Cekura, a Y Combinator-backed startup, is building infrastructure for self-improving conversational AI agents. The company provides testing, monitoring, and debugging tools for voice, chat, and web-based AI systems. Their platform catches failures in latency, hallucinations, and tool calls across production workflows.

The Forward Deployed Engineer role sits at the intersection of customer success and product development. This position requires embedding deeply with technical customers to understand agent workflows and build continuous improvement loops. Candidates need 2+ years in technical roles at dev-tools or AI companies, with experience in APIs, SQL, and Python or JavaScript.

Cekura focuses on automating voice agent testing through realistic scenario simulations. Their platform processes thousands of conversational scenarios to uncover edge cases before deployment. The role offers meaningful equity and direct access to founders in San Francisco.

This hiring push reflects growing demand for AI agent reliability tools as more companies deploy conversational interfaces. The Forward Deployed Engineer will essentially define how customer insights translate into product improvements for this emerging infrastructure category.