About Founders Careers:
Founders Careers works with startups and technology companies to identify high-quality talent for high-impact roles.

As AI companies move from models and prototypes to real-world deployments, there is growing demand for engineers who can work across customers, product and engineering - understand the problem, build the solution and get it running in production.

Founders Careers is building a highly curated network of India-based engineers for FDE / Applied AI opportunities with high-growth startups and technology companies, including global teams.

We’re starting with a small group and will selectively speak with engineers whose experience strongly matches this kind of work.

By Forward Deployed Engineer - we mean

You should be comfortable getting close to the actual business problem, figuring out what needs to be built and owning the solution end-to-end.

That could involve:
- Working directly with customers, founders or business teams
- Understanding ambiguous or poorly defined problems
- Translating business problems into technical solutions




- Building and iterating prototypes quickly
- Developing production-grade applications
- Integrating APIs, databases and existing enterprise systems
- Building with LLMs, agents and applied AI systems
- Deploying, debugging and improving solutions in production
- Making product and engineering decisions independently
- *You don't need to have "FDE" in your title*

You may currently be working as a:

Forward Deployed Engineer / Applied AI Engineer / AI Engineer / Founding Engineer / Backend / Full-stack Engineer / Solutions Engineer / Customer Engineer / Implementation Engineer / Technical Consultant

What matters more than the title is the kind of problems you have solved.

What we're looking for

Robust candidates will typically have:
- Strong software engineering fundamentals
- Experience building and shipping real products or systems
- Hands-on experience with LLMs, AI applications or agentic sys

📌 Forward Deployed Engineer (Bengaluru)
🏢 Founders.Careers
📍 Bengaluru