Forward Deployed Engineer
TL;DR: Strala is rebuilding the foundation of the world’s largest industry - insurance.
In less than a year, we reached multi seven-figure ARR and are growing 50% MOM. We raised two rounds from Tier 1 funds including Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund, led by the partner who was early in OpenAI, Cognition and Scale AI. Our team comes from institutions like Harvard, Berkeley & Oxford and firms like Optiver, AMD & Palantir (+ICPC, NeurIPS backgrounds).
In this role you will
- You will individually deploy multi-modal, agentic AI systems into production with major business impact. You own client deployments end-to-end, from scoping through go-live, acting as the primary point of contact for senior client stakeholders.
- Build and manage client relationships: understand challenges, align priorities, and become the trusted partner executives rely on to scale their AI adoption.
- Design, build, and evolve AI agents that deliver optimal claims outcomes, including prompt engineering, model integration, and blitz prototyping using AI-assisted coding tools.
- Work with applied AI on a daily basis. You scope and develop new features that allow our customers to scale while consistently improving claims results.
- Help integrate our product into client environments, working hands-on with their tech teams on APIs and systems.
- Coordinate with our core platform team to ensure smooth delivery and improve the product with actionable insights.
- Capture and share best practices in internal playbooks to scale Forward Deployed Engineering.
You will thrive if you
- Think and operate like a founder. You take ownership of problems, move fast, and figure it out, whether that means jumping on a client call or writing a quick integration.
- Have 2+ years in a role combining technical depth with client-facing ownership (e.g. agent engineering, forward deployed engineering, growth engineer, or founding engineer/founder).
- Have a solid technical foundation: comfort with Pyth...