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Founding Forward Deployed Engineer

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New York

  • $180,000–$250,000 per year
  • Onsite
  • Full Time
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About the role

About the Role

Join an early-stage B2B SaaS team as a Founding Forward Deployed Engineer, owning technical deployments of an AI-powered revenue platform in enterprise customer environments. You will turn complex customer data into verified models and production agent workflows that support measurable revenue outcomes.

What You'll Do

  • Lead customer onboarding by scoping data access, exploring undocumented warehouses, and mapping schemas to business concepts such as churn, expansion, and recurring revenue.

  • Build and validate semantic models by interviewing stakeholders, reconciling definitions, and encoding business logic in verified SQL.

  • Deploy platform workflows and agent pipelines into customer environments, then monitor their performance and outcomes.

  • Manage multiple customer engagements, collaborating with customer data and engineering teams while doing hands-on data work.

  • Use internal agent tooling and share feedback on evaluation guardrails, validation frameworks, and agent infrastructure.

What We're Looking For

  • Two to five years of experience in forward deployed engineering, data science, or customer-facing software engineering.

  • Experience owning end-to-end technical customer deployments and independently shipping production data pipelines or systems.

  • Strong SQL and data warehouse skills, including working with undocumented or legacy schemas and validating results.

  • Proficiency with SQL, dbt, Python, data warehousing, LLMs, AI agents, signal engineering, or evaluation frameworks.

  • A quantitative STEM degree or equivalent foundations, plus experience or academic study in data science, machine learning, statistics, math, or applied math.

  • Customer-facing experience, sound technical judgment, and comfort with detailed, repetitive data verification work.

  • Experience in an early-stage startup, consulting, or another scrappy environment is valuable.

Compensation & Benefits

Base salary: $180,000 to $250,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is available.

Location

On-site, five days per week in New York, New York.