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Pear

Founding Forward Deployed Engineer

New York, NY · On-site

Founding Forward Deployed Engineer New York City • In Person • Travel Required ABOUT FRONTDESK Frontdesk is building AI workers that run customer operations across voice, text, email, and chat.

Raydar

Founding Forward Deployed Engineer

New York, NY · On-site

$200K - $300K/yr

The role and why it matters This is a founding Forward Deployed Engineer role with direct access to the co-founders and Head of AI. You will build and deploy applied-AI products across multiple ...

Raydar

Founding Forward Deployed Engineer

New York, NY · On-site

$200K - $300K/yr

The role and why it matters This is a founding Forward Deployed Engineer role with direct access to the co-founders and Head of AI. You will build and deploy applied-AI products across multiple ...

Sandstone

Founding Forward-Deployed Engineer

New York, NY · On-site

$170K - $250K/yr

About the Role We're seeking Founding Forward-Deployed Engineers (FDE) to serve as the technical face of Sandstone for a cohort of in-house legal teams post-sale, owning engagements from onboarding ...

Alloy

Founding Forward Deployed Engineer

New York, NY · On-site +1

$141K - $250K/yr

Forward Deployed Engineering. Our largest enterprise customers need a trusted technical partner ... You'll be one of the first two engineers on this founding team. This is a software engineering role ...

Warp

Forward Deployed Engineer

New York, NY

As our Founding Forward Deployed Engineer , you'll be the first hire dedicated to making enterprise implementations successful, turning promising pilots into production deployments that drive real ...

Alloy

Founding Forward Deployed Engineer

New York, NY · Hybrid

$166K - $250K/yr

Forward Deployed Engineering. Our largest enterprise customers need a trusted technical partner ... You'll be one of the first two engineers on this founding team. This is a software engineering role ...

Clera

Forward Deployed Engineer

New York, NY · On-site

$140K - $160K/yr

About the Role This is a founding Forward Deployed Engineer position at an early-stage data infrastructure startup, sitting at the intersection of customer success and engineering. You will be the ...

Jampack AI

Founding Forward Deployed Engineer

New York, NY · On-site

$141K/yr

As a Forward Deployed Engineer, you sit at the intersection of engineering, operations, and customer partnership - embedding directly with CPG ops teams to map how their wholesale operation actually ...

Jampack AI

Founding Forward Deployed Engineer

Manhattan, NY · On-site

$142K/yr

As a Forward Deployed Engineer, you sit at the intersection of engineering, operations, and customer partnership -- embedding directly with CPG ops teams to map how their wholesale operation actually ...

Triwill Group

Forward Deployed Engineer

Manhattan, NY · On-site

Figma is building its founding Forward Deployed Engineering team to solve the complex, real-world challenges that emerge when bringing Figma's products into large-scale enterprise environments and ...

Sylvan

Founding Forward Deployed Engineer

New York, NY · On-site

$150K - $230K/yr

What You'll Bring * 3+ years in a technical, customer-facing role (forward deployed, solutions, or software engineering with heavy customer exposure); former founders strongly encouraged * Deep data ...

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Founding Forward Deployed Engineer

Manhattan, NY • On-site

Pear VC
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Founding Forward Deployed Engineer

New York City · In Person · Travel Required


ABOUT FRONTDESK

Frontdesk is building AI workers that run customer operations across voice, text, email, and chat.


Over the last year, the size of the contracts we've been closing has increased roughly 10x, with several enterprise deals now reaching six figures and beyond.


At that scale, deployment stops being simple.


Our largest customers need custom integrations, complex workflows, outbound orchestration, legacy systems connected, and dozens of edge cases handled before AI can actually run meaningful parts of their business.


We're looking for the person who wants to own that problem.


THE ROLE

We're hiring our Founding Forward Deployed Engineer.


You will take our hardest enterprise customers from:


"We want Frontdesk to do this" → "It's live in production."


There won't always be a playbook.


You might fly to a customer's office, sit with their operators, understand a workflow nobody has documented properly, design the solution, and then build the missing integration or product capability yourself.


You won't throw requirements over the wall to another team. You'll work directly in the codebase and own the outcome.


And once it works, you'll ask the most important question:


How do we make sure we never have to build this from scratch again?


You'll take what you learn in the field and turn it into reusable Frontdesk product, infrastructure, and deployment primitives.


WHAT YOU'LL DO

  • Own our largest and most technically difficult enterprise deployments.

  • Work directly with customers to understand how their businesses actually operate.

  • Build integrations, workflows, internal tooling, and product capabilities needed to get them live.

  • Travel onsite when being in the room helps us solve the problem faster.

  • Work across voice, SMS, email, chat, APIs, data, LLMs, and workflow orchestration.

  • Debug whatever is blocking a deployment, even when the problem sits outside Frontdesk.

  • Identify patterns across customers and turn one-off solutions into scalable product.

  • Work closely with the founders and engineering team on what Frontdesk should build next.


THIS IS A FOUNDING ROLE

We expect this to become a major function inside Frontdesk.


At first, you'll be extremely hands-on. You'll write code, work with customers, and personally own deployments.


As we scale, we expect you to build and eventually lead the Forward Deployed Engineering organization.


That means defining how we deploy enterprise AI, hiring the team, building the playbooks, and determining how Forward Deployed Engineering works with Product, Engineering, Sales, and Customer Success.


We're looking for someone who doesn't just want a job.


We're looking for someone who wants to build something from zero, own a massive surface area, and eventually lead the organization they create.


YOU MIGHT BE A FIT IF YOU

  • Are a strong software engineer who wants more ownership than a traditional engineering role provides.

  • Love talking to customers and solving real problems, not just working from tickets.

  • Are comfortable jumping across the stack and learning whatever is necessary.

  • Have strong product intuition and naturally think about how to generalize what you build.

  • Thrive when the problem is ambiguous and there is no existing playbook.

  • Move extremely quickly and take personal ownership over outcomes.

  • Would rather own an entire problem than a small piece of a large system.

  • Could see yourself founding a company someday, or already think like a founder.

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