Forward Deployed Engineer
Salespatriot (yc W25)
The Mission
America's industrial base runs on systems built in the 1980s.
Billions of dollars in critical components (F-35 parts, industrial assemblies, electronics, bolts, and hoses) still move through email threads, excel sheets, and disconnected ERPs.
We're replacing that with an AI-native platform that makes aerospace, electronics, industrial, and defense supply-chain operations nearly autonomous. Faster quoting. Faster procurement. Full visibility. Real operational intelligence for the companies our nation depends on.
Quick Facts
- YC W25 company. Top 5% growth in batch
- Raised $10M+ from investors including Paul Graham, SV Angel, Pear VC, and CRV
- Team of 20 co-live in our Warsaw & SF Hacker Houses
- 7 figure ARR transacting ~$50M a week through our system
The Job
- Go. Fly out and plant yourself inside the customer's operation. Weekdays are onsite (Wisconsin, New York, Miami, Los Angeles); weekends we regroup at the SF HQ to debrief and keep building.
- Understand. Map how the company actually operates, from sales and supply chain teams to executives and CEOs. Learn the breakpoints choking their growth and speed.
- Implement. Configure automations within SP Studio tooling so the platform accurately reflects the customer's needs. Build trust and confidence in SalesPatriot.
- Iterate. Take full ownership of the customer's outcome. Keep finding and killing their most pressing problems, leading org-wide scaling, until SalesPatriot is the operating system their business runs on.
What We're Looking For
- Ready to relocate full-time to San Francisco. This is not a remote role.
- Absolute grinder. Interested in co-living (though not required).
- Comfortable with ambiguity and rapid change.
- Track record of shipping fast.
- Full-stack beyond code: comfortable jumping between frontend, backend, and organizational politics — earning trust with procurement specialists while navigating executive priorities and IT constraints.
- Motivated by taking an unknown problem, sinking your teeth in, and coming up with a plan of attack.
- Proficiency in TypeScript, JavaScript, and at least one frontend library (React, Svelte, Next etc).
- Be ready to show us at least one full-stack project you've shipped (GitHub repo / web app / Loom demo video).
- Knowledge of SQL databases, preferably Postgres.
- Personable: clients trust you, like you, and look forward to your updates. You handle the conversation and the code.
- Low ego, curiosity, and intellectual honesty — focused on outcomes, not "being right."
The Process
Call with engineer → 1hr technical test → Call with founder → fly out to SF HQ (on us) → offer.
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