Forward Deployed Engineer
- Location
- New York, San Francisco
- Workplace
- On-site
- Employment
- Full-time
- Compensation
- $150k – $275k + equity
- Visa
- Visa Sponsorship Available
About this role
We are looking for a Forward Deployed Engineer with 3-8 years of experience to own the technical customer relationship at a $50M Series A AI data platform for investors. You'll embed directly with private equity, private credit, and venture capital firms — building custom integrations on their data, demoing complex data infrastructure to C-level stakeholders, and driving real outcomes alongside our founders and engineers.
What will you be doing?
- Build and demo custom solutions on customer data — connecting structured and unstructured sources (PDFs, Excel, databases), running data reconciliation, and building compelling front-ends on top
- Own pre-sales technical work: build reusable demo environments, run private demos on prospect data, and support deal strategy
- Post-sales: work alongside engineers on lighter-weight implementations, data integrations, evals, and customer feedback loops
- Drive technical relationship management — sit with analysts at PE firms, understand their workflows, and translate patterns into product improvements
- Act as the voice of the customer, identifying what should be productized vs. one-off
What happens next
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Confirm the fit
A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.
Clera pitches you to the company
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A meeting lands on your calendar
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Culture & values
Engineers come from companies with a strong engineering bar, such as Stripe, Notion, and Applied Intuition
The team values engineers who understand what makes a great product
The team values engineers who care deeply about craft
The team values engineers who continuously raise the bar for quality
Engineers work directly with customers and hear customer pain points firsthand
The team ships solutions within days
The team offers a white-glove partnership with every customer
The culture is the opposite of a 996 culture
There are no strict hours
There is flexibility for life outside work, such as school drop-offs
New hires join as one of the first 20 engineers and get high ownership, high impact, and fast iteration
What matters is getting great work done
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