# Founding Forward Deployed Engineer

About the Role Join an applied AI team in a venture-backed vertical SaaS business, building and deploying solutions for enterprise customers. This founding role will help shape the team's technical approach and its growing forward deployed engineering function. What You'll Do Lead customer discovery and translate business needs into product specifications and AI workflows. Own end-to-end technical deployments, from initial build through customer adoption and ongoing maintenance. Work on-site with customer leaders and teams to deliver solutions, with deployments that may last several weeks. Develop shared data models and workflows that can be productized across verticals. Partner with company leaders to define and execute the applied AI strategy. Help establish the forward deployed engineering team as it grows. What We're Looking For Four to six years of experience in forward deployed engineering or a related technical, customer-facing role. Experience building and deploying AI or software solutions for enterprise B2B clients, including ownership of a deployment from initial development through adoption. Strong technical breadth across full-stack engineering, system architec

- **Id**: 3699994
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/true-talent-solutions-partners-founding-forward-deployed-engineer-22>
- **Role**: Solutions
- **Role family**: Solutions
- **Seniority**: middle
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Chicago, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 4
- **Visa sponsorship**: yes
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: closed
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-03T17:42:47Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-03
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-07T20:57:40Z
- **Board verified**: no
- **Closed at**: 2026-11-07T20:57:40Z
- **Days open**: 4
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 1899
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity
- **Relocation offered**: yes

## Company

- **Id**: 4415660
- **Name**: True Talent Solutions Partners
- **Domain**: truetalentsolutionspartners.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/true-talent-solutions-partners>
- **Is staffing agency**: yes
- **Employer type**: agency
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

## Salary

- **Min**: 200000
- **Max**: 250000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 250000

## Technologies

- **LLM** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: not_scored
- **Days open**: 4

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 4
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: yes

### Education

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

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-03T19:12:25Z
- Event: close; At: 2026-11-07T20:57:40Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: no; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 87; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: Offered visa sponsorship in 87 of its adverts here in 24 months; Filings 12m: 0

## Pay

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

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