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Cekura seeks forward deployed engineer
Y Combinator-backed AI agent testing startup hiring technical customer specialist in San Francisco.
In brief
Y Combinator-backed AI agent testing startup hiring technical customer specialist in San Francisco. Cekura is building its first forward deployed engineer role to embed with customers, understand their AI agent workflows, and turn those insights into product improvements. Originally reported by Hacker News.
Cekura builds AI agent infrastructure
Cekura helps teams test, monitor, debug, and improve conversational AI agents across voice, chat, SMS, phone, and web. The Y Combinator F24 startup catches failures in latency, hallucinations, tool calls, and production workflows.
Role bridges customers and product
The forward deployed engineer embeds with technical customers to understand how they build agents, helps them create self-improving loops with Cekura, and feeds learnings back into product decisions.
Automate insights from customer usage
You'll build systems showing how customers use Cekura, where they find value, where they get stuck, and what the product should tackle next. Data drives every decision.
Shape the FDE organization
As the first forward deployed engineer, you'll create the playbooks, processes, and standards for how this function operates at Cekura from the ground up.
Technical skills required
You need two-plus years in dev tools, infrastructure, SaaS, or AI roles. Comfort with APIs, SQL, Python or JavaScript, and customer debugging is essential. Clear communication with engineers and executives matters.
Founder experience is a bonus
Prior founding experience or founder aspirations are nice to have. Knowledge of LLMs, voice AI, observability tools, or platforms like Twilio, Vapi, or Retell strengthens your candidacy.
Compensation and location
The role pays one hundred thousand to one hundred eighty thousand dollars and requires in-person work in San Francisco. Cekura offers equity, medical, dental, vision, and team meals.
Not for rigid structure seekers
This role demands comfort with ambiguity and messy customer debugging. If you need heavy processes, prefer pure relationship work, or want a narrowly defined job, this may not fit.
The one thing
Cekura is building its first forward deployed engineer role to embed with customers, understand their AI agent workflows, and turn those insights into product improvements.
