Founding Forward Deployed Engineer

Description

About the Role

Join an applied AI team in a venture-backed vertical SaaS business, building and deploying solutions for enterprise customers. This founding role will help shape the team's technical approach and its growing forward deployed engineering function.

Responsibilities

• Lead customer discovery and translate business needs into product specifications and AI workflows.
• Own end-to-end technical deployments, from initial build through customer adoption and ongoing maintenance.
• Work on-site with customer leaders and teams to deliver solutions, with deployments that may last several weeks.
• Develop shared data models and workflows that can be productized across verticals.
• Partner with company leaders to define and execute the applied AI strategy.
• Help establish the forward deployed engineering team as it grows.

Requirements

• Four to six years of experience in forward deployed engineering or a related technical, customer-facing role.
• Experience building and deploying AI or software solutions for enterprise B2B clients, including ownership of a deployment from initial development through adoption.
• Strong technical breadth across full-stack engineering, system architecture, data pipelines, LLM application patterns, and AI/ML.
• Substantial enterprise software experience and the ability to translate business needs into technical solutions.
• A bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent experience.
• Comfort with frequent customer travel, approximately 50%, and working on-site for extended deployments.
• Must be a U.S. citizen or permanent resident. Visa sponsorship is not available.

Conditions

Base salary: $200,000 to $250,000 annually. Equity details were not provided.

On-site in Chicago, Illinois, or New York, New York, five days per week. Relocation to either location is an option.