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Founding Forward Deployed Engineer

New York
Salary
$180,000 - $250,000 annually
Level
Mid
Work type
Remote · US only
Visa
Not offered

Open. First seen 22 October 2026.

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About the role

About the Role

Join an early-stage B2B SaaS team as the technical owner of customer deployments, working across data engineering, applied AI, and customer success. You will turn complex customer data and business goals into trusted systems and build reusable tools that help future deployments move faster.

What You'll Do

  • Work with revenue and operations leaders to understand business goals and identify high-value problems to solve.
  • Lead customer onboarding, scope data access, and map undocumented warehouse schemas to business concepts.
  • Interview customer data and business teams to establish consistent definitions and validate data mappings.
  • Build customer-facing signals and workflows, including the agent systems behind them, and diagnose issues with their outputs.
  • Define success measures with customers and build analyses that assess delivered business impact.
  • Create reusable validation frameworks, evaluation harnesses, and mapping tools based on deployment learnings.

What We're Looking For

  • At least 3 years of experience in a technical, customer-facing role, such as forward deployed engineering, solutions engineering, or software engineering with substantial customer exposure.
  • Strong SQL and dbt skills, with experience navigating undocumented data warehouse schemas.
  • A degree in statistics, mathematics, computer science, or a comparable quantitative field, plus applied data science or machine learning experience.
  • Knowledge of distributions, seasonality, validation design, calibration, and modeling.
  • Experience building custom agent setups beyond default implementations.
  • Ability to resolve conflicting business definitions through customer interviews and data validation, and to define metrics and demonstrate business outcomes.
  • Careful, evidence-driven problem solving, comfort with ambiguity, and a stable employment history. Founder experience is a plus.

Compensation & Benefits

Base salary: $180,000 to $250,000 USD annually. Visa sponsorship is not available.

Location

On-site in New York City, United States.

The team: Engineering HIRES STEADILY

This role is one of 406 open in Engineering. 340 were posted in the last 30 days and the oldest in March: a team that hires all year rather than one being built.

WHAT THE TEAM WORKS WITH, ACROSS ITS POSTINGS

LLM (170 of 406), Python (170 of 406), TypeScript (159 of 406), React (126 of 406), Machine Learning (98 of 406), PostgreSQL (74 of 406), JavaScript (69 of 406)

OTHER ROLES ON THIS TEAM

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Other openings for this role

6 open postings for this role in New York, first posted 7 October 2026. The company is likely hiring for more than one position. None has been taken down and posted again.

Salary context

16 other open postings titled Founding Forward Deployed Engineer state a salary: median USD 160,000 to USD 250,000 a year.

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