Hiring: Staff Forward Deployed AI Engineer | San Diego, CA Company: Cadre AI Location: San Diego, CA Job Posted Time: 2026-09-17 00:20:12 Employment Type: Full-time / Hybrid Target Skills & Keywords : AWS, Azure, Data Pipeline, Design System, GCP, LLM, Python, RAG, REST, SaaS About the job Experience: •8+ years of software engineering experience, including 2+ years building LLM-powered systems (RAG, agents, structured extraction) that run in production, not just prototypes or internal experiments. Required Skills: •You report to the Head of Client Engineering, and you will occasionally join client calls to walk stakeholders through what we are building and why. You thrive here if leveling up the people around you energizes you as much as shipping the system yourself. •You are on the forefront of the technology, reimagining how Cadre does AI and delivering the high-value solutions that set us apart with clients. •Team Leadership and Mentorship •Manage and mentor two engineers on the San Diego team, owning their technical growth, code quality, and delivery. •Set the engineering bar through rigorous code review, pairing, and reference implementations the rest of the team builds on. •Serve as the first escalation point when engineers hit problems they cannot solve alone, teaching as you unblock. •Build the habits, patterns, and practices that make every engineer on the team measurably better quarter over quarter. •Drive architecture decisions across client builds: agentic workflows, RAG pipelines, document processing, and automation running in production. Compensation: •$165,000 - $200,000 / year 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!