AI Product Engineer / Forward Deployed Engineer

Summary

Raydar is building a trust platform for voice AI agents, covering simulation, adversarial red-teaming, and production observability. The AI Product Engineer / Forward Deployed Engineer will work with enterprise customers to identify product gaps and own end-to-end feature development across frontend and backend systems.

Responsibilities

• Work directly with enterprise engineers to understand product gaps, debug live issues, and define the right solution
• Own features from discovery through prototype, implementation, launch, and iteration across the frontend and backend
• Support proofs of concept and post-sales customer success as a high-agency technical partner
• Turn one-off customer requests into reusable platform capabilities
• Build across TypeScript, Python, React, Next.js, Node.js, APIs, data systems, and user interfaces
• Use tools such as Cursor, Claude Code, and Codex as a core part of your daily product-development workflow
• Communicate decisions, progress, and next steps clearly while shipping at a fast cadence
• Travel for customer visits, conferences, and team offsites as needed
• $140K-$180K base salary, with flexibility for exceptional candidates
• Competitive equity
• Remote-first work for candidates based in North America, with San Francisco or Austin preferred. London may also be considered
• Approximately 10% to 20% travel for customer visits, conferences, and team offsites
• H-1B and other existing visa transfers may be considered, including OPT. New sponsorship from scratch is not available
• Zero to three years of experience as a product engineer, forward-deployed engineer, solutions architect, founder, or similarly hands-on builder
• A degree from one of the target universities identified for this search, including schools such as Stanford, MIT, UC Berkeley, Harvard, Carnegie Mellon, the IITs, Waterloo, the University of Pennsylvania, Columbia, Cornell, Cambridge, and Oxford
• Evidence that you have shipped a product, project, or side project to real users or customers
• Experience in a startup, founder-led company, or high-velocity team with end-to-end ownership
• Daily fluency with AI coding tools such as Cursor, Claude Code, or Codex, with a concrete example of how they changed what you built or how quickly you shipped
• Proficiency in TypeScript and Python, with the ability to work across APIs, data, and UI to deliver a complete product slice
• Strong product and design judgment when turning vague customer asks into crisp, shippable features
• Comfort working directly with technical enterprise stakeholders, including live demos, customer questions, and debugging
• High ownership, fast execution, and clear written communication
• Comfort with approximately 10% to 20% travel each year
• Founder or entrepreneurial experience, including a startup, YC application, or side project with meaningful traction
• Experience supporting enterprise customers or working in a forward-deployed engineering model
• Experience with voice AI, LiveKit, Pipecat, Vapi, Retell AI, ElevenLabs, Temporal, AWS, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, Redis, Terraform, OpenTelemetry, or Figma

Skills

• Travel for customer visits, conferences, and team offsites as needed
• Remote-first work for candidates based in North America, with San Francisco or Austin preferred. London may also be considered
• H-1B and other existing visa transfers may be considered, including OPT. New sponsorship from scratch is not available
• Zero to three years of experience as a product engineer, forward-deployed engineer, solutions architect, founder, or similarly hands-on builder
• A degree from one of the target universities identified for this search, including schools such as Stanford, MIT, UC Berkeley, Harvard, Carnegie Mellon, the IITs, Waterloo, the University of Pennsylvania, Columbia, Cornell, Cambridge, and Oxford
• Evidence that you have shipped a product, project, or side project to real users or customers
• Experience in a startup, founder-led company, or high-velocity team with end-to-end ownership
• Daily fluency with AI coding tools such as Cursor, Claude Code, or Codex, with a concrete example of how they changed what you built or how quickly you shipped
• Proficiency in TypeScript and Python, with the ability to work across APIs, data, and UI to deliver a complete product slice
• Strong product and design judgment when turning vague customer asks into crisp, shippable features
• Comfort working directly with technical enterprise stakeholders, including live demos, customer questions, and debugging
• High ownership, fast execution, and clear written communication
• Comfort with approximately 10% to 20% travel each year
• Founder or entrepreneurial experience, including a startup, YC application, or side project with meaningful traction
• Experience supporting enterprise customers or working in a forward-deployed engineering model
• Experience with voice AI, LiveKit, Pipecat, Vapi, Retell AI, ElevenLabs, Temporal, AWS, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, Redis, Terraform, OpenTelemetry, or Figma

Qualifications

Must Haves

• Travel for customer visits, conferences, and team offsites as needed
• Remote-first work for candidates based in North America, with San Francisco or Austin preferred. London may also be considered
• H-1B and other existing visa transfers may be considered, including OPT. New sponsorship from scratch is not available
• Zero to three years of experience as a product engineer, forward-deployed engineer, solutions architect, founder, or similarly hands-on builder
• A degree from one of the target universities identified for this search, including schools such as Stanford, MIT, UC Berkeley, Harvard, Carnegie Mellon, the IITs, Waterloo, the University of Pennsylvania, Columbia, Cornell, Cambridge, and Oxford
• Evidence that you have shipped a product, project, or side project to real users or customers
• Experience in a startup, founder-led company, or high-velocity team with end-to-end ownership
• Daily fluency with AI coding tools such as Cursor, Claude Code, or Codex, with a concrete example of how they changed what you built or how quickly you shipped
• Proficiency in TypeScript and Python, with the ability to work across APIs, data, and UI to deliver a complete product slice
• Strong product and design judgment when turning vague customer asks into crisp, shippable features
• Comfort working directly with technical enterprise stakeholders, including live demos, customer questions, and debugging
• High ownership, fast execution, and clear written communication
• Comfort with approximately 10% to 20% travel each year

Nice to Haves

• Founder or entrepreneurial experience, including a startup, YC application, or side project with meaningful traction
• Experience supporting enterprise customers or working in a forward-deployed engineering model
• Experience with voice AI, LiveKit, Pipecat, Vapi, Retell AI, ElevenLabs, Temporal, AWS, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, Redis, Terraform, OpenTelemetry, or Figma

Benefits

• H-1B and other existing visa transfers may be considered, including OPT. New sponsorship from scratch is not available.
• Competitive equity.
• Remote-first work for candidates based in North America, with San Francisco or Austin preferred. London may also be considered.
• H-1B and other existing visa transfers may be considered, including OPT.