Forward Deployed engineer

Forward Deployed Engineer | San Francisco or New York (Onsite) | $150K–$225K

We've partnered with one of the most talked-about AI startups in the Valley, a $50M Series A company backed by Founders Fund, Kleiner Perkins, and OpenAI, and founded by an exceptional team moving at extraordinary speed. They build software that automates the most complex, load-bearing workflows inside Fortune 500 companies, the kind of processes that previously consumed thousands of human hours. They're already live in production with multiple Fortune 500 customers at enterprise-grade reliability, driving millions in savings

.
This is a rare opportunity to join a small, elite team in a genuinely founder-like role. As a Forward Deployed Engineer you won't be handed a spec, you'll own some of the largest companies in the world end-to-end, from the first discovery call through to global rollout. You'll write real production code every day and sit in the room with senior enterprise stakeholders, owning the business outcome rather than a ticket queue. If you want frontier-scale problems, extreme ownership, and the chance to build things that reach production fast, this is one of the most exciting seats in enterprise AI right no

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As a Forward Deployed Engineer, you w

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  Go into Fortune 500 organisations, understand their most critical and ambiguous processes better than they do, and build the software that replaces
• them.Ship robust, production-grade automation and full-stack software end-to-end, owning it from discovery through architecture, deployment, and global rol
• lout.Write production-quality code daily across the full stack, from frontend to backend to infrastruc
• ture.Sit with senior enterprise stakeholders, earn their trust, drive adoption, and scale deployments from initial pilot to full production vo
• lume.Own the production aftermath, the migrations, monitoring, and edge cases, and define the best practices that shape how the company deploys to every future cust

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• ut You
  You have a strong software engineering background and can ship a full-stack application end-to-end, solo, across frontend, backend, infrastructure, and depl
• oyment.You write production code as part of your daily work, not slideware or configu
• ration.You have high interpersonal range, an enterprise customer would genuinely enjoy and trust partnering wi
• th you.You have extreme agency, thrive on a fast pace and high intensity, and run toward the fire when something is broken or und
• efined.One of these backgrounds fits you: an ex-Palantir Forward Deployed Engineer, McKinsey Engagement Manager, or similar technical-delivery role where you were actually writing code; a founding engineer or technical founder who has shipped a 0→1 product into production for real customers; or an exceptional early-career engineer with an unmistakable upward trajectory, ideally from a top p
• rogram.Familiarity with modern AI-native development, building with LLMs and agents and using tools like Claude Code or Cursor, is a stron
• g plus.You're based in San Francisco or New York, or willing to relocate for a five-day-per-week onsite role. Open to visa transfers (OPT

, H1B).
The team is moving quickly with this hire. If you're interested in building the next generation of enterprise AI alongside an exceptional founding team, apply now or send your CV directly to will@inventurerecruitm

ent.com.