--- title: 'Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) at Blaxel' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/forward-deployed-engineer-fde-blaxel-san-francisco-p92dbfhmwam9' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-06' --- # Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) at Blaxel - **Company:** Blaxel - **Location:** San Francisco, CA - **Compensation:** $150k–$250k - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** onsite - **Posted:** 2026-05-14 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-06 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/blaxel/4acea42a-589d-42b1-949e-d4ec4b8907a2 ## Job description We're looking for a world-class Forward Deployed Engineer to help strategic customers deploy Blaxel in real production environments. You will work directly with customer teams, founders, and Blaxel's Product & Engineering teams to turn ambiguous requirements into working systems: integrations, deployment plans, debugging workflows, runbooks, examples, and product fixes. This is a hands-on engineering role with direct customer ownership. Some days you'll be onsite at customer’s office mapping a customer's architecture and success criteria. Other days you'll be deep in code debugging an agent deployment, agent-LLM networking behavior, or sandbox runtime issues. The best person for this role can build trust in a room, then earn it again by shipping the solution. ## WHAT YOU'LL DO Working side by side with our customers and interacting closely with Blaxel’s Product & Engineering teams, you’ll own the technical path from customer issues to successful deployment. - Lead end-to-end technical discovery & implementation for strategic customer deployments. - Engage directly with customer stakeholders (from engineering teams to executives) to understand their issues, architecture constraints and success criteria. - Build on Blaxel platform APIs, SDKs, sandboxes, CI/CD systems, observability tools, as well as customer infrastructure. - Ensure customer success and retention by improving their workloads reliability, performance, cost, and operational visibility. - Bring customer learnings back into product and engineering with enough technical detail to shape roadmap decisions. ## WHO YOU ARE - Customer-obsessed builder: You enjoy working directly with users and shipping solutions that solve real problems while ensuring retained success for the Blaxel product. - Strong engineer: You can write production code, navigate unfamiliar codebases quickly, and make pragmatic technical tradeoffs. - Systems generalist: You are comfortable moving between APIs, cloud infrastructure, containers, networking, observability, and application logic. - Fast in ambiguity: You can turn incomplete context into a concrete plan, then iterate as you learn. - Excellent communicator: You can explain tradeoffs clearly, align stakeholders, and keep momentum during tense debugging sessions. - High ownership: You don't stop at diagnosis. You drive problems through implementation, validation, documentation, and follow-up. ## SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE - Strong proficiency in TypeScript/Node or Python. Experience with Go, Rust, or systems-level engineering is a plus. - Experience building and shipping production software, ideally in backend, infrastructure, cloud, developer platform, or AI product environments. - Comfort with APIs, Docker, Kubernetes or similar orchestration, AWS/GCP/Azure, Linux, networking fundamentals, and CI/CD. - Useful context includes agent frameworks, sandboxes, LLM applications, model-provider routing, eval workflows, vector databases, workflow orchestration, SSO/RBAC, security reviews, private networking, or compliance constraints. - Prior forward-deployed, solutions, platform, customer engineering, founding engineer, or high-context consulting experience is helpful but not required. ## ABOUT BLAXEL Blaxel is AWS for AI agents. We're building a new kind of cloud optimized specifically for the demands of agentic AI, powered by a purpose-built serverless compute engine delivering sub-25ms cold starts. We process billions of AI agent requests and power the infrastructure behind coding agents and background AI systems for top AI startups. Traditional clouds weren't built for agentic workloads. We are. We recently raised a $7.3M seed round led by First Round Capital. ## About Blaxel ## Core Business - **Primary industry/industries**: Infrastructure for autonomous agents / Cloud computing for AI workloads - **Target customers**: B2B – AI startups, scaleups, and enterprises building autonomous agents, coding agents, and background AI services - **Mission or purpose statement**: “Infrastructure for autonomous agents” – enabling AI companies to ship agents instead of reinventing infrastructure. ## Products & Services - **Blaxel Platform**: A session-first, stateful runtime that provides isolated microVMs (sandboxes) for AI agents. Key features include: - **Compute**: Persistent sandboxes that scale to zero after 1s of inactivity and resume in under 25ms with full memory state. - **Networking**: Static IPs, outbound control (firewalling), proxy routing for secrets, and a model gateway co-located with agents. - **Storage**: Agent Drive (distributed filesystem for multi-agent collaboration), Volumes (durable mounts), and in-memory root filesystem with zero data retention. - **Security & Compliance**: SOC 2, HIPAA, ISO 27001 certified; individual microVMs per workload; data wiped on sandbox destruction. - **Scale**: Supports up to 50,000+ sandboxes and 512 TB of volume storage. - **SDK**: TypeScript-first SDK (Python at parity), Docker images, MCP servers, and batch job orchestration. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed - **Key Metric**: Total funding – $7.3M (seed round, led by First Round Capital) - **Notable Investors/Partners**: First Round Capital (lead), Y Combinator (backed via batch P25/Spring 2025) - **Growth Signals**: Processing billions of requests; customers include Webflow and HumanBehavior; team size of 8; YC batch Spring 2025; actively hiring for engineering roles. ## Competitive Advantages - Ultra-low latency (25ms cold-start resume) with persistent state across restarts and redeploys. - Enterprise-grade security compliance (SOC 2, HIPAA, ISO 27001) out of the box. - Perpetual sandboxes that stay on standby indefinitely without cold-start orchestration. - Built-in networking primitives (static IPs, proxy routing, model gateway) reduce agent infrastructure complexity. - TypeScript-first SDK and seamless MCP server support. ## Strategic Focus - Continue to build the foundational infrastructure layer for autonomous agents, moving beyond ephemeral execution to stateful, scalable, and secure agent runtimes. - Expand enterprise adoption and compliance certifications while maintaining developer experience and low latency. ## Why Work Here - **Culture**: Small, high-impact team (8 people) working on cutting-edge AI infrastructure. Backed by top-tier investors (First Round Capital, Y Combinator). - **Remote/Hybrid/Office**: Located in San Francisco; likely in-office or hybrid (not explicitly stated, but YC jobs list San Francisco as location). - **Notable Perks/Engineering Culture**: Ownership of critical infrastructure components; exposure to high-scale agent workloads; salary range for roles like CEO & Co-Founder listed at $175K – $250K (indicating competitive compensation for early team members). Roles include Site Reliability Engineer, Forward Deployed Engineer, and Fullstack Design Engineer. ## Sources 1. [blaxel.ai](https://blaxel.ai/) 2. [Y Combinator – Blaxel Jobs](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/blaxel/jobs) 3. [Y Combinator – Blaxel Company Page](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/blaxel) 4. [LinkedIn – Blaxel](https://www.linkedin.com/company/blaxel-ai) 5. 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