Founding Forward Deployed Engineer
Core
Own customer deployments for an early-stage B2B SaaS company, combining data engineering, applied AI, and customer collaboration to deliver measurable business outcomes.
Role type
Founding Forward Deployed Engineer
Builds
Customer-facing signals, workflows, custom agent configurations, and reusable validation frameworks
Domain
B2B SaaS, Data Engineering, Applied AI
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
SQL, dbt, applied statistics, modeling, validation design, calibration, custom agent setup, data mapping
Preferred skills
Early-stage startup experience, founder experience
Technologies
SQL, dbt
Responsibilities
Lead customer onboarding and scope data access, interview customer teams to establish data definitions, build analysis demonstrating deployment impact, diagnose issues with AI agent outputs, turn deployment learnings into reusable tools
Seniority
Founding, hands-on IC