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Member of Technical Staff, Forward-Deployed Engineering

Quadrillion


Job Location:

New York City, NY - USA

Yearly Salary: USD 175000 - 350000
Posted: 8 August 2026 (27 days ago)
Application Deadline: 5 November 2026
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Department:

Engineering

Job Summary

As a Forward-Deployed Engineer at Quadrillion Labs youll represent our company in our work with our highly varied set of customers. This is not a traditional FDE role: we are looking for folks who combine enormous technical excellence with deep empathy and an ability to work with customers from a wide variety of verticals. Youll work closely with the core engineering and product teams to triage features and identify ways to improve customer outcomes.

What youll do

  • Deploy Qualia into customers real environments. Stand up Qualia in unusual enterprise environments connect to their unique data sources and navigate their (both engineering and business) constraints.

  • Build what customers need to succeed. Prototype integrations and workflows that answer customer needs and transfer your learnings into production for all of our customers.

  • Manage customer/product relations. Be the first line of defense for the company; speak to our customers in Slack over email and in person and get them excited about using Qualia.

Required qualifications

  • Strong full-stack or backend engineering experience especially with Python

  • Previous experience as a FDE or previous experience in a strongly customer-facing role

  • Comfort working in unfamiliar codebases

  • Ability to move quickly in a zero-to-one environment

About this role

We work in-person 5 days a week out of our office in Midtown Manhattan. We cover generous benefits for employees including medical dental and vision insurance lunch and dinner covered and other varied stipends.

We pride ourselves on a company culture that values a diversity of thoughts and opinions.

About Quadrillion

Quadrillion Labs builds Qualia an agentic research intelligence platform that does real computational research running experiments analyzing data and surfacing insight for the people who do this work at the highest level.

Were a team out of Stanford NLP HRT Citadel Jane Street Google Research and Harvard Med building for an audience that looks a lot like us. Weve raised $18M from Conviction Audacious Bloomberg Beta ex/ante and angels including Wes McKinney the creator of pandas. Were 10 people in NYC scaling to 15 in the coming months.

We think this is the Industrial Revolution moment for research and were building the team to define what comes next.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Quadrillion Labs is an equal opportunity employer. We make hiring and employment decisions without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin age disability genetic information veteran status or any other characteristic protected by federal state or local law. We are committed to building a team where talented people can do their best work.

If you need a reasonable accommodation during the application or interview process let us know at .


Required Experience:

IC