Cartesia
Forward Deployed Engineer
Why it's interesting
Founded by the Stanford AI Lab PhDs who invented State Space Models — now embedding FDEs to push agentic voice into on-prem and VPC enterprise stacks. $180K–$250K + equity for 4 years' backend is mid-band, but the SSM pedigree and Databricks/Index/Lightspeed cap table are the real comp.
The role
Embed directly with enterprise customers to turn Cartesia's real-time multimodal voice models into deployed production solutions, owning discovery through rollout across cloud, VPC, and on-prem environments. Requires 4+ years building production systems, strong backend fundamentals, and comfort navigating enterprise auth/networking/security. Sourced from Plank FDE census (CC BY 4.0); verified on Cartesia's Ashby board.
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