Clera

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 7 November 2026.

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About the role

About the Role

Own customer deployments for an early-stage B2B SaaS company, from initial data access through a trusted system that delivers measurable business outcomes. This founding role combines data engineering, applied AI, and customer collaboration, while building reusable tools and practices to make future deployments more effective.

What You'll Do

  • Work with customer revenue and operations leaders to understand business goals and identify valuable 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 custom agent configurations, and diagnose issues with their outputs.
  • Define success measures with customers and build analysis that demonstrates the impact of deployments.
  • Turn deployment learnings into reusable validation frameworks, evaluation harnesses, and mapping tools.

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 engagement.
  • An engineering or data science background, with applied statistics or modeling experience and a degree in statistics, mathematics, computer science, or a comparable quantitative field.
  • Strong SQL and dbt skills, plus experience navigating undocumented data warehouses and resolving inconsistent business definitions.
  • Applied data science knowledge, including distributions, seasonality, validation design, and calibration.
  • Experience building custom agent setups beyond default implementations and defining metrics to demonstrate customer outcomes.
  • Experience at an early-stage startup, or a combination of large-company experience with startup or founder experience. Founder experience is valued.
  • A detail-oriented, evidence-driven approach and comfort with ambiguity and end-to-end ownership.

Compensation & Benefits

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

Location

On-site in New York City, New York.

What this role asks for

Particular to this role

Data Warehousing · SQL · dbt

Rare in Clera's other 299 open postings.

Compared with Clera's other open jobs.

The team: Engineering HIRES STEADILY

This role is one of 349 open in Engineering. 217 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 (169 of 349), TypeScript (163 of 349), React (137 of 349), Python (134 of 349), Supabase (69 of 349), PostgreSQL (68 of 349), Machine Learning (64 of 349)

OTHER ROLES ON THIS TEAM

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Posting history

Reposted 3 times since 7 October 2026: a posting for this role in New York was taken down and the role was posted again.

Salary context

14 other open postings titled Founding Forward Deployed Engineer state a salary: median USD 180,000 to USD 250,000 a year.

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