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# Forward-Deployed Engineer at Artificial Intelligence Underwriting Company

- **Company:** Artificial Intelligence Underwriting Company
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Compensation:** $200k–$400k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-08-28
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-12
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/aiuc/84ae5a63-7a10-45ae-940f-3733ffaefd49

## Job description

## About AIUC

Our mission is to [underwrite superintelligence](https://underwriting-superintelligence.com/). We red-team, certify, and insure agents - working with AI category leaders like [ElevenLabs](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/matiii_a-first-for-the-industry-voice-agents-built-ugcPost-7429909704266653696-d7Ac?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAABaw0-sBnn0CU9SIZf2TfDwTKAAbDaEqsss), [Lovable](https://lovable.dev/blog/aiuc-1), [Harvey](https://www.harvey.ai/blog/the-first-certified-ai-agents-in-legal-harvey-achieves-aiuc-1), [UiPath](https://www.uipath.com/), and [Fin](https://fin.ai/customers).

Soon, agents will take on critical work in hospitals, banks and governments. This could create abundance - or go terribly wrong. History teaches us that standards and insurance are capitalism’s best tools for making risk legible and shaping incentives.

We’ve built the gold standard for agent security & reliability, [AIUC-1](https://www.aiuc-1.com/), with [100+ CISOs from the Fortune 1000](https://www.aiuc-1.com/consortium). Our team comes from [Anthropic](http://anthropic.com/), [McKinsey](http://mckinsey.com/), [METR](http://metr.org/), Palantir, Amazon - 50% are previous founders. We've raised $55m from Ribbit, First Harmonic, and Nat Friedman. Read more [here](https://open.spotify.com/episode/0FJEDsKalxJ1j4PjO7F4Cn?si=e14469cc5b1f496c), [here](https://whyyoushouldjoin.substack.com/p/aiuc), and [here](https://forrealai.substack.com/p/why-aiuc-is-one-of-the-most-agi-proof).

## The Role

Every AI company that comes to us wants the same thing: proof their agent is safe enough to sell to an enterprise. Getting there means running thousands of evaluations against their live system. We've now certified the category leaders in every major AI vertical: ElevenLabs (voice), Intercom (customer service), UiPath (workflow automation), Lovable (coding), and more we'll announce soon. No two of those systems look alike: each has its own authentication, its own interface, its own definition of what a failure even looks like. Before we can test any of it, someone has to sit with that customer, understand how their agent actually works, and get it wired into our evaluation system. We're hiring an engineer to own that work end to end. You'll have your own set of customers within your first weeks, paired with a commercial counterpart on each one. In this role, you will:

- Own the path from signed customer to delivered results - scoping what to test, working through their authentication and interfaces, and getting their agent running in our system
- Build the one-off version when a customer doesn't fit the product yet, and make it work anyway
- Deliver results directly to the customer and be the person they trust with the technical detail
- Make the call on whether a customer meets the AIUC-1 standard
- Work across the widest surface of any role here: our Delivery team, our core engineers, sales, the Standards team (shaping what goes into AIUC-1), and your customer's own engineering team
- Turn what you learn in the field into the product

That last one is why the role exists. We're building toward a product that runs evaluations end to end without an engineer in the loop. This is a high-agency role: you'll shape what we build next as much as you'll deliver what we've built. If you're planning to start a company one day, this is a front row seat. You'll work directly with our founders, with founders at the companies we certify, and alongside a team full of ex-founders.

## What we're looking for

The job in practice looks like reading someone's API docs, chasing credentials, building integrations into customers' systems and agents. Then evaluating whether those agents behave, and owning the failure modes the evals surface. The person who thrives here has done this work before. What drives them is trust and safety. To be successful, we think you have:

- 3-7 years of experience, likely as an early engineer at a startup where you ended up owning customers, or in an integration, solutions, or forward deployed role selling technical products to technical buyers. (Impact matters more than years.)
- Enough software engineering to build and debug an integration yourself, and the judgment to know when the scrappy version is the right answer
- Comfort owning a customer relationship directly – scoping the work, setting expectations, and delivering bad news early
- Customer obsession: their problem is your problem, and you see it through
- The discipline to turn what you see in the field into something reusable rather than solving the same problem twice

## Nice to have

- Experience founding or co-founding a company
- Experience with AI evaluations or red-teaming
- Executive presence with senior stakeholders

## Compensation & Perks

- Competitive salary and meaningful equity
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your dependents
- Visa sponsorship and relocation support to San Francisco, where applicable
- A team dedicated to doing the best work of their lives

## Our Values

Strong Back: High standards, keep our promises, work hard Fast Feet: Experiment, cut scope, take delight in pace Eyes Up: Feel the AGI across our strategy, teams, and day-to-day work Open Heart: Say the scary thing, create connection, make room for emotions

## About Artificial Intelligence Underwriting Company

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: AIUC builds the confidence infrastructure—standards, audits, and insurance—to certify and insure AI agents, enabling enterprise adoption.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: Not publicly available (likely 2024 based on funding timeline)
- **Founders**: Rune Kvist (CEO), Rajiv Dattani, Brandon Kent Wang (CTO)

## Core Business
- Primary industry/industries: AI risk & insurance, AI standards & certification, enterprise AI trust infrastructure
- Target customers: AI agent companies (B2B) and their enterprise customers (B2B, Enterprise)
- Mission or purpose statement: "Building the trust infrastructure for AI agents" and "Underwrite superintelligence" [aiuc.com](https://aiuc.com/)

## Products & Services
- **AIUC-1 Standard**: The first comprehensive standard for AI agent safety, covering data & privacy, security, safety, reliability, accountability, and societal risks. Companies certify against this standard to earn enterprise confidence. [aiuc.com/product](https://aiuc.com/product)
- **Insurance for AI Agents**: Backed by the world’s most trusted insurers, covering AI-specific risks up to $50M in losses. Protects AI companies’ enterprise customers financially if an AI agent fails. [aiuc.com/product](https://aiuc.com/product)
- **Gap Analysis & Technical Testing**: A risk assessment service providing a full overview of an AI agent’s safety, security, and reliability posture, with eval test results available within 24 hours. [aiuc.com/product](https://aiuc.com/product)
- **Audit Support**: Supports companies through the AIUC-1 certification journey to meet the gold standard. [aiuc.com/product](https://aiuc.com/product)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding: $15M (Seed round)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Seed round led by Nat Friedman. Investors include Emergence, Terrain, an Anthropic co-founder, and former Chief Information Security Officers at Google Cloud and MongoDB. Customers/partners include Ada (AI customer service leader) and Intercom. [aiuc.com/team](https://aiuc.com/team)
- **Growth Signals**: Headcount grew 700% YoY (from ~2 to 16 employees). Monthly growth of 14.3%. Published research paper "Underwriting Superintelligence." Has active job postings for Founding Recruiter and Member of Technical Staff. [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/aiunderwriting)

## Competitive Advantages
- **First-mover in AI agent insurance**: Building a new category—"confidence infrastructure"—that combines certification and insurance specifically for AI agents.
- **Deep domain expertise**: Founders and team have experience at Anthropic, McKinsey insurance, METR, and Center for AI Safety, bringing together AI risk and insurance knowledge. [aiuc.com/team](https://aiuc.com/team)
- **Proprietary standard (AIUC-1)**: A comprehensive, technically rigorous standard that goes far beyond typical enterprise requirements (e.g., ISO 42001), covering jailbreaks, prompt injections, data leakage, and hallucinations.
- **Backed by top-tier insurers**: Insurance policies are backed by "the world’s most trusted insurers," unlocked by their underwriting. [aiuc.com/product](https://aiuc.com/product)
- **Strong enterprise traction**: Already working with major players like Ada (which enabled a top social media platform) and Intercom, turning security from a blocker into a differentiator. [aiuc.com/product](https://aiuc.com/product)

## Strategic Focus
- **Scale the standard**: Grow AIUC-1 as the de facto industry standard for AI agent certification.
- **Expand insurance coverage**: Increase policy limits and coverage scope as AI agents become more capable and deployed in higher-stakes applications.
- **Accelerate enterprise adoption**: Remove the "procurement blocker" for AI agents by providing the confidence infrastructure enterprises need.
- **Talent acquisition**: Currently

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