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# Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) at Emergent Labs 

- **Company:** Emergent Labs 
- **Location:** Bengaluru, India
- **Posted:** 2026-10-05
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-17
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/emergentlabsinc/jobs/4433173009

## Job description

Emergent builds autonomous coding agents that replace traditional software development by generating, testing, and deploying production applications directly from plain-language intent. Our systems run in production at global scale and are used to build millions of real applications.

Since our public launch, we've crossed $130M in Annualised Revenue and grown to over 10M users across 190+ countries, who have built 12M+ applications on Emergent. We're backed by Creaegis, Khosla Ventures, SoftBank, Lightspeed, Together, Y Combinator, Google, Claypond and Sentinel Global.

We're solving the hard part of AI-driven software creation: correctness, reliability, security, and scale in real production systems. The team is built by repeat founders, Olympiad medalists, IIT & IIM alumni, and leaders from Google, Amazon, and Dropbox.

The Role: We're hiring a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) for the Wingman team, with a backend engineering background and experience building and deploying AI agents. Your key responsibility is developing and deploying numerous AI agents for the Wingman team, working closely with customers and turning real-world challenges into scalable solutions.

- Level: Senior (4+ years experience) — SDE2/SDE3/Senior SDE profile, startup background preferred
- Location: Bangalore (Work From Office, 5 days/week)
- Headcount: 3
- Target start: 30 October 2026

What You'll Do:

- Develop and deploy numerous AI agents for the Wingman team
- Work directly with customers to understand technical and business challenges and turn them into scalable solutions
- Own projects end-to-end, from requirements to deployment and iteration
- Debug complex issues across applications, integrations, APIs, and workflows

What We're Looking For:

- Strong backend engineering background
- Proven experience building and deploying AI agents in production
- Startup background strongly preferred
- Strong ownership mindset with the ability to work independently in ambiguous situations

Interview Process:

- 2 technical rounds
- 1 managerial round
- 1 consultant round

Benefits and Perks:

- Daily Meals: Lunch and Dinner provided
- Family Insurance: 5 Lakhs worth of coverage for you and your family
- Unlimited Paid Time Off
- Flexible Working Hours

Let's build the future of software together.

## About Emergent Labs 

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Emergent is an AI-powered development platform that transforms plain-language descriptions into production-ready software applications, replacing traditional coding with autonomous coding agents.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series B)
- **Headquarters**: Pleasanton, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2024 (estimated; earliest funding round March 2025) [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/emergentlabs)
- **Founders**: Mukund Jha (CEO) and Madhav Jha (CTO) – twin brothers [ycombinator.com](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/emergent)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: AI-powered software development / Autonomous coding agents
- **Target customers**: B2B (teams, enterprises) and B2C (individual builders, power users); from beginners to experienced developers
- **Mission**: Democratize product development by letting anyone turn ideas into monetizable software without writing code

## Products & Services
- **[Emergent Platform](https://emergent.sh/)**: AI app builder that converts natural language descriptions into fully functional applications. Handles architecture, coding, testing, and deployment autonomously. Generates production-ready code that users own. Pricing starts at $17/month (individual), $167/month (power users), $250/month (teams), with a free tier and enterprise options.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available
- **Key Metric**: $100M ARR achieved in 8 months (fastest-growing startup globally) [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/emergentlabs); Total funding $100.125M [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/emergentlabs)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Khosla Ventures, SoftBank Vision Fund, Google (AI Futures Fund), Lightspeed India, Prosus Ventures, Together Fund, Y Combinator [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/emergentlabs)
- **Growth Signals**: 6M+ users across 190+ countries; 6M+ applications built; headcount grew 1,713% YoY to 212 employees; 37 active job postings [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/emergentlabs)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Natural language interface** – no drag-and-drop or coding required; works through conversation
- **Full code ownership** – users own all generated code, can download, modify, or host anywhere
- **Autonomous end-to-end development** – agents plan, build, test, and debug apps independently
- **Production scale** – systems run at global scale, handling millions of real applications

## Strategic Focus
- Scaling reliability, security, and correctness of AI-driven software creation
- Expanding enterprise capabilities and custom AI agents
- Continuing rapid hiring (especially in engineering, AI, and growth roles) to support hypergrowth

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: "Own it" – full product ownership from day one; direct founder mentorship; weekly releases with millions of users [emergent.sh/careers](https://emergent.sh/careers)
- **Remote/Hybrid**: Offices in Bangalore, India and San Francisco/Pleasanton, USA; open to remote for some roles (details per job posting)
- **Perks**: Competitive salary + equity; unlimited PTO; full insurance coverage; meal coverage; modern tech stack
- **Engineering culture**: Elite team of Google, Amazon, IIT/IIM alumni; tackle ambitious projects with the latest tools and technologies; high impact at global scale
- **Growth**: Fastest-growing startup in the world; massive career acceleration opportunity

## Sources
1. [emergent.sh/careers](https://emergent.sh/careers)
2. [emergent.sh](https://emergent.sh/)
3. [job-boards.greenhouse.io/emergentlabsinc](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/emergentlabsinc)
4. [linkedin.com/company/emergentlabs](https://www.linkedin.com/company/emergentlabs)
5. [ycombinator.com/companies/emergent](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/emergent)

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