Founding Forward Deployed Engineer
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Nov 12, 2026. First seen by Alion on Nov 12, 2026.
About the Role
Join an early-stage B2B SaaS team building AI-powered tools for revenue operations. As a founding deployment hire, you will connect customer data environments to production agent workflows and help turn complex business definitions into reliable, measurable outcomes.
What You'll Do
Lead customer onboarding from data-access scoping through warehouse exploration and mapping schemas to business concepts such as churn, expansion, and recurring revenue.
Interview customer stakeholders, resolve competing definitions, and build a verified semantic layer with validated SQL queries.
Deploy platform workflows and agent pipelines into customer environments, then monitor their performance and business impact.
Manage multiple customer engagements, partnering with data and engineering teams while completing hands-on data work.
Use internal agent tools and share feedback on evaluation guardrails, validation frameworks, and agent infrastructure.
What We're Looking For
Two to five years of experience in forward deployment, data science, analytics engineering, or customer-facing software engineering.
Experience owning end-to-end technical customer deployments and independently shipping production code, pipelines, or systems.
Strong SQL and data warehouse skills, including the ability to investigate undocumented schemas and validate results.
Working knowledge of Python, dbt, data warehousing, LLMs, AI agents, signal engineering, and evaluation frameworks.
Prior data science or machine learning experience, or academic grounding in statistics, mathematics, or a related quantitative field.
A relevant degree and strong computer science, data, or quantitative fundamentals.
Customer-facing experience, sound technical judgment, and comfort with detailed, repetitive data verification work.
Experience in a startup, consulting, or similarly hands-on environment is valuable.
Compensation & Benefits
Base salary is $180,000 to $250,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is available.
Location
On-site, five days per week in New York, New York.