Retell AI
1 open Forward Deployed Engineer role at Retell AI. Curated with comp bands.
Comp on the board: $215K–$290K.
On the board since Jul 2026 · still hiring
Our take
Why Retell AI
Voice AI with absurd ARR-per-head and top-5% cash — a senior FDE seat where enterprise CRM/ERP integrations are the job.
- FDE type
- True forward-deployed
- Travel
- Medium
- Comp
- Top of market
- Stage
- Growth-stage
A good fit if you're…
- Full-stack engineers (Python/JS) who've wired systems into CRMs and ERPs
- People energized by lean teams and fast-moving enterprise demand
- Candidates who want startup scope without a startup pay cut
What they do
Retell builds a platform for AI voice agents — the phone calls behind contact centers, scheduling, collections, and support. Developers and enterprises use it to deploy agents that handle real inbound and outbound calls at scale.
What “forward deployed” means here
You lead enterprise voice-agent projects from prototype to production: designing call flows, building integrations with customers' CRMs and ERPs, and making agents reliable on real telephony. Voice is unforgiving — latency, interruptions, and edge cases show up live — so the FDE owns quality, not just integration.
Comp & leveling
$215K–$290K for 3+ years of experience, and the company says it pays in the top 5th percentile. That's high cash for a growth-stage YC company and compares favorably with larger AI app players for the same seniority.
Growth signals
The board cites $36M ARR with a team of around 20 — one of the leanest revenue-per-head stories in the FDE census. The risk is a crowded voice-AI market and thin headcount; the upside is that a small team this efficient rarely wastes FDE hires on low-value work.
Analysis updated 2026-09-23
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