Forward Deployed Engineer

San Francisco, United States

Full-time

About the role

We're looking for a Forward-Deployed Engineer who is an outstanding engineer and a genuinely charismatic customer partner. This is an account-ownership, customer-facing engineering role: you own your accounts end to end, with no dedicated success manager, account lead, or hand-off layer standing between you and the customer. You are the single point of contact who builds the relationship, diagnoses the problem, ships the solution, and helps build, maintain, and expand the account, all at once. You will apply creativity and problem-solving to help customers implement complex business automations via our suite of internal libraries, tools, and products. You'll act as a trusted expert and be a human-in-the-loop partner to our agentic automation engine.

This role is inherently cross-functional — you’ll often be the bridge between product, engineering, and customer teams. It is as important to be comfortable with sales conversations and identifying upsell opportunities as it is to understand how we can expand Automat’s suite of AI-powered product offerings to improve velocity and scale.

Travel is not required for this role, but is possible.

What you’ll do

Build upon our autonomous agent solutions to tailor automation solutions to specific, customer-centric workflows
Configure, prompt, and orchestrate AI agents on Automat Studio so they can navigate complex, and often legacy, enterprise software platforms to achieve our customers' automation goals.
Help manage and support the AI agents powering Workforce deployments for your customers, making sure they run reliably and evolve as customer needs change.
Think creatively about how to align automation strategies with the needs of our customers, while driving long-term innovation and resilience to the entire Automat product offering
Wear multiple hats; one day, you will prototype a new stealth browsing technique, and the next, optimize a pipeline for intelligent document extractions

What drives you

Methodically working through complex technical challenges, no matter how detailed or demanding, until the solution emerges
Supporting customer pain points and expanding out-of-the-box product capabilities
Collaborating in teams of both technical and non-technical members
Finding creative, deterministic solutions to complex and unstable technical puzzles
Bringing focus, urgency, and follow-through when deadlines get tight, treating crunch moments as a challenge to rise to rather than a burden to endure

About Automat, Inc.

Automat is redefining enterprise automation through AI agents that learn by watching. At Automat, we believe that teaching AI agents to do work for you should be as easy as showing an expert colleague the workflow you'd like to get done.

We help enterprise businesses create and scale reliable end-to-end automations that are 10x faster and lower cost than existing legacy tools like traditional RPA (Robotic Process Automation). Our technology helps some of the world's largest companies—including Fortune 500 insurers, major healthcare providers, and innovative fintech companies—streamline their operations.

In practice, we're redefining Enterprise AI Agents, RPA, and Intelligent Document Processing (IDP), developing the necessary tooling and infrastructure to bring these to real-world customers and applications. We compete with legacy incumbents like UiPath and Automation Anywhere, offering a generative AI platform that empowers enterprises to automate complex processes faster, smarter, and at significantly lower cost.

Backed by Y Combinator, Khosla Ventures, Initialized Capital, and Felicis Ventures, we're scaling quickly and building a world-class team out of our San Francisco office in the Mission District.