Dialtone

AI agents for enterprises

Forward Deployed Engineer

$100K - $180K0.10% - 0.50%Mountain View, CA, US
Job type
Full-time
Role
Engineering, Full stack
Experience
3+ years
Visa
US citizen/visa only
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Akash Kashyap
Akash Kashyap
Founder

About the role

Forward Deployed Engineer

Bridge cutting-edge AI with real-world enterprise impact.


About Dialtone

Dialtone is building the platform layer for enterprise-grade agentic AI. Our stack spans real-time orchestration, retrieval-augmented reasoning, dynamic tool calling, and human-in-the-loop oversight - all delivered as production SaaS. Enterprises rely on Dialtone Agents to automate thousands of hours of cross-system work each month.

We’re not just gluing APIs together; we’re inventing deeply technical infrastructure that makes large-language-model reasoning reliable, observable, and secure at scale.


What you’ll do

  • Solution architecture
    Partner with customers to map business workflows to Dialtone’s agent platform. Design integrations, data flows, and human-in-the-loop checkpoints that meet reliability, security, and compliance needs.
  • Hands-on implementation
    Build custom connectors, prompt templates, and evaluation harnesses in TypeScript / Python. Stand up QA pipelines and performance dashboards that prove success.
  • Technical project ownership
    Drive projects from discovery to production launch. Coordinate with customer engineering, security, and ops teams while looping back insights to Dialtone’s product and core engineering groups.
  • Best-practice evangelism
    Create reference architectures, sample repos, and internal playbooks so future deployments move faster.
  • Rapid feedback loop
    Test new platform features in the wild, debug edge cases, and influence the roadmap with real-world requirements.

You might be a fit if you…

  • Have 3-8 yrs delivering production software or solutions architecture for enterprise customers.
  • Are fluent in TypeScript / Node.js / Python - bonus for Go or Rust - and comfortable writing Terraform or Pulumi when infra needs it.
  • Have deployed distributed systems: queues, event buses, or data pipelines that process millions of events daily.
  • Thrive at whiteboarding with customers, translating fuzzy requirements into crisp technical specs and shipped code.
  • Understand the nuances of security reviews, SOC2, and enterprise SSO/SCIM rollouts.
  • Communicate clearly with both execs and engineers - written design docs are your default, not an afterthought.

Extra credit

  • Prior experience with LLM or agentic frameworks (LangChain, DSPy, ReAct).
  • Contributions to open-source integration tooling, SDKs, or CLIs.
  • Familiarity with ERP, CRM, or data-warehouse ecosystems (SAP, Snowflake, Databricks).

Why Dialtone?

  • Front-row seat to AGI-era systems - deploy agents that reinvent how enterprises work.
  • High leverage - customer-facing autonomy plus direct influence on core product.
  • Competitive comp + meaningful equity - you win when the company wins.
  • Work style - Onsite in Mountain View, CA.
  • Hardware stipend • full health/vision/dental • 401(k) match • unlimited PTO.

We move fast: you’ll meet the founders within a week.

Join us to bring agentic automation from concept to production - one transformative deployment at a time. 🚀

About Dialtone

Dialtone empowers enterprises to turn cross-functional and cross-system work into intelligent, self-running workflows. Leading companies across technology, sports & entertainment, healthcare, finance, and retail rely on Dialtone Agents to accelerate both internal operations and customer-facing processes.

What sets us apart

  • Agentic AI delivered on day one
    Our platform couples cutting-edge AI infrastructure with built-in reliability, security, and observability - so teams can launch production-grade agents in days, not months.

  • White-glove engineering, included
    Dedicated engineering support to help end-to-end, from scoping to launch to continuous optimization - at no extra cost.

  • Success over software
    We measure our impact by real business outcomes, not seat counts. If our agents aren’t moving the needle, we’re not done.

Our growing product suite includes…

  • No-code Agent Builder – design, test, and deploy agents in an intuitive UI anyone can use.
  • Human-in-the-Loop Dashboard – empower employees to seamlessly collaborate with agents when oversight or judgment is needed.
  • Comprehensive API – programmatically create, orchestrate, and monitor agents from your own codebase.
  • Custom Actions – extend agents with your proprietary systems and workflows, securely.
  • Integrations Library – pre-built data and action connectors to the SaaS tools you already depend on.
Dialtone
Founded:2023
Batch:S23
Team Size:10
Status:
Active
Founders
Akash Kashyap
Akash Kashyap
Founder