About the role
What we're looking for
We are seeking a highly agentic and client-facing engineer with experience in a technical, customer-centric role. You should be comfortable interfacing directly with clients, building relationships, and writing code on the fly to deploy our AI systems. The ideal candidate has a strong technical foundation, excellent communication skills, and a track record of owning projects end-to-end, preferably at an early-stage, VC-backed startup.
What you'll do
- You will individually deploy multi-modal, agentic AI systems into production with major business impact. You own client deployments end-to-end, from scoping through go-live, acting as the primary point of contact for senior client stakeholders.
- Build and manage client relationships: understand challenges, align priorities, and become the trusted partner executives rely on to scale their AI adoption.
- Design, build, and evolve AI agents that deliver optimal claims outcomes, including prompt engineering, model integration, and blitz prototyping using AI-assisted coding tools.
- Work with applied AI on a daily basis. You scope and develop new features that allow our customers to scale while consistently improving claims results.
- Help integrate our product into client environments, working hands-on with their tech teams on APIs and systems.
- Coordinate with our core platform team to ensure smooth delivery and improve the product with actionable insights.
- Capture and share best practices in internal playbooks to scale Forward Deployed Engineering.
About Strala
We are rebuilding the foundation of the world's largest industry - a platform that's fundamentally disrupting the $300B+ insurance market. We’re building an agentic system for computer vision over crash footage and photos, telematics and sensor data interpretation, policy knowledge retrieval, OCR and LLM reasoning models for structured information extraction from documents/calls, etc.
In less than a year we reached high seven-figure ARR, are growing 50% MoM and are processing thousands of claims for the world's leading companies (think Uber, Amazon). We have raised $50M+ from Founders Fund and Bessemer Venture Partners, led by the partners who were early in OpenAI, Cursor, Cognition, and Ramp. We have incredibly strong product-market fit and more demand than we can currently service.
Our small team consists of engineers from Optiver, DRW, ScaleAI, and Palantir, AI researchers publishing at ICML/ICCV/NeurIPS, and several ICPC and STEM Olympiad competitors. Every engineer here has an outsized impact and total ownership over our core systems and automations, with tons of room to grow.
Required skills
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Job details
Salary
$165,000 - $250,000
Location
San Francisco, United States
Experience
3+ years
Funding
Total raised
$54M
Last stage
Series A
Investors
What happens next.
No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.
Confirm the fit
A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.
I pitch you to the company
I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.
A meeting lands on your calendar
If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.