Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, Galileo
$180-210k
OTE
+ 📈 Pre-IPO Stock Options
2 days a week in office (New York City, NY)
AI observability and evaluation platform
Job no longer available
AI observability and evaluation platform
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
$180-210k
OTE
+ 📈 Pre-IPO Stock Options
2 days a week in office (New York City, NY)
101-200 employees
Company mission
To give AI teams a way to evaluate, iterate, monitor and protect AI applications at enterprise scale.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor's degree in a relevant field (e.g., Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology) or equivalent work experience
- 5+ years as a backend or full-stack SWE, ideally with experience at an AI-first or developer-focused startup
- Proficient in Python and familiar with deploying LLM-based workflows and evaluations
- Hands-on experience with OpenAI Agents SDK, LangGraph, CrewAI, MCP, or similar
- Familiarity with LLM APIs, RAG architectures, and tools like Rasa, DsPy, or evaluation frameworks
- Experience working directly with customers (external or internal), gathering requirements, and delivering impact
- Strong communication and problem-solving skills
- Willing to travel for onsite work with customers as needed (up to 20%)
What the job involves
- As a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), you will work directly with our largest customers to design and deliver tailored technical solutions that accelerate their success with generative AI.
- This is a customer-facing, highly technical role that blends backend engineering with problem-solving and product thinking
- You’ll work closely with our Head of Field Engineering, AI engineers, and customer PMs/engineering teams to map ideal workflows, build bespoke integrations, and ensure rapid progress toward production-grade outcomes
- Collaborate with customers to understand their business challenges and design scalable AI-powered solutions
- Build custom features, integrations, and workflows using cutting-edge AI frameworks (e.g. OpenAI Agents SDK, LangGraph, CrewAI)
- Partner with customer engineering and PM teams to deploy solutions and ensure sustained success
- Continuously track, communicate, and align workstreams with internal and customer stakeholders
- Travel on-site to work closely with strategic customers and build deep empathy for their needs
Our take
Generative AI evaluation company Galileo is here to help solve AI's measurement problem. To empower a future where all enterprises run on machine learning, it supplies AI teams with a way to evaluate, iterate, monitor and protect AI applications at enterprise scale.
The value of this offering is that is enables teams to build at speed while ensuring their apps are both tailored for purpose and secure. The product is powered by research-backed evaluation metrics, and is already used by hundreds of AI teams from startups to Fortune 50 enterprises.
Galileo has experienced rapid growth. For example, in 2024, it saw an over 800% boost to its revenue. It has also raised substantial funding that supports the scaling of its go-to-market strategy, expansion of product development efforts and a further investment in research.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Oct 2024
$45m
SERIES B
Nov 2022
$18m
SERIES A
Total funding: $68.1m
Company benefits
- Best-in-class coverage in Health / Dental / Vision for our team
- Wellness stipend for everyone on the team to take good care of themselves, even outside of work
- While we’re at work, our meals are taken care of, so we can get all the fuel we need to be at our best
- Investing in ourselves also includes investing in our retirement. We provide a 401-K plan to encourage saving some portion of our paychecks
- Take time off as needed to rest, refresh or rejuvenate
- We strongly believe in supporting our team as well as helping them support those near and dear to them
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Vikram Chatterji
(Co-Founder & CEO)Member of the Forbes Technology Council and Advisor at CMU Tech & Entrepreneurship. Was previously Product Management Lead of Google AI at Google as well as Head of Product for Consumer/Data Science at Premise Data.
Yash Sheth
(Co-Founder & CTO)Former Staff Software Engineer Google. Has also worked as a Graduate Teaching Assistant at UC Irvine, interned in Software Development at salesforce.com and was Associate Systems Engineer at Perfect Carboys.
Atindriyo Sanyal
(Co-Founder & CPO)An Advisor for various companies, they previously were part of Engineering Leadership at Uber AI. Was also Senior Engineering Lead at Apple and a Graduate Researcher at the Networks Research Laboratory at UCLA.
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