Forward Deployed Engineer Multiple Locations 115K-175K

Location: Multiple locations (NYC or SF Bay Area preferred in-person)

Compensation: $115000 - $175000 per year plus founding-hire level equity

Join a fast-growing public safety technology company as a Forward Deployed Engineer owning customer outcomes end-to-end for law enforcement agencies solving real cases.

What Youll Own

- Scope pilots with new customer agencies and translate operational goals into technical deployment plans

- Ingest messy evidentiary data per customer including digital extractions call records license plate data body camera footage and more

- Configure the product per-agency and write scripts or integrations when the product does not quite fit

- Sit with detectives prosecutors and analysts while they work and translate workflow gaps into product improvements

- Own customer relationships from pilot through first renewal and expansion

- Feed learnings directly into the product roadmap

What Youll Bring

- Strong engineering skills comfortable in Python and/or TypeScript APIs and data pipelines

- A genuinely customer-facing nature comfortable operating in person with law enforcement professionals not just over video calls

- A bias to action and comfort with ambiguity

- An owner mindset and mission alignment with public safety work

- Willingness to go through an FBI background check and CJIS clearance process (the team supports this process)

- Based in NYC or the SF Bay Area or willing to travel more frequently if based elsewhere

Nice to Have

- Prior forward-deployed solutions engineering or implementation experience selling into non-tech-native customers

- Exposure to law enforcement prosecution intelligence defense or forensics work

- Familiarity with digital evidence formats

- Strong design sensibility

- Prior experience at a defense or public safety adjacent startup

This is a founding-level seat with real customer ownership and meaningful equity working on technology that directly helps solve real crimes.