Forward Deployed Engineer
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 23, 2026. First seen by Alion on Sep 6, 2026.
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.
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, and occasionally a whole new feature - whatever it takes to make the workflow work at that customer
You might be a fit if
- You have several years building and shipping software, such as; 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
- You're pragmatic about craft, meaning that 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. 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.
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.
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.
Are you 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? Apply directly at https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/brickanta/jobs/2fZBSaD-forward-deployed-engineer.