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Forward Deployment Engineer

Lance is an AI voice agent for hotels that automates guest calls, messages, bookings, and service requests via system integrations.

Location
San Francisco, CA
Company size
2–10
Posted
3d ago
Via
Ashby
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Forward Deployment Engineer · Lance

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Job title
Forward Deployment Engineer
Job location
San Francisco
Job description

Lance (YC W26) builds AI agents that run hotel operations. Reception, sales, housekeeping. We're one of YC's fastest growing companies, scaling to $2.2M contracted.

This role deploys and builds. You put Lance into live hotels, make it work on their actual software, and ship the fix yourself when it breaks. SWE titles are good. Operators who can build are better. Not a support job. Not Member of Technical Staff.

You

1+ years shipping software or deploying it for real customers

Can write code and talk to a GM without a translator

T30 school, or the equivalent in what you have actually done

US authorized, San Francisco

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Lance headquarters

San Francisco, CA

Company size

210 employees

Founded

2026

Total raised

$5,500,000

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