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Lead Forward Deployed Engineer

  • Office
  • 6+ years

Salary

$150,000 - 200,000/ year

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Description

The Mission

The West'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 supply-chain superintelligence that makes aerospace, electronics, industrial, and defense operations nearly autonomous. Faster quoting. Faster procurement. End-to-end supply chain visibility.

Quick Facts

Top 5% growth in batch

Team of 20 co-live in our Warsaw & SF Hacker Houses

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 the company.

Iterate. Take full ownership of the customer's outcome. Keep finding and killing their most pressing problems, leading org-wide scaling, until the company is the operating system their business runs on.

Lead. Run the FDEs on your accounts. Set their priorities, review their work, and get them to where they can run an implementation without you.

Requirements

  • You've owned customer-facing technical work before and can point to results you delivered.
  • You own the account. You set technical direction with the customer's executives and IT, decide what gets built first, and tell them no when they're asking for the wrong thing.
  • You make scoping and trade-off calls on your own, without waiting for sign-off.
  • You've mentored or managed engineers. Here you're accountable for the FDEs on your accounts hitting their outcomes.
  • Strong full-stack engineer: TypeScript, at least one frontend framework (React, Svelte, Next, etc), and SQL, preferably Postgres. You still ship production code every week.
  • You can earn trust with procurement specialists while navigating executive priorities and IT constraints.
  • Ready to travel every week and relocate full-time to San Francisco. This is not a remote role.
  • Absolute grinder. Interested in co-living (though not required).
  • Low ego, curious, intellectually honest.
  • The Process
  • Call with engineer → 1hr technical test → Call with founder → fly out to SF HQ (on us) → offer.
  • Experience: 3+ years
  • Visa: US citizen/visa only

Where you’d work

From the office

The office

No visa sponsorship

You must already be able to work in the United States

About the company

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Office in San Francisco, United States

Your chances

Still hiring, not crowded yet, and a person reads your message.

  • 19 checks run
  • 8 good signs
  • 2 red flags

Still hiring?

12 checks

Actively hiring

In its favour4

  • Still on the company's own careers site, checked 4 h agoModerate evidence
  • Specific about the basics: pay, place, level, stack and contract all statedSlight evidence
  • States its salarySlight evidence
1 moreFewer
  • A hiring contact is attached to itSlight evidence

Against it1

  • Posted 4 weeks ago, older than 76% of the open roles we trackSlight evidence

How crowded?

7 checks

Low

In its favour4

  • You can message the hiring contact and skip the queueModerate evidence
  • In the office in San Francisco: only people nearby can take itSlight evidence
  • Only for people already authorized to work in United StatesSlight evidence
1 moreFewer
  • Lead level: far fewer people qualifySlight evidence

Against it1

  • Open for 4 weeks: applications have had time to pile upModerate evidence

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Details13 facts · Role, Location, Compensation, Employment
Tech stack
  • React
  • TypeScript
  • SQL
  • PostgreSQL
Seniority
Lead
Type
Full-time
Specialty
Forward Deployed
Region
United States
Pay period
Annual
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Role

Category
Solutions & Support
Specialty
Forward Deployed
Seniority
Lead
Experience
3+ years
Tech stack
  • React
  • TypeScript
  • SQL
  • PostgreSQL

Location

Work model
Office
Region
United States
Office
  • San Francisco, United States
Visa sponsorship
Not sponsored
Must already work in
  • United States

Compensation

Salary
$150,000 - 200,000 / year
Pay period
Annual

Employment

Type
Full-time

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