HeyGen

Forward Deployed Engineer, Strategic Accounts

HeyGen

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: San FranciscoCaliforniaUnited States

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Salary

💰 $175,000 - $225,000 per year

About the role

  • Own end-to-end enterprise deployments.
  • Lead technical discovery, architecture, and production rollout for our most complex strategic accounts. Integrate HeyGen cleanly into customer CRM, LMS, HR, and marketing stacks.
  • Build on the HeyGen API and LiveAvatar.
  • Ship real-time conversational agents, session-based lifecycles, and WebRTC integrations inside client applications. Produce reusable reference implementations, SDK wrappers, webhook integrations, and eval harnesses that later get pulled back into the platform.
  • Run the hard escalations.
  • Act as the senior technical owner on production-blocking issues. Advocate for the customers’ technical needs on streaming, latency, and integration failures, and coordinate cross-functional fixes with engineering.
  • Close the product feedback loop.
  • Translate messy real-world requirements into structured product input. Identify patterns across custom builds that should be generalized into the platform, and partner with core engineering to productize them.
  • Be a trusted technical voice for customers. Explain model behavior, performance trade-offs, and roadmap to non-technical executives and to customer engineering teams in equal measure.

Requirements

  • 3+ years in software engineering, solutions architecture, or a similar builder role. You're comfortable shipping production-grade code in Python and JavaScript/Node.js.
  • Hands-on experience building with LLMs or other generative AI systems in production, including familiarity with prompt engineering, agent development, and evaluation frameworks. You understand how model behavior affects product experience.
  • Working knowledge of API design, webhooks, and cloud infrastructure.
  • The ability to move fluidly between a customer engineering standup and a VP-level business conversation, and to explain technical trade-offs to both audiences without losing either.
  • High agency under ambiguity. You're energized by building a function that doesn't exist yet rather than joining one that does.
Benefits
  • Health benefits
  • 401k plan
  • Generous PTO
  • Parental leave program
  • Emotional health resources
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
PythonJavaScriptNode.jsAPI designwebhooksLLMsgenerative AIprompt engineeringagent developmentevaluation frameworks
Soft Skills
leadershipcommunicationproblem-solvingcustomer advocacycross-functional collaborationadaptabilitytechnical explanationpattern recognitiontrustworthinesshigh agency