Field AI Engineer Job at JFrog (Sunnyvale)

Job Description

At JFrog, we’re reinventing DevOps to help the world’s greatest companies innovate. This role is modeled on the Forward Deployed Engineer archetype pioneered by companies like OpenAI and Anthropic, but with a twist. Where traditional FDEs embed with a single customer, you embed with the entire ecosystem. Your customer is the SF AI community. Your deliverable is intelligence. You'll represent our company as a peer, not a pitch. Everything you learn feeds directly back into our product, strategy, and roadmap.

Job Responsibility

Attend AI meetups, research demos, hackathons, and conferences across the SF Bay Area as a consistent, trusted presence
Build a structured view of the AI vendor and startup landscape — what's emerging, what's enterprise-ready, what's overhyped
Run a regular intelligence loop: weekly signal briefs, monthly deep-dives for leadership, and ad hoc alerts when something important surfaces
Identify and track tools, frameworks, and architectural patterns gaining real adoption before they become mainstream
Build authentic relationships with AI researchers, startup founders, enterprise architects, and practitioners — as a peer, not a vendor
Become a known and trusted voice in the SF AI scene
someone people want to loop in, not avoid
Maintain a living network map of who's building what, who's thinking about what problems, and where the interesting work is happening
Get hands-on with new tools, APIs, and agentic frameworks — prototype and evaluate them firsthand before forming a view
Engage credibly in deep technical conversations about LLMs, RAG architectures, agentic systems, fine-tuning, prompt engineering, and enterprise AI infrastructure
Produce concise technical evaluations: what a tool does, how it works, where it breaks, whether it matters for enterprise
Act as the connective tissue between the external AI world and our internal teams — product, engineering, and leadership
Run regular internal "what's new in AI" sessions to keep the team sharp and ahead of the curve
Partner with product to ensure field learnings shape our roadmap
partner with GTM to sharpen competitive positioning
Occasionally write or speak externally, not on a content treadmill, but when you have something genuinely worth saying

Requirements

4+ years in a technical hands-on role: engineering, ML, solutions engineering, forward-deployed engineering, or similar
Hands-on experience with modern AI/ML tooling: LLMs, RAG pipelines, agentic frameworks (LangChain, LlamaIndex, AutoGen, or equivalent)
Strong Python skills
comfort with APIs, cloud infrastructure, and developer tooling
Demonstrated presence in the AI community — meetups, open-source, writing, speaking, any of it
Based in San Francisco or willing to be deeply embedded here
Technically deep: you've built real things with AI. You can evaluate a new tool in an afternoon, spot architectural tradeoffs immediately, and hold your own in any technical conversation
Genuinely embedded: you're already showing up at SF AI events, or you will be within 30 days of starting. You find energy in these rooms, not obligation
A strong synthesizer: you can take a noisy week of conversations and distill it into three things that actually matter
Enterprise-aware: you understand what it means to deploy AI inside a large organization: procurement, security, integration complexity, change management, organizational politics
Inbound-first: you're more interested in what you can learn from a conversation than what you can say in it
Love bringing the signal back: you enjoy translating external learnings into insights the organization can act on

Nice to have

Prior experience in a forward deployed, field engineering, or developer relations role
An existing network in the SF AI/ML ecosystem
Familiarity with enterprise software procurement and IT buyer personas
Public writing, a newsletter, or a following in the AI space

What we offer

equity package of restricted stock units (RSU)
eligibility to participate in our Employee Stock Purchase Plan
comprehensive benefits including medical, dental, vision, retirement, wellness and much more

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