Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, AI Agents
CoreWeave is hiring a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, AI Agents in Sunnyvale and San Francisco, United States. It pays $182k-$242k a year and Level rates it ; you can apply on CoreWeave.
Level's read on this job
- Builds AI ●●●● is how Level rates this forward deployed engineer role: the job is building AI systems.
- Pay on this posting starts in line with the typical forward deployed engineer posting on Level.
- The posting mentions LangChain, LlamaIndex and Hugging Face among its tools and skills.
- Level classes it as a senior role.
- CoreWeave has 307 other open roles on Level.
AI in this role
Embed inside customer AI teams to design, prototype, and productionize AI agents using developer toolkits.
About the role
As a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) you will work directly with our customers, embedding inside their AI teams to help them build and deploy successful AI agents with the W&B Weave developer toolkit.
This is a hands-on, customer-facing engineering role—ideal for someone who thrives in high-impact environments, enjoys solving open-ended technical problems, and wants to shape how the world’s leading organizations build with AI.
Responsibilities
- Embed inside customer AI engineering teams to design, prototype, and productionize AI agents using W&B Weave.
- Act as a trusted technical advisor, helping customers make architectural decisions and best practices for agentic workflows.
- Develop reference implementations, demos, and example projects that showcase effective use of W&B Weave.
- Gather and relay feedback from the field to influence the W&B Weave product roadmap and improve the AI developer experience.
- Conduct technical workshops, deep dives, and enablement sessions to accelerate customer adoption.
- Troubleshoot and resolve technical challenges in customer environments.
Qualifications
- 5+ years of professional software engineering or hands-on coding experience
- Strong engineering background with experience in Python and modern ML/AI systems frameworks (e.g., PyTorch, TensorFlow, Hugging Face, LangChain, LlamaIndex, etc.).
- A minimum of a bachelor's degree (or international equivalent), in Computer Science or related field, is required.
- Hands-on experience with LLMs, AI agents, or orchestration frameworks.
- Ability to work directly with customers in technical consulting or solution engineering roles.
- Excellent communication skills: able to explain complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and business stakeholders.
- Comfortable working in fast-paced, ambiguous environments where creativity and problem-solving are key.
- Experience in one or more of the following is a plus:
- Building production ML/AI systems.
- Working with vector databases, retrieval-augmented generation, or reinforcement learning.
- Prior forward deployed / field engineering / solutions architect roles.
The base salary range for this role is $182,000 to $242,000. The starting salary will be determined based on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and market location. We strive for both market alignment and internal equity when determining compensation. In addition to base salary, our total rewards package includes a discretionary bonus, equity awards, and a comprehensive benefits program (all based on eligibility).
What We Offer
The range we’ve posted represents the typical compensation range for this role. To determine actual compensation, we review the market rate for each candidate which can include a variety of factors. These include qualifications, experience, interview performance, and location.
In addition to a competitive salary, we offer a variety of benefits to support your needs. The benefits below reflect our US-based offerings for full-time employees; for roles in other locations, benefits vary and are shared during the hiring process. These include:
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance - 100% paid for by CoreWeave
- Company-paid Life Insurance
- Voluntary supplemental life insurance
- Short and long-term disability insurance
- Flexible Spending Account
- Health Savings Account
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Ability to Participate in Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP)
- Mental Wellness Benefits through Spring Health
- Family-Forming support provided by Carrot
- Paid Parental Leave
- Flexible, full-service childcare support with Kinside
- 401(k) with a generous employer match
- Flexible PTO
- Catered lunch each day in our office and data center locations
- A casual work environment
- A work culture focused on innovative disruption
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Equal Opportunity & Accommodations
CoreWeave is an equal opportunity employer, committed to fostering an inclusive and supportive workplace. All qualified applicants and candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, or genetic information.
As part of this commitment and consistent with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), CoreWeave will ensure that qualified applicants and candidates with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations for the hiring process, unless such accommodation would cause an undue hardship. If reasonable accommodation is needed, please contact: careers@coreweave.com.
Export Control Compliance
This position requires access to export controlled information. To conform to U.S. Government export regulations applicable to that information, applicant must either be (A) a U.S. person, defined as a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful permanent resident (green card holder), (iii) refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, or (iv) asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158, (B) eligible to access the export controlled information without a required export authorization, or (C) eligible and reasonably likely to obtain the required export authorization from the applicable U.S. government agency. CoreWeave may, for legitimate business reasons, decline to pursue any export licensing process.
How we rate this
Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, AI Agents at CoreWeave rates 85 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Builds AI (AI Level 4 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.
Builds AI. The job is building AI systems.
- ●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
- ●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
- ●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
- ●○○○ 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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Pay
- This job starts at
- $182k
- Typical forward deployed engineer job
- $180k
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Questions you could be asked
- How would you design a retrieval step so the model answers from real data instead of guessing?
- How do you decide when an AI agent can act on its own versus asking for approval first?
- Tell me about a project where software engineering was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where machine learning was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where customer facing was part of your work. What did you do?
Adapt your resume
- List these exact terms on your resume: RAG, AI agents, Software Engineering, Machine learning, and Customer Facing. 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.
- Lead with what you built, trained or shipped. This role is judged on the AI system itself, not the tools around it.
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