# Founding Forward Deployed Engineer

Founding Forward Deployed Engineer You’re a builder who works at the frontier with our customers. You deploy Nessie into customer environments, build the integrations and workflows they need, and bring what you learn back into the core product. We’re a tiny team with more real customer pull than we can carry, so you’re the technical force that makes deployments real, and you wear the hats a tiny company needs. You are not the sole owner of any customer; the founders lead those relationships, and you make us faster across the board. What "build" means here You have shipped something real: something with users, or something you use every day because you made it for yourself. You have gone from nothing to working software more than once. You’re comfortable across the stack. We ship native desktop apps on macOS, Windows, and Linux, a CLI and background daemon, agent integrations, and a cloud backend, across several languages. You do not need all of them; you need to be the kind of person who picks up what they need. You reach for AI tools instinctively (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex) and you are faster because of it. What you will work on Core engineering Ingestion at scale: a data lake f

- **Id**: 1245374
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/nessie-founding-forward-deployed-engineer>
- **Role**: Solutions
- **Role family**: Solutions
- **Seniority**: junior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: San Francisco, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 1
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: yes
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-25T17:22:41Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-10-23
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-12T22:18:19Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 48
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4827
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity, Vision insurance
- **Relocation offered**: yes
- **Industries**: Machine Learning, AI Development Tools

## Company

- **Id**: 3779585
- **Name**: Nessie
- **Domain**: nessielabs.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/nessie-2>
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Work at a Startup

## Salary

- **Min**: 100000
- **Max**: 150000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 150000

## Technologies

- **ChatGPT** — Optional: no
- **Claude Code** — Optional: no
- **Cursor** — Optional: no
- **Linux** — Optional: no
- **Model Context Protocol** — Optional: no
- **OpenAI Codex** — Optional: no
- **SOC 2** — Optional: no
- **Windows** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 48

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 1
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-25T17:22:41Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 15
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.533
- **P room**: 0.28
- **Age days**: 47
- **Expected fill days**: 23
- **Reasons**: conf:1, win:tail, crowd:junior
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 150000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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