Forward-Deployed Software Engineer (FDSE)

Type: Full-time | Hybrid (2–4 days in-office) | San Francisco, CA

Compensation: $150K–$200K + equity

Visa sponsorship: Not available for this role (must be authorized to work in the US without sponsorship)

About the Company

We're an early-stage, well-funded AI company helping large enterprises measure and maximize the ROI of their AI investments. Our software combines advanced research with deep data analysis to generate dynamic, tailored roadmaps for each organization. Backed by leading investors and prominent voices in AI, and built on peer-reviewed academic methodologies, we already work with major enterprise customers and have real revenue and traction. Based in San Francisco.

Why Join

High-impact enterprise work: Solve real-world data and engineering challenges directly with large enterprise clients.

Work with a strong team: Collaborate with accomplished AI researchers, data scientists, strategists, and platform engineers.

Ownership and growth: Meaningful equity in a fast-growing company with genuine market traction.

Shape the product: Your client-facing insights directly inform the product roadmap; you'll work with senior stakeholders and travel to client sites.

The Role

As a Forward-Deployed Software Engineer, you'll work directly with enterprise clients to solve high-impact data and engineering challenges. You'll embed with client teams to understand their systems, extract and transform complex datasets, and build scalable solutions. This is a technical-first role: you'll write production-grade code, build data pipelines, and integrate with messy real-world systems.

What You'll Be Doing

Deploy on-site or work closely with client engineering teams to extract data from enterprise systems (ERPs, data warehouses, SaaS tools)

Write clean, efficient, maintainable code in Python, SQL, and other languages as needed

Build and deploy data pipelines, APIs, and internal tooling to support analytics and modeling workflows

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