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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Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will lead technical discovery and solution design in early customer conversations. You will evaluate architecture and implementation tradeoffs, prototype and debug solutions, and work with engineering to turn effective approaches into reliable implementations. You will own technical problems end to end across customer environments and the platform.
Requirements
- 6+ years of experience in software engineering, forward deployed engineering, customer engineering, or a similar technical customer-facing role.
- Strong software engineering and systems design fundamentals.
- Experience with API, integration, data system, cloud infrastructure, and modern application architecture.
- Production experience with Python or TypeScript.
- Proficiency with SQL, API, integration, authentication, cloud infrastructure, and production observability.
- Experience building AI-powered applications using model API, context management, tool calling, retrieval, evaluation, and cost-quality-latency tradeoffs.
- Ability to discuss system architecture and detailed implementation directly with customers.
- Strong communication skills.
Responsibilities
- Lead technical discovery and solution design in early customer conversations.
- Evaluate feasibility and tradeoffs across architecture, API, integration, data, authentication, security, infrastructure, and deployment.
- Prototype, build, and debug technical solutions.
- Own technical problems end to end across the platform and customer environments.
Benefits
- 21 vacation days, 7 sick days, and 8 observed U.S. company holidays.
- 100% employer-paid medical, dental and vision coverage for employees and dependents.
- FSA and HSA options.
- OneMedical, Teladoc, Talkspace, and EAP programs.
- 401(k) with a 100% company match on the first 6% contributed.
- Pre-tax commuter benefits.
- Equity.
Hiring Process
Hiring typically takes two to four weeks: interview with Talent Lead, technical assignment, interview with Hiring Manager, and interview with CEO.
