Forward Deployed Engineer (New York)
About this role
We are looking for a Forward Deployed Engineer with 3-6 years of experience to embed directly with Beacon's portfolio companies, ship agentic software into live operations, and own the outcomes end-to-end. This is a Palantir-style FDE role at a software holding company — you're not writing decks, you're building running systems that compound across an entire portfolio.
What will you be doing?
Embed with portfolio companies (portcos) to understand their operating model, earn operator trust, and identify the 2–3 highest-leverage workflow opportunities for agentic software.
Ship the wedge — build integrations, prompts, evals, and UI surfaces to land the first agentic loop at each portco using Beacon's core platform.
Operate and tune deployed systems post-launch, adjusting autonomy tiers and handing off cleanly to portfolio ops once stable.
Serve as the technical face of Beacon to portco GMs — building trust, setting expectations, and ensuring the system is seen as their leverage.
Bring patterns back to HQ and codify learnings into reusable playbooks that accelerate every future deployment in the same vertical.
Key Requirements
Full-stack proficiency: TypeScript or Python backend, React frontend, SQL — must be able to own end-to-end delivery solo.
Shipped production LLM/agentic software — real systems with evals, autonomy gating, and outcome tracking (not demos).
Prior embedded or customer-facing engineering experience (e.g., Palantir FDE, solutions engineer, or deploy-and-operate model).
Operator instincts — can read a P&L, translate business problems into technical wedges, and earn non-technical stakeholder trust quickly.
Based in or willing to relocate to New York, NY; comfortable with frequent travel to portfolio company sites.
Company at a glance
Beacon Software is a software holding company founded by former Instacart President Nilam Ganenthiran and ex-Sequoia partner Divya Gupta that acquires and indefinitely holds vertical market software businesses with permanent capital and long-term growth focus.
What happens next
Skip the application pile. I get you in front of the people who decide.
Confirm the fit
A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.
I pitch you to the company
I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.
A meeting lands on your calendar
When the company wants to meet, I get the call on your calendar. You just show up.
Culture & values
Company is founded by technology entrepreneurs passionate about building great software
Seeks out founders who have spent years understanding their market and prioritizing customer-specific needs
Acquires companies with intent to hold them forever and invest in continued growth
Operates with permanent, committed capital base with long-term time horizon
No pressure or intent to sell acquired companies to other buyers
Founders have careers spent investing in, scaling and building high growth technology businesses
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