Linkup
Founding Forward Deployed Engineer
8mo ago
USASeniorapiintegrationmachine learningprototypetechnical discoveryautomation
A cross-functional engineering role focused on integrating AI search APIs with customers and collaborating on product and marketing strategies.
About the company
- Reality never stands still, and neither should intelligence. Linkup reconnects language models to a living stream of verified facts, ensuring AIs remain as current and insightful as the world they serve.
- Our mission is to deliver the world’s freshest, most trusted knowledge to AIs.
- We are small technical team, working shoulder to shoulder to build the web of agents.
- A bit more about our 3 co-founders:
- Philippe Mizrahi - Led the development of Lyft’s Autonomous Vehicles marketplace. Previously launched Amundsen , an open source search engine.
- Denis Charrier - Founding Engineer at Niland, an audio search company (acquired by Spotify), then Staff Engineer at Spotify. 15y of software development experience.
- Boris Toledano - Led robotics at Carrefour, after 3y at McKinsey & Co working on public affairs and digital transformation.
Responsibilities
- We’re looking for a top-tier Forward Deployed Engineer to join Linkup and work hand-in-hand with our founders, customers, and partners. This is our first hire at this role.
- Your mission: help leading AI companies, developers, and enterprises integrate Linkup’s AI-ready search APIs into their products — and shape how the next generation of AI agents connects to the web.
- This is a highly cross-functional role. You’ll operate at the intersection of engineering, GTM, and customer success , turning technical integrations into insights that drive our product roadmap, marketing narratives, and outbound strategy.
- You’ll be the connective bridge between what customers build with Linkup and how we tell that story to the world.
Other
- Work directly with customers and partners to design, prototype, and deploy integrations of Linkup’s APIs into real-world agentic systems.
- Participate in pre-sales efforts — technical discovery, proof-of-concept design, demo environments.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with backend, ML, and product teams to ensure performance and reliability at scale.
- Partner with the GTM Engineer and DevRel team to turn customer learnings into automation, tutorials, and playbooks.
- Identify and implement technical integrations with our other partners ****in the value chain (workflow orchestration, AI frameworks, etc.)
- Translate complex technical concepts into clear explanations for both developers and business audiences.
- Every integration you build helps define how AI systems connect to live, trusted information .
- You’ll operate on the frontier between customers and product — bringing the voice of the field into everything we build and say.
- Your work will inform:
- The stories we tell in marketing.
- The use cases we automate in our GTM systems.
- The features we prioritize in our roadmap.
- If you love blending engineering with impact — building things users actually depend on — this role is for you.
- 4+ years in technical support engineering , software engineering , or solutions engineering , with direct application development experience.
- Strong API integration skills — able to design and debug REST/JSON payloads, manage auth flows, and optimize latency.
- Understand web infrastructure, distributed systems, or retrieval pipelines.
- Are comfortable debugging integrations and solving ambiguous technical challenges in customer environments.
- Communicate clearly and empathetically with both technical and business audiences.
- Are curious about AI infrastructure, retrieval, and the emerging agentic ecosystem.
- Thrive in a fast-paced, high-ownership startup environment.
- Help a partner integrate Linkup’s /search endpoint into their multi-agent workflow.
- Build a proof-of-concept combining a customer’s private data with Linkup’s real-time web results.
- Collaborate with the backend team to improve SDK telemetry and enterprise deployment reliability.
- Work with the GTM team to turn successful integrations into published use cases and reference architectures.
- Identify recurring customer needs that can become productized templates or automation.
- We believe in a future of AI agents and the agentic web . These digital entities can create more value for humanity than we ever could alone, but they depend on the internet to operate, collaborate, take action, and gather information.
- AI agents need web search . To perform well, they require information that is current, reliable, and context‑specific—not the diffuse, steadily aging knowledge frozen at their last training cut‑off.
- Modern web search is built for humans, not AIs . Instead of trusted facts, it serves links, ads, and click‑bait. People want visually engaging pages; AI systems need structured truth. An AI can absorb oceans of data, while human attention barely skims the surface. Humans think visually and intuitively; AI reasons in latent space.
- Web 2.0 is sunsetting . The deck is being reshuffled, and the Bing‑Google search oligopoly is crumbling. Indexing ever more pages is no longer the goal; semantically organizing facts for AI systems is. In the coming agentic web, Google’s ad‑driven model has no natural home.
- Search for AI must be rebuilt from the ground up . We are reconstructing the web as a rigorously structured knowledge layer, mapping every concept, entity, and claim into a coherent semantic graph. This foundation delivers verified facts and rich context to AI instantly, unlocking faster reasoning, higher accuracy, and radically more useful answers for everyone.
- Our culture is built on the following values:
- Mission . We believe we play a critical role in building the agentic web. We are 100% committed to our mission of bringing the reality of the world to AI agents.
- Speed . We build fast, we build to last. We get things done, well.
- Ownership . We empower every team member to take ownership of their projects, ensuring they see them through to successful completion.
- Teamwork . Our strength lies in our unity. We rely on one another and embrace our diversity as a core asset.
- Humility . We maintain low egos, showing respect for others and continuously learning from their insights and experiences.
- We expect all team member to take an active role in shaping our company culture.