AI Forward Deployed Engineer
- Location
- New York
- Workplace
- Hybrid
- Employment
- Full-time
- Compensation
- $180k – $300k + equity
- Visa
- No Visa Sponsorship
About this role
We are looking for an AI Forward Deployed Engineer with 5+ years of experience to sit at the intersection of engineering and customer success at Didero — a fast-growing AI startup putting supply chains on autopilot. You'll work directly with enterprise customers to understand their complex procurement and ERP workflows, then design and build the integrations and backend systems that bring Didero's AI agents to life in production.
What will you be doing?
- Work directly with customers to understand end-to-end procurement, ERP, and operational workflows — then translate them into scalable technical solutions.
- Design and build integrations with enterprise systems like NetSuite, SAP, and Microsoft Business Central via APIs and data pipelines.
- Build backend services, workflow automations, and customer-specific solutions using Python/Django.
- Partner with Product and Engineering to identify repeatable patterns that feed back into the core platform.
- Support customer discovery, deployment planning, and occasional on-site technical workshops (~1–2x/month).
Key Requirements
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience with strong backend expertise.
- Proficiency in Python and/or Django (or comparable backend technologies).
- Hands-on experience building integrations with external APIs, enterprise software, or data pipelines.
- Experience working directly with customers or cross-functional stakeholders to translate business requirements into technical solutions.
- Strong systems-thinking mindset — able to question requirements, challenge assumptions, and design scalable architectures in ambiguous environments.
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Culture & values
Engineering culture is generalist by design with no strict frontend/backend divide
Engineers own their full stack including deployment infrastructure
Company operates with a 'customer first, platform second, product third' philosophy
Engineers work directly with customers to solve real problems before abstracting solutions into scalable platforms
Engineers are expected to be AI-native in their approach to problem-solving
Team is lean, fast-moving, and heavily oriented toward customer impact
Engineers deploy their own containers and own their solutions end-to-end
Forward Deployed Engineers are paired with Deployment Strategists to handle relationship management, freeing engineers to focus on technical problems
Culture prioritizes customer-first development, doing whatever it takes to make customers successful
Culture values strong CS fundamentals over narrow specialization
Team is energized by solving real-world problems for end users rather than deep technical puzzles in isolation
Startup-speed execution with tier-1 engineering caliber
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