Forward Deployed Engineer

Confidential client a Seed-stage startup (1-10 employees) building AI systems that do a companys hardest work and verify it so people can finally come out of the loop. The work is foundational multi-day hundred-step processes businesses run on today with entire teams: reconciliation across physical and digital systems invoice and PO matching and month-end close.

The team currently works with finance and accounting teams at operationally complex enterprises where the cost of being almost right is the same as being wrong. Tight-knit highly technical team that ships full systems end-to-end. Full-Time In-person San Francisco CA. Experience: 0-4 years. Salary: $180000-$250000/yr. Visa sponsorship: None available.

About the Role: Youll own how the company lands. This is a post-sales Forward Deployed Engineer role: implementing and building atop the platform rather than doing heavy custom engineering or core product work. One day youre shadowing a finance team to map how they close the books the next youre wiring up computer-use agents against their actual systems the next youre showing their CAO that what used to take a week now takes an hour. Patterns you find in the field feed a product-deployment loop that directly shapes what gets built into the platform. The most important trait by far is commercial ability: interfacing with customers understanding their needs and figuring out how the platform can solve them. Backgrounds in consulting solutions engineering or other external-facing roles tend to do well. Strong technical ability is a baseline expectation but you dont need to be a world-class engineer. This role is entirely post-sales including work during paid PSCs (proofs of concept) which count as post-sales since the customer has already signed. Theres real room to grow into leading all of post-sales over time.

What Youll Own:

- Embedding with customer teams to learn how their operations actually run: shadowing experts mapping decision logic capturing tribal knowledge

- Implementing and building atop the platform to automate multi-day multi-step finance and accounting processes

- Wiring up computer-use agents against customers actual systems and verifying outputs

- Feeding field patterns back into the product-deployment loop that shapes the roadmap

Company stage: Seed. Work type: In-person (San Francisco CA). No visa sponsorship available.