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# Wonderful - Forward Deployed Engineer (CDMX) at Silver.dev

- **Company:** Silver.dev
- **Location:** Mexico
- **Compensation:** $110k–$160k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-07-23
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-07
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/silver/3591873f-80ac-4575-b572-8f9e2281f1b1

## Job description

Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE)

This position requires to be based in CDMX - Mexico city

## ABOUT Wonderful

Wonderful https://www.wonderful.ai/ enables enterprises to build, test, deploy, and monitor AI agents for their most complex needs, serving customers and employees seamlessly across voice, chat, email, and back-office systems in any language or cultural context.

## ROLE OVERVIEW

As a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) at Wonderful, you’ll solve high-impact, real-world problems alongside enterprise customers and own work from first principles through production outcomes.

You’ll work directly with customers to understand critical workflows, design AI-driven solutions, and deploy agents that operate reliably in production. You’ll own projects end-to-end from problem definition and system design to launch and iteration - and be accountable for real business impact.

This is a hands on-generalist role for engineers who enjoy navigating ambiguity, learning quickly, and working across systems while partnering with enterprises as they become AI-driven organizations.

## WHAT YOU’LL DO

- Partner with customers to understand operational challenges and success criteria
- Translate open-ended problems into clear technical designs and implementations
- Build AI agents that integrate with customer systems and perform real tasks
- Own deployments, including reliability, performance, and continuous improvement
- Test with real data, measure outcomes, and iterate based on results
- Collaborate with Product & Engineering to ship high-quality solutions
- Contribute to tools, documentation, and best practices that scale customer delivery

## WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR

- 5+ years of experience in software engineering or technical problem-solving roles
- Strong fundamentals in software design, system thinking
- Experience working across systems, integrations, and data flows
- Comfort working directly with customers and owning ambiguous problems
- Clear communication skills and a strong ownership mindset
- Curiosity and interest in building AI-powered systems that work in practice

## NICE TO HAVE

- Experience in forward-deployed, solutions engineering, or customer-facing roles
- Exposure to AI agents, automation, or conversational systems
- Experience operating and improving production systems

## About Silver.dev

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Silver.dev is a talent agency that connects venture-backed startups with vetted, interview-ready software engineers from Latin America.
- **Entity Type**: Private (bootstrapped/founder-funded)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2023
- **Founders**: Gabriel (last name not publicly disclosed; founder & owner is a former Staff Engineer with hiring manager experience)

## Core Business
- Primary industry: Staffing and Recruiting (specialized in software engineering talent).
- Target customers: B2B; primarily venture-backed startups (half of clients are Y Combinator companies) and product-focused tech companies.
- Mission/purpose: To help startups hire the right engineers without wasting weeks on interviews that go nowhere, by providing a no-BS, founder-led recruiting partner.

## Products & Services
- **Direct Hiring**: Full-time, permanent placement of interview-ready engineers who are vetted by engineers and integrated directly into the client’s team.
- **RPO (Recruitment Process Outsourcing)**: A flexible, dedicated hiring partner model that gives clients constant access to vetted candidates, designed for rapid scaling.
- **Payroll & Employer of Record (EOR)**: Handles contracts, onboarding, and compliance for hiring across Latin America, allowing clients to focus on growth.
- **Staffing**: Contract placement of talent under Silver.dev’s payroll, removing compliance overhead for the client.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed.
- **Key Metric**: 11 employees (up 62.5% year-over-year); 7,440 LinkedIn followers; 20,814 monthly website visits (up 35.2% year-over-year).
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: None publicly listed (clients include Y Combinator and Initialized Capital portfolio companies).
- **Growth Signals**: +62.5% headcount growth YoY; traffic growing +35.2% YoY; high client satisfaction (4.9/8 reviews on Clutch); average nine-day sprint from first call to signed offer for senior roles.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Founder-led**: Run by a former Staff Engineer with hands-on hiring management experience, ensuring deep understanding of product-grade engineering needs.
- **Engineer-vetted pipeline**: All candidates are screened by experienced engineers, not generic recruiters.
- **Outcome-based pricing**: Clients pay only when a candidate signs, removing financial risk.
- **Speed & quality**: Roles are filled in an average of nine days, with candidates who are truly interview-ready and culturally aligned with startups.
- **LatAm focus**: Taps into a high-quality, cost-effective talent pool across Latin America, handling compliance and payroll.

## Strategic Focus
- Continue to serve venture-backed startups, especially YC companies, by scaling the vetted talent pipeline.
- Deepen services to include RPO and EOR, making it easier for US startups to hire compliantly across LatAm.
- Expand the network of high-ownership, ambitious engineers prepared for startup environments.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Client reviews highlight a proactive, transparent, and collaborative team that “feels like an extension of the startup DNA.” High employee satisfaction with strong communication and adaptive problem-solving.
- **Remote/Hybrid**: The company has offices in San Francisco and Buenos Aires, but job postings are predominantly remote. The team is distributed across Argentina (85%) and the US.
- **Perks & Engineering Culture**: As a talent agency run by a former engineer, the company deeply understands engineering needs. Roles listed on their jobs board often include equity, bonuses, and equipment (MacBook). The small, lean team (11 people) offers fast-paced growth opportunities.

## Sources
1. [silver.dev](https://silver.dev/)
2. [linkedin.com/company/silver-dev](https://www.linkedin.com/company/silver-dev)
3. [clutch.co/profile/silverdev](https://clutch.co/profile/silverdev)
4. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/silver](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/silver)

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