Forward Deployed Engineer (New York)
Summary
Forward Deployed Engineer at Beacon Software, a software holding company that buys and grows vertical market software businesses. You embed with portfolio companies to build, ship and operate agentic LLM software end to end, using TypeScript/Python, React, SQL and evals. NYC-based, 3+ days in office.
Forward Deployed Engineer (New York)
Company: Confidential — new kind of software holding company
Location: New York, NY (in office 3+ days per week, 4 preferred; 2-3 days per week travel to East Coast portfolio companies)
Compensation: $185,000 - $240,000 + competitive equity
Employment Type: Full-time
Visa Sponsorship: Visa sponsorship available
About the Company
The client is a new kind of software holding company that buys, builds, grows and holds great vertical market software businesses. The team are technology entrepreneurs, not a financial firm.
Founded in 2024, Beacon has raised $250M and has about 85 people.
The Role
Beacon is hiring Forward Deployed Engineers (3-6 years) to embed with its portfolio companies, ship agentic software into live operations and own the outcomes end to end. This is a Palantir-style role: you build running systems that compound across an entire portfolio.
What You Will Do
- Embed with portfolio companies, earn operator trust and find the highest-leverage workflows for agentic software.
- Build integrations, prompts, evals and UI to land the first agentic loop at each company.
- Operate and tune deployed systems after launch and hand off cleanly once stable.
- Act as the technical face of Beacon to portfolio company leaders.
- Codify learnings into reusable playbooks for future deployments.
What You Bring
- 3-6 years of full-stack, customer-facing software engineering or forward deployed engineering
- TypeScript or Python backend, React frontend and SQL, with solo end-to-end delivery
- Shipped production LLM or agentic software with evals and outcome tracking
- Operator instincts and the ability to earn non-technical stakeholder trust
Nice to Have
- Snowflake, Databricks or Apache Iceberg
- Vertical software experience
Benefits
Health, vision and dental insurance.
Tech Stack
TypeScript, Python, React, SQL, LLMs, agentic workflows, evals, Snowflake, Databricks, Apache Iceberg
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