Founding Forward Deployed Engineer
Summary
Founding forward deployed engineer at an early-stage B2B SaaS startup building AI-powered revenue operations tools. You lead customer onboarding, build semantic models in SQL, and deploy/monitor AI agent workflows in customer environments. On-site in New York; core stack includes SQL, Python, dbt, and LLM/agent tooling.
About the Role
Join an early-stage B2B SaaS team building AI-powered tools for revenue operations. As a founding member of the deployments function, you will turn complex customer data into reliable models and production agent workflows that support measurable business outcomes.
What You'll Do
Lead customer onboarding from scoping data access through investigating warehouse schemas and mapping data to business concepts such as churn, expansion, and recurring revenue.
Build and validate semantic models by working with customer stakeholders to reconcile business definitions and encode them in verified SQL queries.
Deploy workflows and agent pipelines into customer environments, then monitor their performance and business impact.
Manage several customer engagements at once, balancing direct collaboration with customer teams and hands-on data work.
Use internal agent tools and share feedback on evaluation guardrails, validation frameworks, and agent infrastructure.
What We're Looking For
Two to five years of experience in forward deployed engineering, data science, or customer-facing software engineering.
Experience owning technical customer deployments end to end and independently shipping production code, data pipelines, or systems.
Strong SQL and data warehouse skills, including the ability to navigate undocumented or legacy schemas and validate results.
Working knowledge of Python, dbt, LLMs, AI agents, signal engineering, or evaluation frameworks.
Background in data science, machine learning, statistics, mathematics, or another quantitative field, with strong technical fundamentals.
Customer-facing experience, sound technical judgment, and comfort with detailed, iterative data verification in a startup or similarly hands-on environment.
Compensation & Benefits
Base salary: $180,000 to $250,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is available.
Location
On-site, five days per week in New York, New York.
Skills
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