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title: 'Forward Deployed Engineer at OpenHands'
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# Forward Deployed Engineer at OpenHands

- **Company:** OpenHands
- **Location:** Remote
- **Compensation:** $175k–$240k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-08-13
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-13
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/openhands/80bfc775-3197-407d-8742-ccb5ddae8709

## Job description

## Who We Are

We're building OpenHands, an open-source AI platform that helps engineering teams accelerate development, automate workflows, and bring AI-assisted coding into production environments. As a Forward-Deployed Engineer (Post Sales), you'll work directly with customers to deploy OpenHands, build integrations, and shape how AI-assisted development is used. You'll operate as both a hands-on engineer and a trusted technical advisor, turning real-world usage into product improvements that help developers everywhere move faster.

## What You’ll Do

- Own technical success for your accounts from first proof-of-concept through production deployment, including hands-on installation of OpenHands Enterprise on customer-managed infrastructure
- Build custom integrations that unblock adoption; agent-identity and OAuth delegation, connections to systems like GitHub and Atlassian, and MCP-based connectors
- Develop agentic use cases with customers (CVE remediation, code review, Issue-to-PR, SDLC automation), including building skills and packaging them as plugins
- Run enablement that scales adoption: onboarding, office hours, demos, and on-site workshops
- Debug across services, containers, Kubernetes, networking, and CI/CD to unblock customers quickly
- Surface patterns and gaps from the field to inform Product and Engineering, and produce reusable artifacts such as demos, docs, and playbooks

## What You Bring

- 5+ years professional experience as a software engineer or in a deeply customer-embedded technical role
- Strong proficiency in at least one backend or systems language (Python preferred), with comfort building operational tooling and debugging production systems
- Hands-on experience deploying and operating containerized workloads in customer or self-hosted environments — Kubernetes and Helm specifically, plus the networking, certificates, and secrets management that real on-prem installs require
- Experience working directly with customers in production or high-stakes environments, with the judgment to navigate ambiguity, communicate complex tradeoffs clearly, and support teams adopting new tools
- Familiarity with modern developer workflows: CI/CD, Git-based collaboration, and developer tooling
- Bonus: experience with identity and access patterns (OAuth, OIDC, SSO), MCP, agent or LLM tooling, or OEM/platform integrations; background in field engineering, pre-sales, or developer relations; familiarity with AI developer tools (OpenHands, Claude Code, Copilot, Cursor)

## Why Join OpenHands

- Competitive compensation: $175,000 - $240,000 base salary, plus equity and bonus
- Remote-first with flexible hours (core hours 12–4pm ET | 4–8pm UTC)
- Fully covered U.S. health, vision, and dental insurance
- Unmetered PTO + holidays
- Collaborate with world-class engineers, product builders, and AI researchers
- Real influence over product direction as you represent the voice of customers running OpenHands in production
- A culture built on kindness, candor, autonomy, and learning

We Welcome All Applicants We’re committed to building an inclusive, supportive environment where everyone can thrive. We celebrate diversity and do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other protected characteristic. If you’re passionate about building great developer tools and excited about the future of AI-powered software development, we’d love to hear from you.

## About OpenHands

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: OpenHands is an open-source AI agent platform for software development that enables autonomous agents to plan, write, and apply code changes end-to-end across codebases.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed/Series A – $5M total funding)
- **Headquarters**: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- **Founded**: 2024
- **Founders**: Robert Brennan, Xingyao Wang, Graham Neubig

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: AI-powered software development tools; agentic automation for engineering teams.
- **Target customers**: B2B – platform teams, enterprises with large or legacy codebases, internal developer platform teams, and organizations building AI-powered tooling.
- **Mission**: “Building the open standard for autonomous software development” and “making the world’s best AI software development agents, for everyone, in the open.”

## Products & Services
- **OpenHands SDK**: A composable Python library containing all agentic technology – the engine that powers agents. Can run locally or scale to thousands of agents in the cloud.
- **OpenHands Cloud**: A fully managed version with deeper integrations (GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, Slack, Jira, Linear), multi-user support, RBAC, collaboration features, usage reporting, and budgeting enforcement.
- **OpenHands Enterprise**: Self-hosted in the customer’s own VPC via Kubernetes, with a source-available license, extended support, and access to the research team.
- **Agent Canvas**: A browser-based UI and backend server for running agents and automations; can be self-hosted or connected to OpenHands Cloud.
- **OpenHands CLI & Local GUI**: Terminal-based and legacy Docker-based interfaces for running agents locally.
- **Large Codebase SDK**: Specialized tooling for mapping dependencies and orchestrating safe parallel changes across large, complex, or legacy codebases.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total funding $5M (Seed round led by Menlo Ventures on 2024-09-05; Series A led by Madrona with 6 investors)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Menlo Ventures (lead Seed), Madrona (lead Series A)
- **Growth Signals**: 65K+ GitHub stars; headcount grew 140% YoY to 26 employees; operates across 7 countries (US, France, UAE, Sweden, Uruguay, Switzerland, Vietnam); recently launched an “Agent Control Plane” and expanded integrations.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Open source & model-agnostic**: Users can inspect, fork, and customize agents; agents work with any LLM (Claude, GPT, etc.).
- **Self-hosted / private cloud**: Code never leaves the customer’s environment – critical for enterprise security and compliance.
- **End-to-end task execution**: Unlike Copilot or ChatGPT, OpenHands agents plan, write, and apply changes across the entire codebase, not just suggest code.
- **Large codebase handling**: The Large Codebase SDK maps dependencies and orchestrates parallel agent work without conflicts.
- **Enterprise governance**: SSO, RBAC, audit logs, sandboxed execution, cost guardrails – built for scale and control.

## Strategic Focus
- Establish OpenHands as the open standard for autonomous software development.
- Scale agent usage with full governance (visibility, access controls, audit trails, budget limits).
- Enable teams to move “from assistants to systems” – turning ad‑hoc prompts into repeatable, observable workflows.
- Deepen integrations with developer tools (GitHub, GitLab, Slack, PagerDuty, CI/CD) and expand enterprise adoption.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Early‑stage startup (26 people) with a strong open‑source ethos and a thriving community. High autonomy and impact – every contribution directly shapes the platform.
- **Remote/Hybrid/Office**: Distributed team across the US and multiple countries (France, UAE, Sweden, etc.) – likely remote‑first with some in‑person collaboration in Boston.
- **Notable perks**: Work on cutting‑edge AI agents; contribute to a widely‑adopted open‑source project (65K+ GitHub stars); direct access to founders and research team; flexible deployment options mean engineers can run agents on their own machines.
- **Engineering culture**: Emphasis on careful experimentation, real‑world development processes, and building transparent, auditable systems.

## Sources
1. [openhands.dev](https://www.openhands.dev/)
2. [LinkedIn – OpenHands](https://www.linkedin.com/company/openhands-ai)
3. [Introducing All Hands AI (blog)](https://openhands.dev/blog/introducing-all-hands-ai)
4. [OpenHands Documentation](https://docs.openhands.dev/overview/introduction)
5. [OpenHands Careers Page](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/OpenHands)

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