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Forward-Deployed Engineer

$100k - $150k

Graphed

Were hiring our first forward-deployed engineer — someone who can stand up our AI agents for real customers and be the person those customers talk to. If you like writing code and you like talking to people, you wont have to choose.

What Graphed does

Graphed builds AI agents that run marketing for businesses — managing their ad accounts, generating creative, writing content, and handling SEO — backed by a data warehouse that gives every customer a live view of whats working. We deploy these agents into our customers stack and focus on showing real results quickly.

Were two founders with real revenue and more demand than we can currently onboard. Delivery is our bottleneck, which is why this role exists. Youd be the first person on the team that turns a signed customer into a live, working deployment.

Who youll work with

Youd work closely with both founders, day to day.

Cody Schneider has spent about 10 years in B2B growth, the last 6 in early-stage software. He runs most of our marketing and distribution today, so youd learn that side of the business directly from him.

Max Chehab was the first employee at WorkOS and the second at Hightouch, with a background across infrastructure, data, and product. Hes who youd learn the technical side from.

The two met as early employees at Rupa Health and have spent the last four years building AI marketing products together — a webinar repurposing tool, an early SEO bot, and an ecommerce agent that generated around 20,000 landing pages from keyword data and tuned them using clickstream data. Graphed grew out of that work.

What youll learn

This is hands-on. Youll deploy real marketing systems for real companies every week, sitting between the growth side of the business and the technical platform that powers it.

Youll come out understanding how growth and AI products actually get built — both the engineering side and the distribution that puts them in front of customers. Thats the same combination it takes to start a company, and if you use it to go build your own thing down the line, wed be glad to have been part of that.

What youll actually do
  • Deploy and tune agents in our platform for each new customer — configuring them, connecting them to the customers ad accounts and data sources, and getting them running the way that customer needs.
  • Ship customer dashboards using our deployment tooling, so every client can see their results.
  • Run onboarding and implementation calls — youre the technical point of contact during setup. Youll explain what the agents do, gather what you need, and turn a kickoff call into a working deployment.
  • Be the feedback loop between customers and the founders — youll see what breaks, what customers actually want, and what we should build next.

You wont be building the core platform itself — thats the founders job. Youll be the one who makes it work in the real world, customer by customer.

What were looking for

This is an early-career role, so we care more about how sharp and resourceful you are than about years on a résumé.

  • You can work in a codebase. Youve shipped things — at a job, an internship, or your own projects — and youre comfortable reading and writing code, working with APIs, and figuring out an unfamiliar system on your own.
  • Youre good with people. You can get on a call with a customer, explain something technical in plain language, and leave them feeling looked after.
  • You move fast and own outcomes. When something breaks before a customer goes live, you want to be the one who fixes it.
  • You like to learn. Our stack and our customers needs change often, and youre comfortable with that.
Nice to have (genuinely optional)
  • Experience with ad platforms (Meta Ads, Google Ads) or marketing in general
  • Hands-on time with LLMs, prompting, or AI agents
  • Experience working directly with customers or clients
  • Familiarity with SQL or data tooling

If youve got the fundamentals but none of these, apply anyway.

Compensation & logistics
  • Salary: $100,000–$150,000, depending on experience and location
  • Equity: meaningful early-stage equity — youd be one of our first hires
  • Location: Remote, anywhere in North America with timezone overlap
  • Start: as soon as you can
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