Forward Deployed Engineer
Top Benefits
About the role
Who you are
- You're a strong customer focused engineer. CS degree or equivalent experience. You'll go through our standard software engineering interview loop because you need to be able to build production-quality solutions, not just advise on them
- You have FDE-equivalent experience. This might be a formal Forward Deployed Engineer role, or you might be an early engineer or founder at a startup where you worked closely with GTM and did pilot implementations for enterprises. The key signal: you've built custom technical solutions for customers, not just internal products
- You're an excellent communicator who can sell the vision. You need to articulate Warp's vision for ambient agents in a way that gets enterprise engineers and executives excited. You're not just building—you're convincing people that this is the future and they should be part of it
- You have high EQ and can navigate enterprise relationships. Working with other companies' engineers requires a different approach than internal collaboration. You know how to be amenable, patient, and constructive even when things aren't set up the way you'd prefer
- You thrive in ambiguity and can figure things out. This is our first FDE role. There's no playbook yet—you'll be building it as you go. You're excited by that, not intimidated
- Experience with AI/LLMs and agentic systems
- Background in developer tools or infrastructure
- Experience with Rust or Go
What the job involves
- Warp is building a full platform for configuring, programming, deploying, and interacting with Ambient Agents—AI agents that run in the background, automatically, without requiring constant user interaction.
- These agents can integrate with Slack, Linear, Jira, GitHub Actions, and other developer tools to automate everything from bug triage and test generation to code maintenance and incident response
- We've designed our platform with flexibility at its core. Enterprise customers can choose from full-service Warp-hosted solutions (where we handle everything from Slack integrations to infrastructure) all the way to fully self-hosted deployments where customers run Warp's CLI on their own infrastructure.
- The challenge? Every enterprise has different security requirements, internal tooling, and use cases—and we need someone to bridge the gap between our platform and their unique environments
- As our Founding Forward Deployed Engineer, you'll be the first hire dedicated to making enterprise implementations successful, turning promising pilots into production deployments that drive real business value
- Own end-to-end enterprise implementations: Build ambient agents inside enterprise customer environments, working directly in their infrastructure to prove out business value
- Build customer-specific integrations: Create GitHub Actions that run ambient agents with customer style guides, Jira bots that trigger locally-hosted agents, Slack integrations that let teams @mention Warpy to fix bugs or run workflows, and whatever else customers need to make ambient agents work in their stack
- Accelerate deals through technical execution: Turn pilot conversations into signed contracts by removing the implementation burden from customers who say 'this is great, we just don't have time to build it.'
- Partner closely with Sales from discovery through implementation: Join customer calls from the very first discovery meeting to understand their technical environment and identify opportunities for ambient agents. Be the technical voice that helps scope what's possible and builds confidence in our solution
- Translate customer learnings back into product: Work closely with Engineering to share what you're learning in the field—which integrations should become first-party, what's blocking faster implementations, and where our platform needs to evolve. Your customer work should make the next implementation easier
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision coverage
- Ergonomic office equipment
- Equity
- Flexible work locations
- 20 paid-time-off days
- Twice-a-year retreats
About Warp
At Warp we are working on a holistic rethink of how the command-line ought to work, building a new Rust-based terminal that keeps what’s best about the CLI while modernizing and upgrading the experience.
It’s fully-native (Rust-based) and GPU-accelerated. Rather than a single buffer, we are dividing terminal output into a sequence of commands + their outputs that we call blocks. We are replacing the character buffer with a normal text editor and equipping it with intellisense-like autocomplete.
Warp is modernizing the command line experience to make it more intuitive and collaborative for modern developers and teams, turning the terminal into a real platform to enable engineering workflows. Our mission is to elevate developer productivity, and the team is excited to have this opportunity to radically improve a tool that every developer uses and fundamentally change how software development and devops are done.
We are a company run by product-first builders, building a core product for all developers. We are committed to understanding our users deeply. We believe we will ultimately build the best product and business if that team includes developers and designers from a wide range of backgrounds. The early team comes from Google, Dropbox, Gem, LinkedIn, and Facebook. We are looking for passionate individuals to join us and help bring Warp to the world.
Forward Deployed Engineer
Top Benefits
About the role
Who you are
- You're a strong customer focused engineer. CS degree or equivalent experience. You'll go through our standard software engineering interview loop because you need to be able to build production-quality solutions, not just advise on them
- You have FDE-equivalent experience. This might be a formal Forward Deployed Engineer role, or you might be an early engineer or founder at a startup where you worked closely with GTM and did pilot implementations for enterprises. The key signal: you've built custom technical solutions for customers, not just internal products
- You're an excellent communicator who can sell the vision. You need to articulate Warp's vision for ambient agents in a way that gets enterprise engineers and executives excited. You're not just building—you're convincing people that this is the future and they should be part of it
- You have high EQ and can navigate enterprise relationships. Working with other companies' engineers requires a different approach than internal collaboration. You know how to be amenable, patient, and constructive even when things aren't set up the way you'd prefer
- You thrive in ambiguity and can figure things out. This is our first FDE role. There's no playbook yet—you'll be building it as you go. You're excited by that, not intimidated
- Experience with AI/LLMs and agentic systems
- Background in developer tools or infrastructure
- Experience with Rust or Go
What the job involves
- Warp is building a full platform for configuring, programming, deploying, and interacting with Ambient Agents—AI agents that run in the background, automatically, without requiring constant user interaction.
- These agents can integrate with Slack, Linear, Jira, GitHub Actions, and other developer tools to automate everything from bug triage and test generation to code maintenance and incident response
- We've designed our platform with flexibility at its core. Enterprise customers can choose from full-service Warp-hosted solutions (where we handle everything from Slack integrations to infrastructure) all the way to fully self-hosted deployments where customers run Warp's CLI on their own infrastructure.
- The challenge? Every enterprise has different security requirements, internal tooling, and use cases—and we need someone to bridge the gap between our platform and their unique environments
- As our Founding Forward Deployed Engineer, you'll be the first hire dedicated to making enterprise implementations successful, turning promising pilots into production deployments that drive real business value
- Own end-to-end enterprise implementations: Build ambient agents inside enterprise customer environments, working directly in their infrastructure to prove out business value
- Build customer-specific integrations: Create GitHub Actions that run ambient agents with customer style guides, Jira bots that trigger locally-hosted agents, Slack integrations that let teams @mention Warpy to fix bugs or run workflows, and whatever else customers need to make ambient agents work in their stack
- Accelerate deals through technical execution: Turn pilot conversations into signed contracts by removing the implementation burden from customers who say 'this is great, we just don't have time to build it.'
- Partner closely with Sales from discovery through implementation: Join customer calls from the very first discovery meeting to understand their technical environment and identify opportunities for ambient agents. Be the technical voice that helps scope what's possible and builds confidence in our solution
- Translate customer learnings back into product: Work closely with Engineering to share what you're learning in the field—which integrations should become first-party, what's blocking faster implementations, and where our platform needs to evolve. Your customer work should make the next implementation easier
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision coverage
- Ergonomic office equipment
- Equity
- Flexible work locations
- 20 paid-time-off days
- Twice-a-year retreats
About Warp
At Warp we are working on a holistic rethink of how the command-line ought to work, building a new Rust-based terminal that keeps what’s best about the CLI while modernizing and upgrading the experience.
It’s fully-native (Rust-based) and GPU-accelerated. Rather than a single buffer, we are dividing terminal output into a sequence of commands + their outputs that we call blocks. We are replacing the character buffer with a normal text editor and equipping it with intellisense-like autocomplete.
Warp is modernizing the command line experience to make it more intuitive and collaborative for modern developers and teams, turning the terminal into a real platform to enable engineering workflows. Our mission is to elevate developer productivity, and the team is excited to have this opportunity to radically improve a tool that every developer uses and fundamentally change how software development and devops are done.
We are a company run by product-first builders, building a core product for all developers. We are committed to understanding our users deeply. We believe we will ultimately build the best product and business if that team includes developers and designers from a wide range of backgrounds. The early team comes from Google, Dropbox, Gem, LinkedIn, and Facebook. We are looking for passionate individuals to join us and help bring Warp to the world.