Forward Deployed Engineer, Brainbase Embed
Brainbase Labs
San Francisco, CA · Posted August 14, 2026
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November 2026
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Rankings about engineering jobs
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- Best cities for engineering pay after cost of living #1 San Mateo ($216k)
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- Employers with the most engineering jobs #1 Amazon (2,992 roles)
Pay compared with the market
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About the job
About Brainbase
Brainbase is building the primitives for the next 1B agents.
We power internal agents across government, Fortune 500, frontier labs and hyper-growth startups. Enterprises use our configurable primitives such as evals, observability, router, authentication, permissions, sandboxes, harnesses and more to deploy internal agents securely at scale. We support 8+ harness and 50+ models, including sovereign deployments.
About Brainbase Embed
Brainbase Embed is a multi-month outcome-oriented deployment program where we engage with high-value customers by embedding engineers internally to manage their Brainbase deployment from start to finish.
Launches
Take a look at some of our previous launches to get an idea of what we’re working on:
- Brainbase platform: https://brainbaselabs.com/blog/brainbase-is-now-ga
- Universal Managed Agents API: https://brainbaselabs.com/blog/universal-managed-agents
- Universal Agent Protocol (UAP) (open-source): universalagentprotocol.io http://universalagentprotocol.io
About the role
You would be primarily responsible for 1-or-more accounts at a time and see their process from post-sales to deployment and beyond.