gaps; Elicit specifications
Customer and team travel, In-person frequently
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
High-accountability engineering culture, Systems languages like Rust, JVM languages like Java/Kotlin, Cloud-native languages like Go, Formal methods or verification domain expertise, Specification-aware programming understanding, Proof assistants and verification tools understanding, Experience building relationships with senior engineers, Genuine interest in commercial side, Comfort with early-stage work
Nice to Have
Contribute to formal verification projects, Contribute to program synthesis projects, Run production back-end services, Accountable for distributed systems
What You'll Do.
Lead discovery in customer meetings
Own technical scoping
Bring research depth to conversations
Diagnose system fit for verification
Design initial customer solutions
Translate observations into deployments
Identify capability gaps
Feed signals into R&D
Elicit real specifications
Build trust with partners
Translate between partners and frontier
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Customer meetings; Design partner whiteboard; Cross-functional teams
Communication Scope
Customer meetings; Partner conversations
Full Job Description
[Reasonable](https://reasonable.io/) is the applied AI research company building formal verification for post-human software development. Correctness guarantees for software developed by humans and machines are no longer impractical or prohibitively expensive. Code generated by AI can be provably correct, rather than plausibly functional. At Reasonable, we are doing the research, training the models, and developing the products required to make this a reality. Achieving this creates a new paradigm for high accountability software development and unlocks the full potential of AI for professional engineers. We’re a compact, talent-dense technical team, with deep domain expertise in machine learning, formal verification and mathematical models of program semantics. Join us to develop the next frontier of formal reasoning and software engineering. Proof follows function. **The Role** As a founding Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), you will help shape how we solve problems for our partners, and set the patterns that will be inherited by the customer-facing hires that follow. Working alongside Ferenc and Craig, you’ll be at a design partner’s whiteboard as much as you’re in our codebase. The role is just as much discovery and translation as it is development and deployment. Your work will be instrumental in figuring out how formal verification should fit into the rapidly evolving stack and workflow of the most sophisticated engineering teams on the planet. **You Will** * **Lead discovery** by joining early customer meetings, owning technical scoping, and bringing research depth to prospective partner conversations * **Diagnose** which of a prospective partner’s systems are fit for verification and proof of concept (POC) work. POCs must solve real and replicable problems. * **Design POCs** and initial customer solutions with us, translating observations and requirements into tightly scoped deployments a small team can deliver rapidly * **Identify capability gaps** which rec
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