Clera

Forward Deployed Engineer

New York
Level
Senior
Work type
Remote · US only

Not stated in the posting: salary, visa.

Open. First seen 31 October 2026.

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About the role

About the Role

Join an early-stage enterprise AI infrastructure team as its technical lead for customer engagements across the UK and Europe. You will connect customer needs with product and engineering, guiding enterprise deployments of AI systems that depend on reliable, governed business data.

What You'll Do

  • Lead customer discovery to understand data architectures, operating constraints, and deployment requirements.
  • Scope and deliver proofs of value from technical validation through production commitments.
  • Run product demonstrations, address technical objections, and discuss architecture with senior engineering and business stakeholders.
  • Develop repeatable materials and approaches for discovery, demonstrations, objection handling, and reference architectures.
  • Turn customer edge cases and technical constraints into actionable product feedback for engineering.
  • Partner with machine learning and infrastructure teams to deliver deployments aligned with customer requirements.
  • Travel regularly to customer sites across the UK and Europe.

What We're Looking For

  • At least 5 years of professional experience, including 2 to 3 years in hands-on engineering or data work.
  • A record of personally converting enterprise B2B software proofs of value into production commitments, including experience with procurement, security reviews, and multi-stakeholder buying processes.
  • Strong knowledge of data warehouses, ETL or ELT pipelines, and data governance in enterprise environments.
  • Experience leading technical discovery and demos with enterprise stakeholders, and delivering proofs of concept through production deployment.
  • Working knowledge of production LLM and agentic systems, including their current capabilities and limitations.
  • Ability to prototype with Python or SQL and communicate customer needs clearly to engineering teams.
  • Experience with knowledge graphs, semantic layers, ontologies, entity resolution, regulated or air-gapped deployments, or multiple European markets is valuable.
  • Comfort with ambiguity and startup environments; multilingual ability is a plus.

Location

Hybrid, based in New York, United States, with regular travel to customer sites across the UK and Europe.

What this role asks for

Particular to this role

Data Warehousing · ETL · SQL

Rare in Clera's other 207 open postings.

Standard for solutions / sales engineering roles

Python

Common in solutions / sales engineering postings at any company.

Compared with Clera's other open jobs.

The team: Engineering HIRES STEADILY

This role is one of 206 open in Engineering. 140 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 (99 of 206), TypeScript (90 of 206), Python (87 of 206), React (76 of 206), Machine Learning (48 of 206), JavaScript (37 of 206), PostgreSQL (36 of 206)

OTHER ROLES ON THIS TEAM

From the team and dates on Clera's own job board.

Posting history

Reposted once since 23 October 2026: a posting for this role in New York was taken down and the role was posted again.

  • 31 October 2026 – open (this posting)
  • 23 October 2026 – closed 30 October 2026

Salary context

209 other open postings titled Forward Deployed Engineer state a salary: median USD 160,000 to USD 220,000 a year.

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