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Forward Deployed Engineer

Compensation
$150,000–$250,000/year

Job Description

At Arga Labs, we embrace FDE as our primary GTM motion. You’ll be working directly with clients to build custom solutions for their testing infrastructure.

You have/are:

  • Previous software development experience (Python backend + TS frontend experience preferred, others ok)
  • Work well with AI coding tools, ships efficiently
  • Understands how to evaluate and refine code (good eye for catching slop)
  • Communication skills, understands how to listen to clients and decipher what they REALLY want
  • Socially active and knows how to read the room

Preferred:

  • Really good at something (we have 2 Team Canada athletes, 1 pro esports player on our team)
  • Doing startups for the love of the game
  • Believes in the vision

The ideal candidate does not need to have a cracked pedigree, though they know they possess the ability to have one.

The ideal candidate should also only write a max 150 word note with: 1. what you’ve built before, 2. thoughts on our company, and optionally 3. something you’re really good at. Long applications will get auto-archived. Thanks :)


Interview Process

take home —> work trial (3 days) —> offer

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Job Details

Category
Aerospace Engineering
Employment Type
Full Time
Location
San Francisco, CA
Posted
Compensation
$150,000 - $250,000 per year

About Arga Labs

We build environments to test your app and agents against the real world. Deploy your code/agent into a sandbox that runs against replicas of external services (Stripe, Slack, Google Drive, etc.). Twins support the same APIs, MCP tool calls & SDKs as the real software, and you can spin up thousands of instances in parallel and seed them using natural language. Run real workflows, surface edge cases, and observe how your code/agents actually behave before hitting production.

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