# Founding Senior Manager, Forward Deployed Engineering

Afresh, the AI platform for grocery, began by tackling the most complex problem in the industry: fresh, and has evolved into the core AI platform for grocers. By leveraging proprietary AI designed for high-volatility environments, we empower partners like Albertsons, Meijer, and Wakefern to drive smarter decisions across their entire enterprise. Following record-breaking 70% revenue growth in 2025, we have scaled to 6 enterprise-grade solutions, with solutions live in over 10% of the U.S. grocery market. Our platform now orchestrates billions of decisions from the store floor to the distribution center and prevented over 200 million pounds of food waste last year alone. If you're looking for a role where your work directly translates into massive scale and social good, and you want to be part of the team that defines how the world eats, there is no better time to join us. Location: This is a hybrid role requiring 3 days / week in San Francisco + travel to customers About the Role Afresh is building the team that deploys our AI inside the largest grocers in the US. You'll build and lead the team of forward deployed engineers who embed with our enterprise grocery customers, integrat

- **Id**: 1040527
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/afresh-founding-senior-manager-forward-deployed-engineering>
- **Role**: Solutions
- **Role family**: Solutions
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: San Francisco, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Visa sponsorship**: yes
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-18T17:28:25Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-10-13
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-12T19:36:33Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 55
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 9965
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Continuous learning, Equity, Flexible schedule, Home office, Professional development
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Artificial Intelligence, Food & Beverages, Predictive Analytics, Bakery & Pastry

## Company

- **Id**: 7401
- **Name**: Afresh
- **Domain**: afresh.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/afresh>
- **Size band**: 51-200
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Greenhouse

## Salary

- **Min**: 203745
- **Max**: 275655
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 275655

## Technologies

- **Agentic Workflows** — Optional: no
- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **Databricks** — Optional: no
- **Function Calling** — Optional: no
- **Google BigQuery** — Optional: no
- **LLM** — Optional: no
- **Snowflake** — Optional: no
- **SQL** — Optional: no
- **Knowledge Graph** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 55

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-18T18:51:32Z
- Event: close; At: 2026-09-21T18:10:33Z
- Event: reopen; At: 2026-09-21T19:36:26Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 1 · green card filings: 1; Filings 12m: 1

## Liveness

- **Score**: 55
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.738
- **P room**: 0.75
- **Age days**: 54
- **Expected fill days**: 62
- **Reasons**: conf:3, win:late
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 275655
- **Is top pay**: yes

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