Forward Deployed Engineer (New York)

Company: Confidential - Well-funded vertical-software holding company
Location: New York, NY (in office 3+ days per week, 4 preferred; 2-3 days per week travel to East Coast portfolio companies)
Compensation: $185,000 - $240,000 + competitive equity
Employment Type: Full-time
Visa Sponsorship: Visa sponsorship available

About the Company

A software holding company run by technology entrepreneurs that buys, builds and permanently holds vertical-market software businesses, embedding engineers with its portfolio companies to modernize them with AI.

The Role

Our client is hiring Forward Deployed Engineers (3-6 years) to embed with its portfolio companies, ship agentic software into live operations and own the outcomes end to end. In this role you build running systems that compound across an entire portfolio.

What You Will Do

• Embed with portfolio companies, earn operator trust and find the highest-leverage workflows for agentic software.
• Build integrations, prompts, evals and UI to land the first agentic loop at each company.
• Operate and tune deployed systems after launch and hand off cleanly once stable.
• Act as the technical face of the company to portfolio company leaders.
• Codify learnings into reusable playbooks for future deployments.

What You Bring

• 3-6 years of full-stack, customer-facing software engineering or forward deployed engineering
• TypeScript or Python backend, React frontend and SQL, with solo end-to-end delivery
• Shipped production LLM or agentic software with evals and outcome tracking
• Operator instincts and the ability to earn non-technical stakeholder trust

Nice to Have

• Snowflake, Databricks or Apache Iceberg
• Vertical software experience

Benefits

Health, vision and dental insurance.

Tech Stack

TypeScript, Python, React, SQL, LLMs, agentic workflows, evals, Snowflake, Databricks, Apache Iceberg