Company
Forge
Annual salary
$160k – $300k/yr
Location
San Francisco, CA
Listed
61d ago
- Experience:
- 0 to 5 years
- Workplace:
- Onsite in San Francisco, CA.
- Equity:
- Up to 1%.
On-site in San Francisco, CA.
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What you'll do
- Own and ship entire features end-to-end that go live with Fortune 500 enterprise customers within weeks
- Build the data plane that ingests an enterprise's entire AI footprint, high-volume, heterogeneous telemetry from EDR, network, identity, and model gateways
- Design and implement real-time detection and policy enforcement for novel agent failure modes
- Work directly with enterprise customers during POCs and deployments, often shipping features mid-engagement
- Train small models to make fast inline judgments against behavioral baselines under tight latency budgets
- Red-team models and agents to find failures before customers do, prompt injection, tool misuse, data exfiltration, scope drift
- Shape the architecture and technical direction of the platform alongside a small, intense founding team
What you need
- We need a high-caliber engineer with 0-4 years of experience (including internships) who has shipped production systems at top-tier engineering organizations. You should be comfortable working at founding-stage intensity, owning features end-to-end, shipping directly to enterprise customers within weeks, and operating with minimal scaffolding. Bonus points if you have distributed systems, security engineering, or applied ML depth, or come from a quant/competitive programming background.
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What does this Forge role pay? +
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The listing gives the location as San Francisco, CA. Onsite in San Francisco, CA.
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