Staff Forward Deployed Engineer

🕒 September 29

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Afresh

51 - 200 employees

Founded 2017

🍽️ Food & Beverage

📦 Logistics

💼 Consulting

Food & Beverage • Logistics • Consulting

Afresh is a technology company that provides innovative solutions for the fresh food grocery sector. Their platform leverages cutting-edge machine learning to optimize ordering, inventory management, and reduce food waste, helping grocery teams to manage fresh produce more efficiently. Afresh aims to transform grocery store operations with best-in-class technology, ensuring fresher displays, faster inventory turns, and increased sales. By enhancing operational efficiency and accuracy, Afresh supports grocers in sustainability goals like reducing greenhouse gas emissions and water usage. The company is committed to sustainably nourishing the world with fresh food.

📋 Description

• Partner with Afresh's account lead and customer technical teams to scope and architect data sources, architecture, and production delivery paths • Embed with customer data and engineering teams remotely and on-site • Integrate into customer cloud and data platforms • Build production-grade pipelines and model messy enterprise data into trustworthy data products • Design and ship production-ready LLM- and agent-powered systems, including retrieval, agentic workflows, data-quality agents, and analytics agents • Harden field learnings into the shared platform's knowledge and grounding layer, agent frameworks, and serving infrastructure • Build evaluations, tracing, and tooling to measure accuracy, hallucination rate, latency, and cost • Create clean interfaces and reusable building blocks rather than one-off customer code • Own the feedback loop between customer deployments and platform improvements

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years building production software and data systems, with strong, production-grade code • Ability to take ambiguous problems and messy data landscapes, design clean and workable solutions, and build them • Production experience building real systems with LLMs and agents, including retrieval/RAG and tool-use • Ability to evaluate AI system quality • Data-engineering experience building and operating data pipelines and modeling messy enterprise data • Experience with a modern cloud data platform such as Databricks, BigQuery, Snowflake, or similar • Ability to work directly with customer engineers and data teams • Comfort switching between customer-facing work and reusable infrastructure development • Willingness to travel regularly to customer sites (~10-20%) • This position is not eligible for company sponsorship • Remote employees must reside in one of the following states: Alabama, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Michigan, Montana, Missouri, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Texas, Washington, Utah, Virginia, Wisconsin

🏖️ Benefits

• Meaningful early-stage equity • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage for you and your family, with the majority of premiums covered by Afresh • Mental health support and counseling services • 401(k) program with a generous company match • Home office stipend • Coworking Wallets for flexible workspace access • Annual professional development budget • Monthly Betterment wellness/lifestyle stipend • Monthly telecommunications stipend • Flexible paid time off

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