Job Description

Founding Forward Deployed Engineer

New York City

$140000 - $210000 Equity

Revive Recruitment is partnering with a fast-growing venture-backed AI startup that is transforming complex operational workflows through AI agents and automation. Having recently secured funding and experiencing significant growth theyre looking for a Founding Forward Deployed Engineer to work directly with customers shape product direction and help scale an AI platform already delivering real-world impact.

What Youll Do

• Partner directly with customers to understand operational challenges and translate them into scalable product solutions.

• Own projects end-to-end from technical discovery and implementation through to deployment and ongoing optimisation.

• Work closely with engineering teams to build test and ship AI-powered workflows and agent-based solutions.

• Help shape product direction by bringing customer feedback and real-world use cases back into the roadmap.

• Contribute to platform reliability automation evaluation frameworks and deployment processes.

• Operate at the intersection of engineering product and customer success in a highly collaborative environment.

What Youll Have

• 2-5 years of experience in Forward Deployed Engineering Solutions Engineering Software Engineering or similar customer-facing technical roles.

• Strong experience with TypeScript SQL and AWS in production environments.

• Experience working in startup environments with end-to-end ownership of products or platform components.

• A passion for AI LLMs automation and solving real-world business problems.

• Strong communication skills and the ability to work directly with customers and stakeholders.

• Evidence of building outside of work whether through GitHub projects side projects open-source contributions or personal products.

Whats In It For You

• Join a founding team at an exciting stage of growth and help shape both the product and engineering culture.

• Work directly alongside experienced founders and engineers in a highly collaborative environment.

• Gain significant ownership and autonomy from day one.

• Exposure to customers product strategy and technical decision-making.

• Competitive salary of $140000 - $210000 plus meaningful equity.

• The opportunity to work on cutting-edge AI systems that are solving real operational challenges for enterprise customers.

5 days onsite in New York City

If youre excited by AI customer-facing engineering and the opportunity to help build a category-defining product from the ground up wed love to hear from you.