Staff Forward Deployed Engineer
$199k - $325k • Remote • New York City • FullTime
Posted 8d ago
Job Location
New York City
Tech Stack
Remote Work Policy
Fully remote
Employment Type
FullTime
Categories
AI Engineer
About the job
We are seeking an experienced Staff Forward Deployed Engineer to join our team and help build the future of AI-powered software creation. This is a hands-on software engineering role where you will design, write, and ship production code, working directly with customers to translate ambitious ideas into real products. You will be a founding member of our Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) function, helping to define its engineering standards, ways of working, and collaboration with product teams. This is a unique opportunity to scale a new discipline from scratch, solve novel AI problems, and shape a product and team while remaining deeply hands-on.
Responsibilities
- Work directly with customers to understand their workflows, needs, and problems.
- Translate ambiguous requirements into clear technical designs and working production systems.
- Design, code, test, deploy, and operate solutions across Lovable’s frontend and backend.
- Translate insights from real usage into foundational platform improvements.
- Own projects end-to-end, from discovery and architecture through shipping and iteration.
- Debug complex issues across application, infrastructure, and AI-system boundaries.
- Shape how Forward Deployed Engineering operates at Lovable, including its engineering standards, rituals, and playbooks.
- Contribute to core product strategy, technical decisions, and cultural foundations.
Requirements
- 8+ years of hands-on experience building and shipping production software.
- Extensive software engineering skills across the application stack with a track record of writing maintainable, well-tested code and owning what you build in production.
- Strong architectural thinking and familiarity with distributed systems.
- Ability to prototype rapidly and turn successful experiments into production-quality solutions.
- Exceptional product intuition and ability to work directly with users.
- Comfort operating with high ambiguity, agency, and end-to-end ownership.
- Experience working on agentic AI systems or building with LLMs.
- Experience leading zero-to-one product development.
- Experience in a founding or early startup environment.