# Founding Forward Deployed Engineer

About the Role Own customer deployments from initial data access through delivery of a trusted system with measurable business outcomes. This founding role sits at the intersection of data engineering, applied AI, and customer success, while also building reusable tools and frameworks to improve future deployments. What You'll Do Partner with revenue and operations leaders to understand business objectives and decide what is worth building. Lead customer onboarding, scope data access, and map undocumented warehouse schemas to business concepts. Interview customer data and business teams to establish clear definitions and validate the resulting ontology. Build customer-facing signals and workflows, including the agent setups behind them, and diagnose issues in their outputs. Agree on success measures and develop analysis that demonstrates delivered impact, including clear explanations when outcomes fall short. Turn deployment learnings into reusable validation frameworks, evaluation harnesses, and mapping tools. What We're Looking For At least 3 years of experience in a technical, customer-facing role such as forward deployed engineering, solutions engineering, or software eng

- **Id**: 4320173
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/clera-founding-forward-deployed-engineer-28>
- **Role**: Solutions
- **Role family**: Solutions
- **Seniority**: middle
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: remote
- **Remote scope**: stated_countries
- **Remote scope basis**: posting_text
- **Hiring geo confidence**: inferred
- **Locations**: New York, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 1
- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Visa sponsorship**: yes
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-14T17:05:59Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-14
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-14T19:35:39Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 2221
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no

## Company

- **Id**: 2706
- **Name**: Clera
- **Domain**: getclera.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/clera>
- **Size band**: 11-50
- **Is staffing agency**: yes
- **Employer type**: agency
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 80
- **Open postings**: 40
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 1
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 6
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-14T05:58:10Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 180000
- **Max**: 250000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 250000

## Technologies

- **dbt** — Optional: no
- **LLM Evaluation** — Optional: no
- **Machine Learning** — Optional: no
- **SQL** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country
- **New York** — Kind: city

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-14T19:35:39Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: no; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 41; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: Offered visa sponsorship in 41 of its adverts here in 24 months; Filings 12m: 0

## Liveness

- **Score**: 52
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.516
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 6
- **Reasons**: conf:1, agency, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-14T21:33:08Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 250000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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