Forward Deployed Engineer

We are looking for a Forward Deployed Engineer with 3-6 years of experience to embed directly with our portfolio companies ship agentic software into live operations and own the outcomes end-to-end. This is a Palantir-style FDE role at a software holding company youre not writing decks youre building running systems that compound across an entire portfolio.

What will you be doing

• Embed with portfolio companies (portcos) to understand their operating model earn operator trust and identify the 23 highest-leverage workflow opportunities for agentic software.
• Ship the wedge build integrations prompts evals and UI surfaces to land the first agentic loop at each portco using our core platform.
• Operate and tune deployed systems post-launch adjusting autonomy tiers and handing off cleanly to portfolio ops once stable.
• Serve as the technical face of this company to portco GMs building trust setting expectations and ensuring the system is seen as their leverage.
• Bring patterns back to HQ and codify learnings into reusable playbooks that accelerate every future deployment in the same vertical.

Key Requirements

• Full-stack proficiency: TypeScript or Python backend React frontend SQL must be able to own end-to-end delivery solo.
• Shipped production LLM/agentic software real systems with evals autonomy gating and outcome tracking (not demos).
• Prior embedded or customer-facing engineering experience (e.g. Palantir FDE solutions engineer or deploy-and-operate model).
• Operator instincts can read a P&L translate business problems into technical wedges and earn non-technical stakeholder trust quickly.
• Based in or willing to relocate to New York NY; comfortable with frequent travel to portfolio company sites.

Tech stack:
TypeScript Python React SQL LLMs / Foundation Models Agentic Workflows Evals Snowflake Databricks Apache Iceberg Event-driven Systems

Seniority:

3 - 6 years of experience in full-stack customer-facing software/product engineering OR forward deployed engineering

Work experience:

-Experience with strong tenure at a recognizable early/high-growth startup

-Generalist who has shipped end-to-end production LLM/agentic software to external users

-Exposure to PE consulting or vertical SaaS operator environments (portco M&A integration or similar)

-Strong Archetypes: ex-founder founding engineer

-Big Tech (specifically for new grads)

Education:

Technical degree at a top university (for candidates with < 2 YOE)

Hard skills:

-AI-native with dev tooling and agents to automate manual workflows

-TypeScript or Python React and SQL proficiency

-Programming in Go and TypeScript

Soft skills:

Strong executive presence & polished communication with C-Suite/GMs

Translates ambiguous non-technical problems into scoped technical solutions

Miscellaneous:

Comfortable traveling on-site to portco companies 2-3x days per week