Forward Deployed Engineer

San Francisco, CA or New York, NY (Onsite)
$150,000 – $275,000 Base + Equity

Build AI Systems Directly Alongside the World's Best Investors

We're partnering with a $50M Series A venture-backed AI company building the data infrastructure layer for private equity, private credit, and venture capital firms.

Backed by top-tier investors and led by operators who helped scale category-defining technology companies, the team is tackling a problem far more difficult than building another AI assistant. They're creating the system that allows sophisticated investment firms to unify fragmented institutional knowledge, connect structured and unstructured data, and deploy AI against information that has historically been trapped across documents, spreadsheets, databases, and internal systems.

They're looking for a Forward Deployed Engineer to work directly with customers while remaining deeply hands-on technically.

This role is ideal for engineers who enjoy building production systems but also want to sit at the intersection of product, engineering, and customer outcomes.

What You'll Do

  • Build production-grade solutions on top of customer data

  • Write Python and SQL to connect, transform, reconcile, and operationalize structured and unstructured information

  • Create custom integrations across customer systems, databases, spreadsheets, and internal knowledge repositories

  • Build and deliver technical demonstrations for prospective customers using real-world datasets

  • Work directly with private equity, private credit, and venture capital firms to understand workflows and solve complex data challenges

  • Partner closely with founders and engineers to shape product direction based on customer needs

  • Support customer deployments, evaluations, and implementation efforts

  • Identify repeatable patterns and help determine what should become core product functionality

What We're Looking For

  • 3-8 years of software engineering experience

  • Strong production experience with Python

  • Strong SQL and data modeling skills

  • Experience building and shipping customer-facing software systems

  • Ability to operate independently in ambiguous, fast-moving environments

  • Excellent communication skills and comfort working directly with customers

  • Interest in AI systems, data infrastructure, and technical problem solving

Strong Plus

  • Forward Deployed Engineer experience

  • Full-stack or backend engineering background

  • Experience at AI-native startups or high-growth technology companies

  • Familiarity with LLMs, RAG systems, embeddings, vector databases, or agentic workflows

  • Experience with financial services, private equity, venture capital, or complex enterprise data environments

Why This Opportunity

This is not a traditional solutions engineering role.

You'll be writing code, working directly with customers, influencing product direction, and helping shape how sophisticated organizations deploy AI against some of their most valuable proprietary data.

You'll work alongside founders, engineers, and customers every day while helping build a category-defining company from an early stage.

For engineers who enjoy ownership, customer interaction, and building real systems, it's one of the most unique opportunities in the market today.

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