Senior Forward Deployed Engineer
Afresh · San Francisco, CA
Posted about 3 months ago · $156,060 - $211,140
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Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 81 days Afresh's roles stay open a median of 81 days
- Reposted
- No
- Salary listed
- Yes 94% of Afresh's roles list one
- Ghost-job risk at Afresh
- high 16 stale, 0 reposted of 17 open
- Hiring momentum
- 21 roles opened in the last 90 days ↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
- Last confirmed on the employer's board
- 2026-10-23
Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from Afresh's own greenhouse board since 2026-08-03. Full hiring picture for Afresh.
About this role
As a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer at Afresh, you will work both in the field with grocery customers and on the platform that supports the deployment of AI solutions. Your role involves scoping and architecting projects with clients, integrating their data systems, and building production-grade AI systems. You will also focus on improving the platform based on field learnings, ensuring that the solutions you develop are scalable and reusable across different customers.
- benefits
- 5/5
- freshness
- 1/5
- career value
- 5/5
- role clarity
- 5/5
- pay transparency
- 5/5
Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of Afresh as an employer.
What you need
- 3+ years building production software and data systems
- Strong, production-grade code
- Ability to design clean and workable solutions from ambiguous problems
- Experience building real systems with LLMs and agents
- Proficiency in building and operating data pipelines
- Experience with modern cloud data platforms (Databricks, BigQuery, Snowflake, or similar)
Nice to have
- Experience in grocery, retail, or supply chain data domains
- Knowledge of knowledge graphs, ontologies, or semantic layers in production
- Experience with graph and vector stores (pgvector, Pinecone, Weaviate) and hybrid search
- Familiarity with MCP or similar tool/context protocols
- Experience with agent frameworks (e.g., LangGraph)
What you get
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage for you and your family
- Dedicated mental health support and counseling services
- Competitive base salary
- Meaningful equity for U.S. employees
- 401(k) program with a generous company match
- Home office stipend and flexible workspace access
Worth weighing
- No salary listed in the posting, only a range
- The role requires significant customer interaction and travel
- The position involves both deployment and platform development, which may require diverse skill sets
- The company is still scaling, which may involve navigating uncertainties
Summarised from Afresh's posting. Read the full original.
Listed by Afresh on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-10-23. PitchMeAI is not the employer.
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