Forward Deployed Engineer

About the Role

This is a full-stack, embedded engineering role at a software holding company that acquires and grows vertical market software businesses. The Forward Deployed Engineer goes directly into portfolio companies, learns how they operate, identifies the highest-leverage workflow opportunities for agentic software, and ships those systems into live production end-to-end. This is not a consulting or advisory position; you own the outcome from first integration through stable handoff.

The ideal candidate has 3 to 6 years of full-stack and customer-facing engineering experience, has shipped real production LLM or agentic systems (with evals and autonomy gating, not demos), and knows how to earn trust with non-technical operators quickly. You read a P&L as comfortably as a codebase, and you bring learnings back to the central team in the form of reusable playbooks that make every future deployment faster.

Key Responsibilities

• Embed with portfolio companies to understand their operating model, earn operator trust, and identify the two to three highest-leverage workflow opportunities for agentic software
• Build integrations, prompts, evals, and UI surfaces to land the first agentic loop at each portfolio company using the core platform
• Operate and tune deployed systems post-launch, adjusting autonomy tiers and handing off cleanly to portfolio operations teams once stable
• Serve as the technical face of the holding company to portfolio general managers, building trust, setting expectations, and ensuring each system is seen as their leverage
• Translate business problems into technical wedges and communicate tradeoffs clearly to non-technical stakeholders
• Bring deployment patterns back to the central team and codify learnings into reusable playbooks that accelerate future rollouts across the same vertical
• Travel domestically 2 to 3 days per week to portfolio company sites as needed

Required Skills & Experience

• 3 to 6 years of experience in full-stack, customer-facing software or product engineering, or forward deployed engineering
• Full-stack proficiency: TypeScript or Python on the backend, React on the frontend, SQL
• Shipped production LLM or agentic software with evals, autonomy gating, and outcome tracking
• Prior embedded or customer-facing engineering experience such as forward deployed engineering, solutions engineering, or a deploy-and-operate model
• Ability to read a P&L and translate business problems into technical solutions
• Strong stakeholder communication skills with non-technical operators and general managers
• Based in or willing to relocate to New York, NY; comfortable with frequent domestic travel

Preferred Skills

• Experience with Snowflake, Databricks, Apache Iceberg, or event-driven systems
• Familiarity with agentic workflow design and autonomy tier frameworks
• Experience codifying deployment learnings into team-wide playbooks or runbooks
• Background working within a portfolio or multi-company operating environment