Internship: Forward Deployed Engineer, Software
Los Angeles, CA · San Francisco, CALos Angeles, CA +1On-site
Pay not posted
Posted by Genera · open on Ashby as of
Pay not postedSan Francisco, CAOn-siteFull-time
Early-career member of Genera’s Deployments team, combining technical building with direct customer work to deploy AI software for enterprise customers.
Free. Upload your resume once, see why each FDE role fits, and get introduced only when you say so.
Ask your AI about this job
Not posted
Median $135K
Junior FDE postings26 postings · middle 50% of posted pay$117K–$157KBuilds what the customer runs
Balance Mostly building
Project stages
The posting reads as a junior role. What level are you at now?
The job is in San Francisco, CA. Could you work there?
Which of these have you used in production?
Answer each one. Nothing is saved or sent.
Los Angeles, CA · San Francisco, CALos Angeles, CA +1On-site
Pay not posted
Pay not posted
San Francisco, CA · Miami, FL · +1 moreSan Francisco, CA +2On-site
$150,000–$220,000
Posted by Genera on
We are building Genera because AI has a major capacity shortage. No, we aren’t talking about compute capacity. The #1 bottleneck for enterprise AI is deployment capacity.
FDE is the hottest job in tech, and no fast-growing AI company can hire enough of them to keep up with customer demand. Historically, System Integrators have been the default solution for scaling software implementations without linearly adding more headcount. But SIs are a $450b market with a premise that is fundamentally at odds with the promise of AI. You shouldn’t pay consultants by the hour to deploy software that is designed to displace human labor.
Genera agents automate routine deployment work like requirements gathering, data migration, configuration building, and testing. Our Deployments team combines exceptional technical talent with deep customer ownership. With Genera, our customers pay for outcomes, not hours, and their customers go live faster than ever before.
Genera was founded by Will and James, Stanford classmates with two decades of experience building and deploying AI products. We raised $10m led by First Round Capital and are growing our team in San Francisco and Bangalore.
We are looking for exceptional technical students and recent graduates who want to build, work directly with customers, and learn how great AI products get deployed in the real world.
You might be studying computer science, applied math, engineering, or another deeply technical field. You could probably become a software engineer, but you want a role with more customer exposure, more business context, and more ownership.
You’ll join our Deployments team and work alongside experienced FDEs, product leaders, engineers, and founders to deploy software for some of the best AI companies in the world and their enterprise customers.
Roughly 60% of the job is building and 40% is customer-facing. You might join a customer discovery session in the morning, use Claude Code or another agentic development tool to build an automation in the afternoon, test it against real customer workflows, and then present what you built back to the customer.
You’ll build customer-specific agents and configurations, work with engineering to improve the core Genera platform, and learn to recognize which solutions should become repeatable capabilities. As you grow, you’ll also learn how to build executive relationships, identify opportunities for expansion, and partner with Sales to grow customer accounts.
We care deeply about mentorship. You’ll work closely with experienced teammates who are invested in teaching you how to become an exceptional technical builder, customer partner, and problem solver. We want you taking on real responsibility quickly, but we do not expect you to figure everything out alone.
Over time, our goal is for you to become someone who can independently run a deployment, ship production-quality solutions, collaborate with engineers, and become a trusted partner to sophisticated enterprise customers.
This role is based in San Francisco and includes some customer travel.
Genera combines AI agents and forward-deployed engineers to deploy enterprise AI applications for software companies, charging for customer outcomes rather than hours.
Seed · 10–50 people
Pay not posted
Pay not posted
$160,000–$240,000
$100,000–$150,000
Pay not posted
Hiring at Genera and want this page changed or removed? Email info@nextmove.md and we take it down.
Employer postings · How we read postings