Forward Deployed Engineer

Department: Engineering

Location: New York

Employment Type: FullTime

About the Role

This is a Forward Deployed Engineer role at a Y Combinator–backed AI startup building agentic platforms for the acquisitions and private equity space. You'll sit at the intersection of customer success and product, owning deployments end-to-end as a core member of a small, high-autonomy team reporting directly to the C-suite.

What You'll Do

• Own customer deployments end-to-end — scoping, business logic translation, data ingestion, pipeline delivery, and ongoing optimization — working directly with mid-market to large-cap operators.

• Build and extend an agentic AI platform in direct collaboration with the core software engineering team.

• Translate complex, real-world business problems into autonomous software solutions.

• Support go-to-market efforts by joining sales calls and identifying customer expansion opportunities.

• Work with high autonomy on analytical problems that demand both technical depth and strong business judgment.

What We're Looking For

• 3+ years of professional experience in consulting, finance, data engineering, or analytics — ideally blending technical and business-facing work.

• Strong proficiency in Python and SQL for data processing, querying, and automation.

• Hands-on experience designing and delivering data pipelines, ETL workflows, and data integration systems end-to-end.

• Familiarity with data warehousing tools and concepts (e.g., Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift) and data modeling for multi-source environments.

• Experience building with LLM APIs and AI tools (e.g., OpenAI, Anthropic, LangChain) — personal projects count.

• Excellent communication and business acumen — comfortable engaging with operators, finance leaders, and non-technical stakeholders.

• Exposure to private equity, roll-ups, M&A, or holding company operations is a strong plus.

• Scrappy, action-oriented, and comfortable operating in ambiguous, fast-moving environments.

• US citizenship required. Visa sponsorship is not available.

Compensation & Benefits

Base salary range: $110,000 – $150,000 USD annually.

Location

On-site in New York, NY, United States.