Boston, MA · open to full-time
Forward Deployed Engineer in Boston
Abhishek Sagar Sanda is a forward deployed engineer who sits with the problem - shipping voice agents, RAG systems, and product surfaces into real call paths and real users, not only into a staging slide.
What a forward deployed engineer does
A forward deployed engineer embeds beside the customer or product team, learns the operational constraint, and owns the path from prototype to production. That means instrumentation, failover, evaluation loops, and the last mile of integration - telephony, data sources, and the UI callers or operators actually use.
As a forward deployed engineer, Abhishek works backward from hard budgets: response windows near 800 milliseconds on live calls, retrieval that cites sources or refuses, and systems that stay up when a model or network path fails. The job is outcomes in the field, measured after deploy.
Field proof from shipped systems
- BitVoice Pay - voice-first Lightning wallet on a live dial-in; end-to-end agent behavior on Twilio, not a mock.
- AutoAce (YC F25) - voice-agent OS for dealerships: latency cut 8.5s → 3.9s, backfilled sessions, three-layer LiveKit fence under real traffic constraints.
- Northeastern University Assistant - RAG over 80,000+ pages with citations for operators who need grounded answers.
- AI Interview Coach IVR - multi-turn coaching on a live call path.
Hire a forward deployed engineer
Based in Boston and available for full-time roles, Abhishek joins teams that need a forward deployed engineer to take AI products from pilot to dependable service - voice, retrieval, and the full stack around them. Related role pages: AI agent engineer, full-stack AI engineer. See selected work, the resume, or book a call.