Forward Deployed Engineer
Most enterprise AI dies in the proof of concept. Forward deployed engineering is how we avoid that: you sit inside the customer's workflow - on site, in the bid room, in the procurement process - and build until the work actually gets done differently.
This is not consulting and it is not a demo role. You ship product. You take a real bottleneck at a real contractor, build the agent workflow that removes it, prove the outcome in numbers, and bring what you learned back into the core platform.
You are the shortest path from a customer problem to working software - and the reason our agents survive contact with the real world.
What you'll do
- Own named accounts end to end: understand the workflow, configure and extend our agents against their real documents and data, and get them into daily use
- Write code - integrations, data pipelines, prompts, evals, glue, and occasionally a whole new feature, whatever it takes to make the workflow work at that customer
- Define what success means before you start, then prove it: hours saved, bids won, risks caught
- Turn what only shows up in production into roadmap - patterns, failure modes and reusable building blocks that make the next deployment faster than the last
You might be a fit if
- You have several years building and shipping software - Python and/or TypeScript, APIs, data pipelines, databases and SQL
- You're comfortable with LLMs and modern AI tooling; we operate as an AI-first company
- You've worked directly with customers, or you have a clear appetite for it
- You go to where the work happens - site visits, bid rooms, warehouses - instead of guessing from a backlog
- You write clearly. At Brickanta, writing creates clarity and everything important gets documented
- You're pragmatic about craft: you know when to hack and when to build it properly
- You're comfortable with ambiguity, and with being the only engineer in the room
- You speak Swedish and English
Construction, real estate or industrial experience is a strong plus. We're looking for engineers who like customers, and customer-facing people who actually ship - the unusual profile matters more than the perfect CV.
What success looks like
- Deployments reach daily use instead of stalling after the pilot
- Every customer engagement ends with a number attached to it
- The second deployment is faster than the first, because you turned the first into building blocks
- The product roadmap reflects what's actually breaking in the field
This seat sits close to everything - product, AI engineering and the customer. It can grow toward leading deployments and a team of FDEs, or inward toward core AI and platform engineering, depending on where you become most effective.
The practical details
Mid to senior; we care more about what you've built than about years. On-site as default at Linnégatan 89B, Stockholm, with meaningful time at customers. Competitive salary and equity - you're early enough for it to matter. Start as soon as you can.
Process
Intro call, 15-20 minutes. A practical case - a short task or working session that reflects the actual job. Then come to the office and meet the team. Fast process, quick feedback at every stage.
Keen on doing your life's work - bringing one of the world's largest and most impactful industries, the $15 trillion construction industry, into the AI era? Send us an email at carrers@brickanta.com or apply directly at https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/brickanta/jobs/2fZBSaD-forward-deployed-engineer.
About Brickanta
Brickanta (Brickanta.com) is the AI-native agentic platform for construction bid analysis, cost estimation and procurement. Brickanta's industry know-how AI raises margins and saves time by leveraging historical estimates, tender documents, and project data - so builders can focus on building. The founding team has been building with AI since 2018 and brings deep experience applying AI in construction and industrial sectors. Brickanta has raised over $8M in external funding from leading investors, including Northzone, Anton Osika and Mario Götze.