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Principal Forward Deployed Engineer

Unity

San Francisco, CA · full time · Principal

$179,500 – $341,900

Listed on Unity’s own careers site. You apply with them directly — we never stand between you and the employer.

What this role is

A Principal-level software engineer who embeds within non-technical departments to design and deploy AI agents and automated workflows that solve real business problems. This role suits experienced engineers comfortable shipping production code across the stack while collaborating with department leaders to identify where AI creates genuine value.

Our summary, not Unity’s wording. The full posting is on their site.

What they ask for

Required

  • Significant production software engineering experience with services, integrations, data pipelines, and APIs
  • Hands-on experience building and shipping agentic systems with LLMs
  • Experience building with agentic coding tools like Claude or Codex
  • Ability to collaborate effectively with non-engineering stakeholders
  • Comfort operating in ambiguous situations with prototypes over specs
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills

Nice to have

  • Prior Forward Deployed Engineer or solutions engineering experience at a company doing serious AI deployment
  • Experience designing evals and observability for agentic systems in production
  • Familiarity with MCP, tool-calling frameworks, or agent orchestration platforms
  • Internal tooling background

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