# Forward Deployed Engineer

**Company:** [Baselayer](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/baselayer)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Solutions Architecture
**Salary:** $145k – $220k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** TypeScript, Python, REST APIs, Webhooks, OAuth, jwt, mcp, llm tool-calling, Agent Frameworks, verifiable credentials, dids, http message signatures, identity infrastructure, API Design
**Posted:** 2026-08-03

> Build partner integrations, verification APIs, MCP experiences, demos, and reference implementations for Baselayer’s agentic commerce products. The role requires 5+ years of production software experience, strong TypeScript or Python skills, deep API integration expertise, and direct customer or partner engagement.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Ship partner integrations of agentic economy products from the first technical call through production.
- Build prototypes, demos, and reference implementations for partner meetings, communities, and conferences, often on short notice.
- Own developer- and agent-facing quality, including API ergonomics, documentation, sample repositories, sandbox environments, integration guides, and technical posts.
- Get the MCP server listed, featured, and performing in connection hubs, directories, and marketplaces for agent builders.
- Optimize the agent-facing experience, including tool descriptions, response design, and error handling.
- Participate in agent-builder communities, hackathons, working groups, and open-source repositories as a builder.
- Serve as the engineering voice in partner calls and translate partner constraints into clear specifications for the core platform team.
- Feed field learnings back into the product roadmap alongside product and general management leadership.

## Requirements
- 5+ years shipping production software.
- Strong TypeScript and/or Python skills.
- Deep API design and integration experience, including REST, webhooks, and OAuth/JWT authentication flows.
- Direct experience working with customers or partners.
- Hands-on experience with the modern agent stack, including MCP, LLM tool-calling, and agent frameworks.
- Ability to take a demo from idea to working implementation in days and an integration to production in weeks.
- Ability to thrive in ambiguity, with startup pace and end-to-end ownership.

## Nice-to-haves
- Experience building with MCP, LLM tool-calling, or agent frameworks.
- Familiarity with verifiable credential standards such as SD-JWT-VC, DIDs, and HTTP message signatures, and/or identity infrastructure.
- Payments or fintech background.
- Prior forward-deployed, solutions engineering, or founding engineer experience.
- An existing presence in AI and agent-builder communities.

## Compensation and Benefits
- Salary range: **$145,000–$220,000 plus equity**.
- Flexible PTO.
- 100% company-paid health, dental, and vision premiums.
- 401(k) with company match.
- HSA contributions on applicable plans.
- $250 annual gym stipend.

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