# Forward Deployed Engineer

**Company:** [Reducto](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/reducto)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Solutions Architecture
**Salary:** $150k – $300k/yr
**Experience:** 3+ years
**Skills:** Python, Kubernetes, Bash, Streamlit, Ml/Ai
**Posted:** 2025-11-25

> Deploys and tunes AI document processing systems in enterprise environments, builds deployment tools, creates diagnostics, and collaborates with customers and engineers. Requires 3-6 years production deployment experience, Python, Kubernetes proficiency, and high agency.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Deploying and maintaining on-prem and VPC instances of Reducto’s systems, often with complex enterprise constraints (e.g. air-gapped, custom auth, strict latency targets).
- Building tooling to make deployments faster, more reliable, and easier to debug.
- Creating diagnostics, dashboards, and eval harnesses to measure performance and track regressions across environments.
- Writing crisp internal documentation and playbooks for repeatable deployments.
- Collaborating closely with customers, support, and core engineers to identify high-impact improvements.
- Acting as a feedback loop to the product and infra teams—surfacing usability gaps, unmet needs, and opportunities to deepen customer value.
- Working directly with the founders and customers to shape the product direction and engineering strategy.

## Requirements
- 3 to 6 years of experience deploying software in production settings—ideally with enterprise or regulated customers.
- Excellent with **Python** and comfortable with **Bash** and infrastructure.
- Very comfortable with **Kubernetes**.
- High agency, ships fast, quantitative approach to building products, full development lifecycle experience.

## Nice-to-Haves
- Prior experience founding a company or building products at early stages.
- Keep up with the latest developments in **ML/AI**.

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