Forward Deployed Engineer
Anyscale
Location
San Francisco or Palo Alto, CA
Employment Type
Full time
Location Type
Hybrid
Department
Customer Solutions Group
Compensation
- Target Base Salary:$170K – $247K • Offers Equity
At Anyscale, we take a market-based approach to compensation. We are data-driven, transparent, and consistent. As the market data changes over time, the target salary for this role may be adjusted.
This role is also eligible to participate in Anyscale's Equity and Benefits offerings, including the following:
Stock Options
Healthcare plans, with premiums covered by Anyscale at 99%
401k Retirement Plan
Wellness & Education Stipend
Paid Parental Leave
Fertility Benefits
Paid Time Off
Commute reimbursement
100% of in office meals covered
At Anyscale, we're on a mission to democratize distributed computing and make it accessible to software developers of all skill levels. We’re commercializing Ray, a popular open-source project that's creating an ecosystem of libraries for scalable machine learning. Companies like OpenAI, Uber, Spotify, Instacart, Cruise, and many more, have Ray in their tech stacks to accelerate the progress of AI applications out into the real world.
With Anyscale, we’re building the best place to run Ray, so that any developer or data scientist can scale an ML application from their laptop to the cluster without needing to be a distributed systems expert.
Proud to be backed by Andreessen Horowitz, NEA, and Addition with $250+ million raised to date.
About the role:
As a Forward Deployed Engineer at Anyscale, you will partner directly with our most strategic customers to ensure they achieve meaningful business outcomes with Ray and the Anyscale platform. Embedded within customer teams, you’ll act as a trusted advisor, aligning technical solutions with customer priorities, accelerating time-to-value, and driving adoption at scale.
You’ll work across customer organizations — from technical leadership to individual contributors — to scope and deliver impactful solutions. By connecting insights from the field back to our product and engineering teams, you’ll help shape Anyscale’s roadmap and ensure we remain focused on solving our customers’ most critical challenges.
In this role, you will:
Work onsite with key customers to lead proof-of-value engagements, deployments, and enterprise adoption
Translate business objectives into technical solutions that demonstrate clear ROI and strategic impact
Build and deliver high-impact demos, reference architectures, and enablement programs tailored to customer needs
Act as a trusted advisor across all levels of the organization, ensuring confidence in Anyscale and Ray
Collaborate closely with sales, product, and engineering to accelerate deals, unblock challenges, and drive long-term success
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Provide structured feedback from customer engagements to influence product direction and go-to-market strategy
We’d love to hear from you if you have:
5+ years of customer-facing experience in forward deployed engineering, solutions architecture, field engineering or Software Engineering
Strong technical foundation with Ray and the ability to apply Ray to real-world use cases
Proven success driving enterprise adoption of complex SaaS, infrastructure, or ML/AI solutions
Experience engaging both executive and technical stakeholders, tailoring communication to each audience
A customer-first mindset with a track record of delivering measurable business impact
Willingness to travel frequently and spend extended time embedded with customers
Compensation Range: $170K - $247K