Lead Forward Deployed Engineer

Customer & Solutions · San Francisco · FullTime · Lead level This role puts a senior engineer inside customer sites during the week to learn how their quoting and purchasing really work, then configure the platform to fit. A strong candidate has owned customer-facing technical projects with clear results, writes production TypeScript, React-style frontends and Postgres queries every week, and can make scoping calls alone. They also lead other forward deployed engineers and can say no to customer asks that would not help. How it fits the AI era The platform uses AI to take over repetitive work like reading emails, building quotes and chasing sourcing, so the engineer spends less time on manual data handling and more on shaping how automation behaves in each business. What stays human is earning trust with procurement teams and executives, deciding what to build first, and judging when an automated answer is not good enough to send. How it builds AI experience Someone in this role would gain hands-on time deploying AI automations into real defense, aerospace and industrial supply chains, using the company's own configuration tooling. To build the same experience beforehand, try automating a messy email-to-quote or purchasing workflow with an LLM, and note where it fails and how a person should review it. Worth showing Customer-facing delivery with measurable results Production TypeScript and React Postgres and SQL Mentoring or managing engineers Scoping and trade-off decisions This is our own read, written from the employer's posting and the company's Spotlight. The employer's posting is the source of truth for the role. About SalesPatriot Per the company, SalesPatriot builds an AI-native platform that automates quoting, sourcing, and order management for defense, aerospace, and industrial distributors and OEMs. #J-18808-Ljbffr