The San Francisco Compute Company
Technology
ForwardDeployedEngineer-Full-Stack
Neural analysis suggests this role is
optimal for Mid+ candidates.
“Forward Deployed Engineer - Full-Stack at The San Francisco Compute Company”
Industry & Context.
Traveling to meet customers
Full Job Description
We're building the company which will de-risk the largest infrastructure build-out in history. When people finance GPU clusters, the datacenters housing them, and the infrastructure powering them, they need "offtake" - meaning someone has signed a contract to lease the cluster for a period of time before its even built. Financing a GPU cluster is inherently risky, since margins are thin and volumes are huge. Lenders don't want to take on the risk that cluster developers can't repay their loan, and cluster developers really don't want to risk not selling their cluster. As a result, risk is offloaded to the customer using fixed-price long-term contracts. If you don't mitigate this customer risk, there's a bubble. This isn't SaaS anymore - application layer companies sign multi-year contracts for computer and inference, but sell to customers on monthly subscriptions. If you mess up a purchase, it's game over: a minor shift in your revenue growth rate might mean the difference between profit or bankruptcy. But what if companies could exit their contract by selling it back to the market? Otherwise, as AI scales, compute only becomes available to folks who can effectively take on that risk. A 2-person startup in a San Francisco Victorian can't realistically sign a 5-year take or pay contract on $100m supercomputers. But they may be able to buy the month of liquidity that someone else sold back. So that's what we make: a liquid market for GPU offtake. THE ROLE The Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) team works with SFC’s largest customers and partnerships to maximally scale them on our platform by bridging the gap between what our core product offers and what the customer needs. In this role, you will work independently to unlock large enterprise deals by building creative, well-scoped full-stack solutions for our largest and most important customers. We work with the leading labs, startups and enterprises of the AI industry. WHAT YOU'LL DO - Be directly responsible for the
Applying for this Forward Deployed Engineer - Full-Stack role?
Most applicants get filtered before a human reads their resume. See if yours makes the cut.
How to Apply on Ashby
- Ashby is a fast modern ATS — most applications take under 3 minutes.
- The resume parser is strong; verify parsed experience dates and job titles.
- Custom screening questions are often scored algorithmically — answer completely.
- Location field affects geo-based screening; use your actual metro area.
ANONYMOUS · UNFILTERED
What do employees actually say about The San Francisco Compute Company?
Real rants from real employees. Read before you apply.