Founding Forward Deployed Engineer
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Nov 11, 2026. First seen by Alion on Nov 11, 2026.
About the Role
Join an early-stage B2B SaaS company building AI-powered revenue workflows for enterprise customers. As a founding member of the deployment team, you will turn complex customer data into validated models and production-ready agent workflows that support measurable business outcomes.
What You'll Do
Lead customer onboarding end to end, from scoping data access to exploring warehouse schemas and mapping data to business concepts such as churn, expansion, and recurring revenue.
Build and validate semantic models by interviewing stakeholders, reconciling differing definitions, and encoding agreed-upon logic in verified SQL queries.
Deploy customer-specific workflows and agent pipelines, then monitor their performance and business outcomes.
Manage several customer engagements at once, collaborating with customer data and engineering teams while completing hands-on data work.
Use internal agent tools and share feedback to improve evaluation guardrails, validation frameworks, and agent infrastructure.
What We're Looking For
Two to five years of experience in forward deployed engineering, data science, or customer-facing software engineering.
Experience owning technical customer deployments end to end and independently shipping production data pipelines or software systems.
Strong SQL and data warehouse skills, including the ability to navigate undocumented or legacy schemas and independently validate results.
Proficiency with SQL, dbt, Python, data warehousing, LLMs, AI agents, signal engineering, or evaluation frameworks.
Prior data science or machine learning experience, or academic grounding in statistics, mathematics, applied mathematics, computer science, data science, or another quantitative STEM field.
Customer-facing experience, sound technical judgment, and the ability to work carefully through detailed, repetitive data verification.
Experience in a startup, consulting, or similarly hands-on environment is valuable.
Compensation & Benefits
Base salary: $180,000 to $250,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is available.
Location
On-site, five days per week in New York, New York, United States.