Forward Deployed Engineer

Eagle

• $150K — $300K *
Technical Services
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Experience with LLMs, Agent Frameworks, RAG, browser automation, or document parsing.
  • Strong communication skills to build trust with non-tech staff.
  • Comfort with ambiguity and conflicting feedback from users.
  • Curiosity about workflows, organizations, and markets.

Responsibilities

  • Embed with engineering firm staff to gather insights and build solutions.
  • Own end-to-end problem-solving: from discovery to deployment and debugging.
  • Collaborate with the CTO on shaping engineering culture and product direction.

Benefits

  • Meaningful early-stage equity.
  • Comprehensive healthcare benefits.
  • Team meals in an in-person NYC office.
Full Job Description
The opportunity

Our core thesis: 85% of what engineers do today is theoretically automatable, yet less than 5% has actually been touched by AI. That gap is the largest of any profession. Our plan is to close it by building purpose-built tools for their staff, and compounding that proprietary intelligence across customers.

As a Forward Deployed Engineer, you're the tip of the spear. You'll embed inside the firms we work with-sitting beside structural, civil, and MEP engineers who've often never worked with a software company-find the workflows where technology creates the most leverage, and ship tools that work in weeks, not quarters. You own the outcome, not a ticket. And after winning at the edge, you'll work with the rest of the team to compound what you learned into universal product leverage for Eagle. You get a front-row seat to building a company from zero on a problem domain that's barely been touched by AI.

What you'll do
  • Embed on-site with engineers at the firms we work with-watch how they work, earn their trust, and find the highest-leverage problems to solve
  • Own outcomes end-to-end: discovery, build, deployment, debugging in prod, and iterating live with the people using it
  • Ship fast and bespoke when the deployment demands it-then feed every lesson back into a platform that compounds across firms
  • Do whatever the deployment needs: wire up integrations to legacy Windows-native AEC software, write the scraper, or stand up an off-the-shelf tool to test an idea before you build the real thing
  • Collaborate directly with the CTO on technical direction, engineering culture, and what we build next


What we look for
  • Has a deep curiosity for how things work-an organization, a workflow, a market
  • Isn't afraid to expose their ignorance and is constantly asking why
  • Has the poise and communication skills to earn trust with people who've never worked with a tech company before-on their turf, in their language
  • Can sit with noisy, conflicting feedback from users and distill it into a clear opinion about what to build
  • Low ego, high agency: no task is beneath you if it unblocks the deployment
  • Is willing to get on a plane with us
  • Has experience or interest in LLMs, agent frameworks, RAG, browser automation, or doc parsing


Technology
  • Frontend: NextJS on Vercel, Tailwind CSS
  • Backend: Kotlin for web services, Python for data
  • Infra: Multitenant shared infra on AWS via Pulumi


Compensation
  • Competitive cash compensation ($150K-$300K depending on experience)
  • Founding equity, scaled to scope
  • Full healthcare benefits
  • In-person office in NYC

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