Forward Deployed Engineer

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$160K — $200K *
Enterprise Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 1-3 years of relevant corporate experience
  • Familiarity with APIs and their scopes
  • Able to build tools and configurations without a formal CS degree
  • Strong skills in customer-facing scenarios, particularly with C-suite executives
  • Willingness to travel 5-30% and adapt to a seed-stage work culture
  • Preferred background in solutions engineering, technical consulting, or AI workflows

Responsibilities

  • Own customer deployments end to end as the primary technical point of contact
  • Translate client workflows into platform setups and configurations
  • Build custom integrations and tooling in the codebase
  • Set up monitoring systems for deployment checks and balances
  • Help size unit economics and influence pricing decisions
  • Prototype innovative integrations and products to demonstrate value

Benefits

  • Opportunity to contribute to a brand-new function in the organization
  • Clear growth path to advanced roles such as Senior FDE or FDE Lead
  • Work directly with high-level stakeholders and impact decision-making
  • Engage in a dynamic, fast-paced start-up environment
  • Possibility to transition between high-performing individual contributor and management tracks
Full Job Description
Location: New York, NY

Work Model: In-office

Industry: AI SaaS for home care operations

Compensation: $160K-$200K base
The Opportunity

As a Forward Deployed Engineer, you will be 100% customer-facing and responsible for translating client workflows into a fully configured platform deployment. Working directly with stakeholders like CTOs, COOs, and operations leads, you will get into the codebase to build custom integrations and tooling, set up agent configurations and monitoring, and help size up the unit economics that inform pricing. You will also assess net-new integrations and products, building prototypes to prove out value.

This is a chance to help build a brand-new function from the ground up, with a clear growth path from FDE to Senior FDE to FDE Lead, whether you want to stay a high-performing IC or move into management over time.
Responsibilities
  • Own customer deployments end to end as the primary technical point of contact
  • Translate client workflows into platform setup and configuration
  • Build custom integrations, tooling, and agent configurations in the codebase
  • Set up monitoring and checks and balances for deployments
  • Help size unit economics and inform pricing
  • Assess and prototype net-new integrations and products
Requirements
  • 1-3 years of relevant experience in a corporate environment
  • Comfortable working in a codebase and familiar with APIs and their scopes
  • Semi-technical: able to build additional tools and configurations (no CS degree required, but a real understanding of how systems and code work)
  • Strong customer-facing presence, including comfort with C-suite stakeholders
  • Willing to travel roughly 5-30% and to work hard in a founding-team, seed-stage environment
  • Bonus: background as a solutions engineer, solutions architect, technical consultant, or in a technically-leaning deployment/implementation role; experience with AI-enabled workflows and vibe coding

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