CareerPlan

Forward Deployed Engineer

New York CityFull-time$200k–$280k2026-11-07
On-siteNo visa sponsorship

Core

Embed directly with civil, structural, and MEP engineering firms to discover workflows, build AI applications, and ship production software that integrates with legacy engineering tools.

Role type

Senior IC software engineer (applied AI / embedded engineering)

Builds

Production AI applications, data connectors, scrapers, browser automations, and document-processing workflows for civil/structural/MEP firms

Domain

Applied AI, Civil Engineering, Structural Engineering, MEP Engineering

Deliverable

production ML models | product features

Required skills

Software engineering fundamentals, building production applications from scratch, user discovery and trust-building, end-to-end project ownership, legacy system integration, LLMs, RAG, agent frameworks, browser automation, document parsing

Preferred skills

Engineering degree background, experience with Next.js, Kotlin, Python, AWS, Pulumi

Technologies

Next.js, Vercel, Tailwind CSS, Kotlin, Python, AWS, Pulumi, LLMs, RAG, agent frameworks

Responsibilities

Embed with engineering teams to understand workflows, build smallest viable solutions for high-leverage problems, integrate with legacy architecture, develop AI applications using LLMs and agents, convert bespoke solutions into reusable platform capabilities, collaborate with CTO on strategy

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC