Quick overview
Job description
About the Role
Join an early-stage B2B SaaS team building AI-powered tools for revenue growth. As a founding Forward Deployed Engineer, you will lead technical deployments with enterprise customers, translating complex data environments and business knowledge into reliable workflows that support measurable outcomes.
What You'll Do
Lead customer onboarding end to end, including scoping data access, exploring undocumented warehouses, and mapping schemas to business concepts such as churn, expansion, and recurring revenue.
Build and validate semantic models by working with customer stakeholders to resolve conflicting definitions and encode business logic in verified SQL.
Deploy workflows and AI agent pipelines into customer environments, then monitor their performance and impact.
Manage multiple customer engagements, 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 code, data pipelines, or systems.
Strong SQL and data warehouse skills, including the ability to work with undocumented or legacy schemas and validate results independently.
Experience with data science or machine learning, or academic grounding in statistics, mathematics, or applied mathematics.
Familiarity with SQL, dbt, data warehousing, Python, LLMs, AI agents, signal engineering, or evaluation frameworks.
A degree in computer science, data science, statistics, or a quantitative STEM field, with strong technical fundamentals.
Customer-facing experience, comfort defending technical recommendations with evidence, and patience for detailed data verification work.
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.