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Senior/Staff Software Engineer, Forward Deployed

fal · San Francisco

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Infrastructureonsitesenior$180k–$250k
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At a glance

Highlights

  • Help enterprise customers deploy and scale AI workloads to production fast.
  • Act as technical owner bridging customers, product, and infrastructure teams.
  • Turn repeat customer pain points into reusable platform features.

What they offer

  • Health, dental, and vision insurance (US)
  • Regular team events and offsites
  • Learning and growth opportunities

Ideal candidate

A high-ownership, customer-facing engineer who thrives in ambiguity and loves solving real-world problems. You enjoy owning enterprise outcomes end-to-end and turning customer pain into product growth.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of engineering background with proficiency in TypeScript, Python, Postgres and Next.js
  • Experience in a customer-facing technical role such as Solutions Engineer or Forward Deployed Engineer
  • Comfortable jumping into ambiguous customer problems and finding solutions fast
  • Ability to understand complex systems and communicate clearly with technical and non-technical stakeholders
  • Experience working across APIs, infrastructure and cloud environments
  • High ownership mentality with end-to-end responsibility for customer success
  • Experience with serverless platforms, infra products or developer platforms

Lab profile

About fal

Generative media infrastructure platform for high-performance inference, orchestration, and model access at scale.

What they build

  • Generative media platform
  • High-performance inference APIs
  • Model orchestration

Known for

  • High-performance inference at scale
  • Unified inference, orchestration and observability
  • Idea-to-production for developers and enterprises
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