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Job Description Job Description Forward Deployed Engineer — Strala Location: San Francisco, CA (Onsite)Compensation: $150,000 – $225,000 base + competitive equityVisa Sponsorship: None availableExperience Level: 2+ yearsEmployment Type: Full-TimeAbout Strala Strala is an AI-native insurtech company rebuilding insurance claims infrastructure through agentic AI automation. The platform automates claims workflows including intake, fraud detection, adjudication support, and settlement operations.Company traction:Multi-seven-figure ARR in under one year50% month-over-month growthSeries A-stage trajectory with two institutional funding rounds completedBacked by Founders Fund with investor exposure to early OpenAI, Cognition, and Scale AITeam pedigree includes Harvard, Berkeley, Oxford, Optiver, AMD, Palantir, ICPC, and NeurIPS research backgrounds.About the Role This is a true technical forward-deployed engineering role with direct product ownership. This is not implementation support. This is not solutions architecture. This is not post-sales integration. This is a hybrid engineering, client deployment, and product feedback role — and the FDE function is still being built with currently only one FDE on the team.Core ownership includes:End-to-end multimodal AI deployment and production agent deployment for enterprise customersDirect senior stakeholder ownership, technical scoping, and go-live executionAPI integrations, client systems integration, agent design and iterationPrompt engineering, model integration, and rapid AI-assisted prototypingCustomer-specific feature scoping and product evolution feedbackClient relationship management and internal FDE playbook creationScaling the FDE function from the ground upRequirements 2+ years combining technical depth and client ownershipTarget backgrounds: forward deployed engineering, agent engineering, growth engineering, founding engineer, or founderTechnical: Python, APIs, cloud platforms, modern AI/ML tooling, LLM familiarity, prompt engineering, agentic AI concepts, AI-assisted coding workflowsStrong executive client communication — ability to translate technical systems into business valueFounder-mode ownership, high urgency, fast execution, and problem ownershipWillingness to jump between coding and client calls in the same daySF onsite commitmentNice to Have Prior FDE experience from elite AI companies — Palantir, Anthropic, OpenAI, Scale, CognitionAgent engineering or growth engineering backgroundBackend + solutions hybrid backgroundICPC or NeurIPS pedigreeFounder backgroundThis Role Is NOT For Pure solutions engineers without backend depthPure backend engineers without client ownershipCareer FDEs looking for mature structureIntegration-only profilesBenefits Top quartile salary and equityFull relocation supportAll meals coveredProductivity toolingOpportunity to shape company directionInterview Process Application reviewCultural fit (multiple interviewers)First technical interviewsSecond technical interviewsFinal strategy/ops interviewsOfferLogistics Role is fully onsite in San Francisco — please only apply if you can commit to thisNo visa sponsorship availableShortlisted candidates will be contacted by David Joseph & Co. , the recruiting partner managing this search on behalf of Strala.