Company Overview
The company is a fast-growing technology organization that embeds engineering talent directly within customer environments to address complex operational and data challenges. It partners with enterprises to design, develop, and scale mission-critical applications that deliver measurable business outcomes. The business has grown to approximately $25 million in revenue through bootstrapped operations and has secured $6.7 million in funding to support its continued expansion.
Job Description
The Forward Deployed Engineer will work directly with customers to solve complex business and operational challenges through the development of high-impact software applications. The role involves collaborating with customer stakeholders to understand mission-critical objectives, transform enterprise data into practical workflows, and deliver tools that support decision-making across executive and operational teams.
The engineer will rapidly design, build, and deploy applications, often developing systems from the ground up. This position requires a combination of software engineering expertise, analytical problem-solving, and customer collaboration to modernize business operations and deliver measurable results.
Responsibilities
- Work closely with customer stakeholders to understand critical business objectives and translate them into effective technical solutions.
- Architect, develop, and maintain applications that operationalize enterprise data and generate measurable business outcomes.
- Build end-to-end workflows using large structured and unstructured datasets in production environments.
- Rapidly develop and iterate on applications, including building systems from scratch to address customer challenges.
- Collaborate with executives, operational teams, and cross-functional stakeholders to deploy tools that improve business processes.
- Independently manage projects and take ownership of delivery, implementation, and long-term success.
- Work directly within customer environments when necessary, providing technical expertise and implementation support.
- Travel to customer sites, typically 10–33% of the time depending on project requirements.
- Work in a hybrid or on-site environment at company offices or customer locations during important deployment phases.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.
- 1–5 years of experience as a full-stack engineer, data engineer, or forward deployed engineer.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to break down complex challenges into practical, production-ready solutions.
- Proficiency in Python and/or TypeScript.
- Demonstrated experience building applications that use large datasets in real-world production environments.
- Proven ability to deliver measurable outcomes through software development, data science, or technical analytics work.
- Ability to work independently, manage projects end-to-end, and take ownership of technical outcomes.
- Strong collaboration skills when working with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills for working directly with customers and internal teams.
- Willingness to travel approximately 10–33% of the time for customer implementations.
- Interest in working in a hybrid, in-person environment and visiting customer sites as required.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with enterprise data and AI platforms, including Foundry and AIP.
- Experience delivering production machine learning or large language model (LLM)-based solutions.
- Experience building production-ready frontend applications using React.
- Familiarity with Apache Spark, distributed computing, or large-scale data processing frameworks.
Work Environment and Additional Information
- Hybrid work arrangement with in-person collaboration at company offices and customer locations.
- Travel requirements typically range from 10–33%, depending on project needs.
- The role may involve working from offices in New York, London, Washington, D.C., or Denver, as well as customer sites during implementation phases.
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