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LangChain

Deployed Engineer (Early Career- SF)

LangChain is hiring a Deployed Engineer (Early Career- SF) in San Francisco, United States. It pays $160k-$185k a year and Level rates it ; you can apply on LangChain.

Level's read on this job

  • Level rates this role Works on AI ●●●○: the daily work is on AI products, without building the model.
  • Tools and skills the posting cites include LangGraph, Clay and Langsmith.
  • Level classifies it as a junior role.
  • Level lists 103 other open roles at LangChain.

AI in this role

Partner with customers to co-architect and deploy production-ready AI agents using LangChain technologies.

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About Us

At LangChain, our mission is to make intelligent agents ubiquitous. We build the foundation for agent engineering in the real world, helping developers move from prototypes to production-ready AI agents that teams can rely on. We began as widely adopted open-source tools and have grown to also offer a platform for building, evaluating, deploying, and operating agents at scale.

With $125M raised at Series B from IVP, Sequoia, Benchmark, CapitalG, and Sapphire Ventures, we’re at a stage where we’re continuing to develop new products, growth is accelerating, and all team members have meaningful impact on what we build and how we work together. LangChain is a place where your contributions can shape how this technology shows up in the real world.

Today, our platform includes LangSmith (Observability, Evaluation, Deployment, Fleet, and Sandboxes), our open source frameworks (LangChain, LangGraph, and Deep Agents), and the newly launched LangSmith Engine for autonomous agent improvement. We have 100M+ monthly open source downloads, 6,000+ active LangSmith customers, and 5 of the Fortune 10 use LangSmith in production (+ 35% of the Fortune 500 overall), including teams at Klarna, Clay, Coinbase, Workday, Lyft, Cloudflare, Harvey, Rippling, Vanta, LinkedIn, Monday.com, Nvidia, and Bridgewater.

About the Team

This team works directly with companies building and running AI agents in production, helping turn ideas and prototypes into systems teams can rely on.

This is a hands-on, highly technical team that partners closely with customer engineers across the full lifecycle, from pre-sales evaluations to post-deployment advisory work. The focus is on achieving the technical win, co-designing agent architectures, and helping customers operate agents reliably at scale using the LangChain suite.

Deployed Engineers sit at the intersection of engineering, product, and go-to-market, shaping how LangChain is adopted in the field and feeding real-world insights back into the platform.

About the Role

You'll work on some of the hardest problems in applied AI alongside customers. You will help customers adopt innovative new practices in agentic engineering, and ensure they ship reliable agents into production, quickly. The feedback loop is fast, the impact is visible, and your work directly shapes how AI agents are built in the real world.

What You’ll Do
  • Co-architect and co-build production AI agents with customer engineering teams and customers

  • Own the technical win in pre-sales by designing POCs, answering deep technical questions, and guiding evaluations

  • Help customers deploy and operate agent-based applications such as conversational agents, research agents, and multi-step workflows

  • Advise customers post-sale on architecture, best practices, and roadmap-level decisions

  • Build and run tailored demos, trainings, and workshops for developer audiences

  • Surface field feedback and contribute reusable patterns, cookbooks, and example code that scale across customers

  • Interface with LangChain's engineering, product and design (EPD) team to share field perspectives and guide product direction based on customer priorities

  • Occasionally contribute code upstream when it meaningfully improves customer outcomes

  • This role requires 40% travel to customer sites to support deployment, onboarding, and ongoing technical engagement

What You’ll Bring
  • 1-3 years of experience in software engineering, customer engineering, solutions engineering, founding engineering, or a similarly technical role, ideally at a startup or high-growth company

  • Strong Python, JavaScript and systems fundamentals

  • Hands-on experience building and deploying agent-based or LLM-powered applications beyond simple API calls, including multi-step workflows, orchestration, and failure handling

  • Strong technical communication skills and builder credibility; Can explain technical tradeoffs clearly, translate complex AI concepts into actionable insights, and build trust with technical customers and engineering teams

  • Excited to work directly with customers during POCs, architecture reviews, and technical evaluations

  • Take responsibility for outcomes, not just recommendations

  • Have a bias toward action and enjoy figuring things out as you go

  • Are excited about shipping AI agents in production

Nice to Have’s:

  • You’ve deployed AI agents in production, especially using LangChain, LangGraph, or similar frameworks

  • Worked with LLM evaluation, observability, or guardrails

  • Have experience with cloud environments (AWS, GCP, Azure), containers, and Kubernetes concepts

  • Have shipped and operated production software and are comfortable owning systems under real-world constraints

Compensation

Annual OTE range: $160,000-185,000 USD

Compensation Philosophy:

We offer competitive compensation that includes base salary, variable compensation for relevant roles, meaningful equity, benefits, and perks.

We are hiring for this role across a range of scope, and the compensation band reflects that. Your offer depends on what we learn about your impact, craft, leadership, and communication during the interview process. We will tell you early where you’re tracking and talk comp with you before offer stage. Team members in the EU, UK, and APAC receive locally competitive benefits aligned with regional norms and regulations.

Benefits

Benefits include medical, dental, and vision coverage, flexible vacation, a 401(k) plan, meals on in-office days in the US and more.

How we rate this

Deployed Engineer (Early Career- SF) at LangChain rates 75 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Works on AI (AI Level 3 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.

Classification

Works on AI. The daily work is on AI products, without building the model.

  1. ●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
  2. ●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
  3. ●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
  4. ●○○○ Little AI0 to 39

Levels come from how often the tools, models and workflows of the role are named in the posting itself. Read the description and count the AI tools, models and workflows it names.

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Skills and AI tools this role asks for

AI agentsAI EvaluationAgent ArchitectureCustomer EngineeringProduction AILangGraphClayLangsmith

Questions you could be asked

  1. How do you decide when an AI agent can act on its own versus asking for approval first?
  2. How do you decide that one model's output is better than another's for a given task?
  3. Tell me about a project where agent architecture was part of your work. What did you do?
  4. Tell me about a project where customer engineering was part of your work. What did you do?
  5. Tell me about a project where production ai was part of your work. What did you do?

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  • List these exact terms on your resume: AI agents, AI Evaluation, Agent Architecture, Customer Engineering, and Production AI. An applicant tracking system matches the wording, not the idea.
  • Attach one line of real, concrete experience to at least one of them. A tool named with nothing behind it rarely survives a human read.
  • Show where AI is part of your daily process, not a one-off project. This role expects it to be a running habit.

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