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# Forward Deployed Engineer I/II at Giga

- **Company:** Giga
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Compensation:** $100k–$190k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-06-12
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-12
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/gigaml/ea4abfde-77d8-4a80-878b-c5132163c7f0

## Job description

## About Giga

Giga has recently raised a $61M Series A and is working with Fortune 500 customers to deploy the next generation of customer experience - real-time AI agents that can understand emotion, resolve issues instantly, and scale across the world's largest enterprises. Industry leaders like DoorDash trust Giga with their most complex support and operations workflows across voice, chat, and email, in high-stakes regulated environments where accuracy and compliance matter. We're at an exciting inflection point. While we've found real commercial success, our ambitions are larger: to become the go-to AI platform for all enterprise automation, powered by our voice superintelligence. The work affects millions of people every day, and our team has the autonomy to make true impact - with brilliant founders, a clear path forward, and the kind of momentum that defines generational companies. If being part of that resonates with you, we'd love to hear from you!

- [Voice AI startup Giga raises $61M Series A](https://fortune.com/2025/11/05/voice-ai-giga-raise-61-million-customer-service-series-a/)
- [DoorDash and Giga Partnership](https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7391576181009018883/)

More About the Role We're seeking an Agent Engineer to join our San Francisco team. You'll serve as a technical interface between Giga and our customers, building and deploying sophisticated solutions.

What You’ll Do:

- Assisting customer engagements from start to end: run discovery calls & demos, build/maintain world class agents, participate in customer calls, and serve as the primary PoC in a fast-paced environment.
- Own the full agent development life cycle: build and prototype quickly, set up CI/CD, monitor live usage, iterate to targets, debug live issues, communicate with customers, and document best practices to speed up future projects.
- Close the feedback loop with product & platform: capture unmet needs, prototype new features, contribute directly to the codebase, and collaborate with core teams to strengthen the platform for all customers.

Who You Are / Must-Haves:

- Know the basics: Understanding of React, Python, tool calls, APIs, etc.
- Interpersonal Acumen: Able to solve problems in a people-centric manner and communicate effectively, with experience/interest in customer-facing roles.
- Entrepreneurial: Preference for candidates with aspirations who want to be founders or leaders; ability to context switch constantly and rapidly; high bar for quality work.
- Gritty: Capable of working long productive hours, customer focused, very high attention to detail, and obsession to deliver high-quality work.
- Coachable: Be able to take in feedback and adapt at a quick pace.
- Experience: 1+ years of experience; computer science, analytics, or consultant background strongly preferred.

## Perks & Benefits

- Competitive base + bonus + equity
- Catered lunch daily
- Dinner stipend
- $500/month wellness & commuter benefit (gym, fitness classes, mental health)
- 401(k) plan
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage

--- Giga is an equal opportunity employer. We're committed to providing equal employment opportunities regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

## About Giga

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Giga builds enterprise AI voice agents that handle complex customer interactions with unmatched speed and scale, giving time back to humanity.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A, ~$61M raised in August 2025 led by Redpoint)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2023 (some sources list 2024; conflicting reports)
- **Founders**: Esha Dinne (CTO) and Varun Vummadi (Co-Founder)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Enterprise AI / Customer Support Automation / Software Development
- **Target customers**: B2B – large enterprises (e.g., DoorDash)
- **Mission**: “To save people time” – reprogram the world’s largest companies using AI, reaching every human on the planet.

## Products & Services
- **[AI Voice Agents]**: Enterprise-grade AI support agents that handle complex customer interactions with human-like intelligence, available as a SaaS platform or on-premise deployment.
- **[Guardrails]**: Built-in hallucination checks to ensure accuracy, with automatic fallback to human support when needed.
- **[Progressive Automation]**: Gradual automation of support workflows with performance metrics to identify automation opportunities.
- **[Insights]**: AI-powered analytics that detect customer churn drivers and highlight improvement areas.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total funding of **$64.7M** (Seed rounds totaling ~$3.7M, plus Series A of $61M in August 2025); estimated annual revenue of **$1M** (LinkedIn data)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Nexus Venture Partners (Seed lead), Eight Capital, Redpoint (Series A lead), Y Combinator (Summer 2023 batch)
- **Growth Signals**: Headcount grew **+537.5% YoY** to 50 employees; customer win with DoorDash; 40+ open positions across engineering, sales, and operations; LinkedIn followers grew **+411.7% YoY** to over 30,000.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Speed and scale**: Claims to ship faster than competitors while maintaining enterprise-grade reliability.
- **Human-like AI**: Pioneering voice AI that has “never been perfected in tech history” – a technically challenging moat.
- **Customer obsession**: Deep focus on solving real customer problems, evidenced by high-profile enterprise adoption.
- **On-premise option**: Offers secure on-premise LLM deployment for data-sensitive enterprises, a differentiator vs. pure cloud solutions.

## Strategic Focus
- Scale enterprise voice AI across the world’s largest companies.
- Continue rapid hiring (especially in engineering, sales, and strategy/operations).
- Push the boundaries of reasoning AI for voice interactions.
- Build a culture of speed, ownership, and craft excellence.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Values include customer obsession, operating with speed, deep care for craft, pushing boundaries, and taking ownership. Employees have high agency and are encouraged to experiment.
- **Work environment**: On-site in San Francisco (2 offices); typical time on-site is “none” but employees work from physical offices (hybrid flexibility implied).
- **Perks**: Full medical, dental, and vision coverage; Equinox gym membership; in-office ping-pong and pool table; on-demand snacks, coffee, and DoorDash credits; after-hours transportation reimbursement.
- **Engineering culture**: Strong emphasis on quality, detail, and shipping fast. 18 technical team members (36% of workforce). Open roles include Staff Backend Engineer, Senior Frontend Engineer, and AI/ML positions.
- **Growth opportunity**: High-growth startup (revenue and headcount scaling rapidly) with mission-driven work that impacts millions of customers.

## Sources
1. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/giga-gigamlcom) – Company overview, size, offices, culture
2. [giga.ai/careers](https://giga.ai/careers) – Official careers page, values, benefits, open roles
3. [crunchbase.com](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/giga-ml) – Funding, products, founders, headquarters
4. [ycombinator.com](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/giga) – YC profile, founding date, team size, latest news
5. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/gigaml) – Employee count, revenue, funding, growth metrics, open positions
6. [fortune.com](https://fortune.com) (referenced in YC news) – $61M raise and DoorDash partnership

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