Hiring: AI Product Engineer / Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) Company: Carnaby Fox Location: San Francisco, CA (also Austin, TX / London, UK; Remote) Job Posted Time: 2026-09-14 17:59:20 Employment Type: Full-time Target Skills & Keywords: AI Product Engineering, Forward Deployed Engineering, Voice AI, AI Agents, Product Engineering, Enterprise Technology, TypeScript, Python, APIs, Frontend, Backend, Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, Solutions Architecture, Customer-Facing Products, Prototyping, POCs Experience: - 0–3 years of experience in Product Engineering, Forward Deployed Engineering, Solutions Architecture, or as an Entrepreneur/Founder - Experience as a Product Engineer, FDE, Solutions Architect, Founder, or highly entrepreneurial engineer - Has already shipped a product, project, or side project used by real customers/users - Experience working in a startup, founder-led environment, or high-velocity engineering team Required Skills: - Strong ability to build and ship customer-facing products end-to-end - Proficiency in TypeScript and Python - Comfortable working across APIs, data, frontend, and backend - Daily hands-on experience with AI-native development tools such as Cursor, Claude Code, or Codex - Strong product and design sense - Ability to take a vague customer request and turn it into a crisp, shippable feature - Comfortable interacting directly with technical stakeholders, particularly engineers - Strong ownership and written communication - Work directly with enterprise customers and technical stakeholders to understand their challenges - Translate customer feedback and ambiguous requirements into clear, practical product solutions - Own features from discovery → prototype → development → launch → iteration - Support customer POCs and post-sales technical engagements - Turn individual customer problems into reusable platform capabilities - Rapidly prototype solutions and productize what works - Approximately 50/50 customer interaction and hands-on coding role Qualifications: - Degree from one of the specified target universities, including institutions such as Stanford, MIT, Berkeley, Harvard, CMU, IITs, Waterloo, UPenn, Columbia, Cornell, Cambridge, Oxford, etc. - Visa Sponsorship: Open to visa transfers (e.g. OPT, H1B transfers) - Preferred Locations: North America-based; SF or Austin preferred - Travel: 10–20% travel expected for customer visits, conferences, and team offsites - Strong signals: Founder or entrepreneurial experience Compensation: - Base Salary: $140,000 – $180,000 + Competitive Equity Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don’t miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!