Founding Forward Deployed Engineer
Description
About the Role
Join an early-stage B2B SaaS team building AI-powered tools for revenue operations. As a founding deployment engineer, you will connect enterprise data environments to production agent workflows and help turn customer business knowledge into reliable data models.
What You'll Do
Lead customer onboarding from data access planning through exploration of undocumented warehouses and mapping schemas to business concepts such as churn, expansion, and recurring revenue.
Interview customer stakeholders, resolve conflicting business definitions, and encode them in validated SQL queries and semantic models.
Deploy platform workflows and agent pipelines in customer environments, then monitor their performance and business outcomes.
Manage several customer engagements concurrently, balancing direct collaboration with customer teams and focused data engineering work.
Use internal agent tools and share feedback on evaluation safeguards, validation frameworks, and agent infrastructure.
What We're Looking For
Two to five years of experience in forward-deployed engineering, data science, or customer-facing software engineering.
Experience owning technical customer deployments end to end and independently shipping production code, data pipelines, or systems.
Strong SQL and data warehouse skills, including the ability to investigate legacy or undocumented schemas and validate results.
Working knowledge of Python, dbt, LLMs, AI agents, signal engineering, and evaluation frameworks.
Data science or machine learning experience, or academic grounding in statistics, mathematics, applied mathematics, computer science, or another quantitative STEM field.
Comfort with customer-facing work, detailed and repetitive data verification, and adapting technical recommendations based on evidence.
Experience in an early-stage startup, consulting, or another resourceful environment is valuable.
Compensation & Benefits
Base salary is $180,000 to $250,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is available.
Location
On-site, five days per week in New York, New York, United States.
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