Forward Deployed Engineer
US$140,000 – US$180,000 / yr base salary
Posted 22 Sep 2026
Advertised as “Senior Forward Deployed Engineer - Labrynth”
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- Management level
- Individual contributor
- Employment
- Remote
- Contract
- Full-time
| Base salary | US$140,000 – US$180,000 / yr |
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About Labrynth
Labrynth accelerates progress by streamlining regulatory complexity. We build AI-powered platforms that navigate complex regulations, generate audit-level documentation, and provide certainty, not shortcuts. Our technology serves clients across heavily regulated industries including energy, compliance, and government regulations.
We operate as a forward-deployed engineering organization: small, high-velocity teams embedded directly with clients to rapidly discover needs and ship production-quality solutions.
About the Role
We are hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer to work directly with customers on regulated, operational workflows and turn that field work into a production product.
FDEs sit close to the customer and close to the code. You will map real workflows, identify the first useful product slice, implement it, verify it, demo it truthfully, and help decide what should become a reusable platform. The work spans three modes:
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Field: shadow operators, model decisions, find evidence sources, and understand where the workflow is slow, risky, or brittle.
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Build: ship production slices across UI, API, data, permissions, tests, and deployment paths.
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Productize: turn customer-specific learning into primitives, configuration, evals, playbooks, or roadmap changes.
What You'll Do
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Run customer discovery, workflow shadowing, and field notes with operators and decision owners, until you can name the users, states, evidence sources, exceptions, and the real operating constraint
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Implement thin product slices in a live codebase across frontend, backend, data, and integrations, where the happy path works, unsafe paths fail, and the behavior survives realistic data
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Write tests, run realistic paths, inspect logs, and document what is proven, missing, or uncertain, so every customer demo is backed by evidence, not optimism
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Explain tradeoffs, risks, and next steps to non-technical customers without overclaiming
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Identify reusable patterns from field work and feed them into product and engineering, so the next customer gets faster onboarding, safer workflows, or more reusable product
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Carry ambiguous work end to end: discovery, build, demo, rollout, and follow-up
What We're Looking For
We don't need you to have used every tool in our stack. We need someone who can move safely across this kind of system and learn the missing pieces quickly.