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
What drives you
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.
Salary
$160,000 - $200,000
Location
San Francisco, United States
Experience
3+ years
Total raised
$20.0M
Last stage
Series A
Investors
No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.
A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.
I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.
If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.