Senior Forward Deployed Engineer (Full-Stack) - dscout

At Dscout, we’re building the most flexible and powerful UX research platform on the market—trusted by top brands across finance, healthcare, consumer goods, and tech. Our tools help teams deeply understand the humans behind their products so they can build better ones.

About Dscout AI Training & Evals

Dscout AI Training & Evals builds human data and evals that show whether AI works for real people. For ten years Dscout has captured how people behave in real context, with consent and scientific rigor. We point that engine at AI: turning consented human behavior and judgment into the training data, evals, and benchmarks AI teams trust.

We serve AI researchers, the product builders who ship alongside them, and the research teams who partner with both. We are a new unit inside an established company: live customers, a mature platform (React, Elixir, Python, Swift, Kotlin; SOC 2 and HITRUST certified), a small senior team, and room to build. We work AI-native: agents write code, evals gate changes, and we aim to do in months what used to take years.

Why This Role

• Work directly with AI labs and AI product teams on problems that have no playbook yet.
• Build on a platform that already works, focusing your time on the hard parts rather than the plumbing.
• Own technical decisions on your programs and see your builds become core product.
• Join a small senior team with direct access to the GM, Principal Engineer, and Head of AI Research.

What You Will Do

Our Strategic Project Leads run customer programs from first scoping call to final data delivery. You are their technical partner and builder. Some capabilities our platform already does, some need configuring, and some must be built from scratch. Knowing which is the job.

Scope and Shape Programs

• Turn a fuzzy customer brief into a technical plan in days, alongside the Project Lead.
• Decide what to reuse, extend, or build, and prove the gap before writing code.
• Document the scope: deliverables, mechanics, and edge cases.

Build and Ship

• Build capture flows, task logic, data pipelines, and delivery across web, mobile, and backend.
• Ship production code with real participants on the other end.
• Use coding agents and evals as part of your development workflow, teaching these practices to others.

Build Trust into the Data

• Own redaction, validation, provenance, and clean delivery.
• Design quality checks and human-review paths, measuring their effectiveness.
• Collaborate with the research team to ensure data integrity and evidence backing.

Turn the Field into Product

• Partner with core engineering to move repeat builds into the platform without branching forks.
• Surface customer patterns and help prioritize the long-term platform roadmap.

What You Bring

• 7+ years of experience shipping production full-stack software.
• Experience working directly with technical customers as a forward deployed engineer, solutions engineer, or early founding engineer.
• Proven experience building and operating data pipelines: ingest, clean, redact, and deliver.
• Hands-on experience with AI coding agents (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, or similar) to ship serious software.
• Experience building with LLMs and understanding eval workflows, non-deterministic behaviors, and distribution testing.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, able to explain tradeoffs across researchers and product managers.
• Based in the Bay Area, with occasional travel for customer visits.

Nice to Have

• Experience with human data, labeling, or eval pipelines.
• Mobile or browser-based data capture.
• Experience handling sensitive or regulated data.
• Prior experience as a founder.