Forward Deployed Engineer

Manifold Labs is building the backbone of permissionless intelligence — a global compute market where companies and individuals can access world-class hardware at best-in-class pricing.

Our flagship product, Targon, is a permissionless, verifiably confidential AI cloud. It serves thousands of users with high-performance AI infrastructure, including B300s, B200s, H200s, H100s and RTX Pro 6000s. Security is at the core of everything we build, leveraging NVIDIA Confidential Computing and Intel TDX to power our own Targon Virtual Machine (TVM) and TargonOS to keep enterprise data encrypted at rest, in transit, and even while it is being processed. We are a small team focused on engineering excellence, backed by a $10.5M Series A, and we are now scaling Targon, Sybil, and the rest of our ecosystem to enterprise customers.

We're hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) to sit at the intersection of engineering and go-to-market. You'll work across our product suite as the technical bridge between customers and our engineering team. You'll be deeply hands-on with the stack, credible in front of buyers, and the person who translates real customer needs into shipped solutions. This is a hybrid role for someone who is genuinely strong on both sides: technically capable across the full stack, and equally comfortable presenting to a room, joining a sales call, and translating customer needs into something we can ship.

You'll be focused on:

Serving as the primary technical liaison between the engineering and sales teams, owning the translation of customer requirements into engineering work and vice versa.

Joining sales calls and customer meetings as the technical authority — running demos, scoping integrations, answering deep architecture questions about Targon, TVM, attestation and confidential compute.

Scoping customer requirements and translating them into concrete technical solutions, integrations, and deployments on Targon.

Building prototypes, integrations, and tooling that get customers to value quickly, from API integration with the Targon Cloud to standing up confidential workloads.