Forward Deployed Engineer
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 25, 2026. First seen by Alion on Oct 21, 2026.
Lunon is an AI-native consulting firm in New York City, backed by General Catalyst. Most companies don't need another deck about AI. They need an engineer who can walk in, understand the operation, and ship. That's what we do: we embed engineers inside the business and stay until the software runs without us.
In the last year we took a steel fabricator from "we think AI could help" to a quoting system their reps use every day. Our open-source research system ranks first on DeepResearch Bench.
The team is young and moves fast. Everyone here has a wide skill set, works with the newest tools as they land, and owns what they ship end to end. Nobody hands you a ticket.
This role builds most of what ships on our next engagement: a private-equity-backed call analytics company with thousands of recorded conversations a day. A Senior Forward Deployed Engineer sets direction. You make it real inside the client's environment.
Fully remote, US-based. Lunon is headquartered in New York City.
Some travel to client sites, a few days at a time, fully covered.
What you'll do
Build the speech and text pipelines, LLM workflows, and integrations the client runs on.
Deploy to the client's cloud, instrument what you ship, and fix what breaks.
Write the tests, evals, and docs that keep it working after the engagement ends.
Learn the client's business fast, and say so early when the plan meets reality.
What you'll need
Experience matters here. We judge it by what you've shipped and kept running, not by a number of years.
You've shipped something with LLMs in it that people actually used.
You've worked inside a codebase you didn't write.
You can show the work: a repo, a demo, or a write-up.
You use AI coding tools every day and judge the result by the system and its output, not the language.
You can travel to client sites and are authorized to work in the US.
Nice to have
Apply even if none of these are true.
You've built with speech-to-text, conversation analytics, or large volumes of unstructured text.
You've integrated with a CRM, a telephony platform, or a data warehouse.
You've shipped a side project to real users and kept it alive.
How we hire
A 30-minute conversation with the team about what you've shipped and what we're building.
A technical deep-dive on one system you owned, from the business problem to production.
A working session on a real client problem with the team.
References, then an offer. We aim to finish in two weeks.
Beware of recruitment fraud. All official correspondence comes from a lunon.ai email address. We will never ask you to share bank account information, cash a check, or purchase equipment as part of the hiring process.