Forward Deployed Engineer

Role Description

We're hiring Forward Deployed Engineers (FDEs) to sit at the intersection of our product and our customers' hardest problems. You'll embed with customer teams, understand their workflows deeply, and build, configure, and deploy solutions on top of our platform that actually move the needle. This isn't traditional implementation work — you'll write production code, design data pipelines, and ship features that often make their way back into the core product.

What you'll do:

• Spend significant time on-site (or deeply async) with customer teams — engineers, analysts, operators, executives — to figure out what's actually broken and what's worth building.
• Prototype quickly, then harden what works: data integrations, internal tools, ML pipelines, custom UIs, automation.
• Own outcomes end-to-end, from the first whiteboard session to the version running in production six months later.
• Bring real signal back to our product and engineering teams, advocating for the platform changes that would have made your job easier.
• Figure out the problem without a clean spec — understanding the problem is half the work.

Qualifications

• Strong generalist engineering chops — comfortable across the stack: backend services, data work, frontend when needed, infra when forced.
• Customer instinct — able to ask the right questions and translate feedback into something buildable.
• High agency and tolerance for ambiguity — make decisions and ship solutions without waiting for permission.
• Bias toward shipping — prefer a working v0 in front of a user over a perfect design doc.
• Nice to have: prior experience as a founder, early engineer at a startup, consultant at a top firm, or in roles where you owned a customer relationship technically.
• Background in data engineering, ML, or distributed systems.
• Willingness to travel — typically 25-50% depending on the engagement.

Company Description

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