Founding Forward Deployed Engineer

About the Role

What You'll Do

What We're Looking For

Compensation & Benefits

Location

• On-site in New York City, United States.

Qualifications

• At least 3 years of experience in a technical, customer-facing role, such as forward deployed engineering, solutions engineering, or software engineering with substantial customer exposure.
• Strong SQL and dbt skills, with experience navigating undocumented data warehouse schemas.
• A degree in statistics, mathematics, computer science, or a comparable quantitative field, plus applied data science or machine learning experience.
• Knowledge of distributions, seasonality, validation design, calibration, and modeling.
• Experience building custom agent setups beyond default implementations.
• Ability to resolve conflicting business definitions through customer interviews and data validation, and to define metrics and demonstrate business outcomes.
• Compensation & Benefits
• Base salary: $180,000 to $250,000 USD annually. Visa sponsorship is not available.
• Location
• On-site in New York City, United States.

Preferred Qualifications

• Careful, evidence-driven problem solving, comfort with ambiguity, and a stable employment history. Founder experience is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Work with revenue and operations leaders to understand business goals and identify high-value problems to solve.
• Lead customer onboarding, scope data access, and map undocumented warehouse schemas to business concepts.
• Interview customer data and business teams to establish consistent definitions and validate data mappings.
• Build customer-facing signals and workflows, including the agent systems behind them, and diagnose issues with their outputs.
• Define success measures with customers and build analyses that assess delivered business impact.
• Create reusable validation frameworks, evaluation harnesses, and mapping tools based on deployment learnings.
• At least 3 years of experience in a technical, customer-facing role, such as forward deployed engineering, solutions engineering, or software engineering with substantial customer exposure.
• Strong SQL and dbt skills, with experience navigating undocumented data warehouse schemas.
• A degree in statistics, mathematics, computer science, or a comparable quantitative field, plus applied data science or machine learning experience.
• Knowledge of distributions, seasonality, validation design, calibration, and modeling.
• Experience building custom agent setups beyond default implementations.
• Ability to resolve conflicting business definitions through customer interviews and data validation, and to define metrics and demonstrate business outcomes.
• Careful, evidence-driven problem solving, comfort with ambiguity, and a stable employment history. Founder experience is a plus.
• Base salary: $180,000 to $250,000 USD annually. Visa sponsorship is not available.
• On-site in New York City, United States.