Forward Deployed Engineer
Chaos Labs builds technology for safer financial markets, including risk management systems, oracles, and AI models for blockchain protocols and financial institutions. It also develops enterprise AI infrastructure for understanding, governing, and improving organizational AI work.
Maintainer signals as of 9/2/2026
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About Chaos Labs
Chaos Labs provides risk management, oracle, proof-of-reserves, analytics, and AI infrastructure for blockchain protocols, exchanges, institutions, and other financial platforms. Its services include simulation, testing, and analysis tooling for blockchain protocols, as well as price oracles and onchain monitoring that help secure financial markets and digital assets. The company also builds enterprise AI infrastructure focused on visibility into AI workflows, organizational knowledge, governance, and proprietary intelligence.
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About the Role
You will join customer conversations early alongside the Product Lead and VP of Sales, exploring how customers can use the platform. You will develop a deep understanding of the platform, evaluate technical feasibility, and help customers and internal teams reason through architecture and implementation tradeoffs. When hands-on work is the fastest path to clarity, you will prototype, build, and debug solutions. As the platform evolves, you will own increasingly complex customer deployments involving integrations, evaluation, fine-tuning, and optimization. You will define repeatable technical patterns, solve problems end to end, and move fluidly between system design, detailed implementation, and direct customer conversations.
Requirements
- 6+ years of experience in software engineering, forward deployed engineering, customer engineering, or a similarly technical customer-facing role
- Strong software engineering and systems-design fundamentals
- Ability to write, debug, and review production-quality code
- Deep experience with APIs, integrations, data systems, cloud infrastructure, and modern application architecture
- Strong production experience in Python and/or TypeScript
- Proficiency with SQL, APIs, integrations, authentication, cloud infrastructure, and production observability
- Hands-on experience building AI-powered applications, including working with model APIs, context management, tool calling, retrieval, evaluation, and cost-quality-latency tradeoffs
- Ability to move between system architecture, detailed implementation, and direct technical conversations with customers
- Strong communication skills and credibility to work with customer engineers, internal engineers, and business stakeholders
- Exceptional agency and comfort operating in a lean, fast-moving environment
Responsibilities
- Lead technical discovery and solution design in early customer conversations
- Evaluate feasibility and tradeoffs across architecture, APIs, integrations, data, authentication, security, infrastructure, and deployment
- Prototype, build, and debug technical solutions alongside the engineering team
- Own technical problems end to end
- Develop a deep understanding of the platform and the environments in which it must operate
- Turn early solutions into scalable technical patterns
- Support complex customer deployments involving integrations, evaluation, fine-tuning, and optimization
Benefits
- Competitive compensation and equity package aligned with growth, performance, and merit
Hiring Process
Hiring Process typically takes two to four weeks, depending on the role: 01/Interview with Talent Lead, 02/Technical Assignment, 03/Interview with Hiring Manager, 04/Interview with CEO.