Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Carnaby Fox is a rapidly growing AI startup working at the intersection of voice AI, AI agents, product engineering, and enterprise technology. The AI Product Engineer / Forward Deployed Engineer will work directly with technical customers to understand challenges, prototype solutions, build products, and ship features end-to-end across frontend and backend systems.
Responsibilities
- Work directly with enterprise customers and technical stakeholders to understand their challenges
- Translate customer feedback and ambiguous requirements into clear, practical product solutions
- Own features from discovery → prototype → development → launch → iteration
- Build across both frontend and backend
- Support customer POCs and post-sales technical engagements
- Act as a high-agency technical partner for customers
- Turn individual customer problems into reusable platform capabilities
- Rapidly prototype solutions and productize what works
- Use modern AI coding tools such as Cursor, Claude, and Codex as part of your everyday engineering workflow
- Ship at startup speed while maintaining strong product judgment and communication
Skills
- Travel: 10–20% travel expected for customer visits, conferences, and team offsites
- Experience: 0–3 years
- Visa Sponsorship: Open to visa transfers (e.g. OPT, H1B transfers)
- ✅ 0–3 years of experience in Product Engineering, FDE, Solutions Architecture, or as an Entrepreneur/Founder
- ✅ Strong ability to build and ship customer-facing products end-to-end
- ✅ Proficiency in TypeScript and Python
- ✅ Comfortable working across APIs, data, frontend, and backend
- ✅ Daily hands-on experience with AI-native development tools such as Cursor, Claude Code, or Codex
- ✅ Strong product and design sense
- ✅ Ability to take a vague customer request and turn it into a crisp, shippable feature
- ✅ Comfortable interacting directly with technical stakeholders, particularly engineers
- ✅ Strong ownership and written communication
- ✅ Experience working in a startup, founder-led environment, or high-velocity engineering team
- ✅ Degree from one of the specified target universities, including institutions such as Stanford, MIT, Berkeley, Harvard, CMU, IITs, Waterloo, UPenn, Columbia, Cornell, Cambridge, Oxford , etc
- 🚀 Founder or entrepreneurial experience
- 🚀 Built a startup, side project, or product with real traction
- 🚀 Experience in a YC or high-growth startup environment
- 🚀 Previously worked directly with enterprise customers
- 🚀 Demonstrated ability to move quickly from an ambiguous problem to a working solution
- 🚀 A strong “builder” mindset and high level of ownership
- 🚀 Excellent written communication and ability to clearly communicate decisions, progress, and next steps
- TypeScript • Python • React • Next.js • Node.js • Tailwind • OpenAI • Anthropic • Claude • Codex • Cursor • LiveKit • WebSockets • Pipecat • Temporal • AWS • Kubernetes • PostgreSQL • Redis • Terraform • OpenTelemetry • Figma • Vapi • Retell AI • ElevenLabs
- ✔️ Love building rather than just planning
- ✔️ Enjoy solving ambiguous technical problems
- ✔️ Like talking to customers and understanding their pain points
- ✔️ Want to combine engineering with product thinking
- ✔️ Use AI coding tools as part of your normal workflow
- ✔️ Can move comfortably between frontend and backend
- ✔️ Have shipped something used by real people
- ✔️ Thrive in fast-moving startup environments
- ✔️ Want meaningful ownership early in your career
- Preferred Locations : North America-based; SF or Austin preferred
Benefits
- Competitive equity
- Remote work model
- Open to visa transfers (e.g. OPT, H1B transfers)
- High ownership and autonomy
- Opportunity to work directly with customers
- Opportunity to influence the product roadmap
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