Founding Forward Deployed Engineer

Founding Forward Deployed Engineer – Avallon

Full-time, On-site, New York, NY

Salary: $140K‑$210K base + 0.2 – 0.7% equity

We are looking for a Founding Software Engineer with 4–6 years of experience to take true end‑to‑end ownership of the core platform powering Avallon's AI agents — the infrastructure that is already live with top‑10 insurance carriers and scaling at 25x revenue growth. This is a high‑agency, zero‑hand‑holding role on a six‑person YC‑backed team where you design systems, orchestrate AI agents, and ship production code on a weekly cycle.

• Own entire platform components end‑to‑end — from evaluation pipelines and model reliability to document parsing and agent execution infrastructure.
• Build and maintain reliability systems: retries, circuit breakers, failover, observability, and canary deployments.
• Design and ship the eval platform that catches regressions before customers do, including per‑run evals and automated regression detection.
• Collaborate closely with forward‑deployed engineers to rapidly spec, build, and ship solutions surfaced directly from customer pain points.
• Shape developer platform tooling, CI/CD workflows, and coding agent integrations to unlock team velocity.

• Type Script and SQL as primary production languages — must be clearly evidenced on resume or Git Hub.
• Hands‑on AWS experience in a production environment.
• Startup experience (Seed–Series B) with demonstrated end‑to‑end ownership of a core platform component — not just feature contributions.
• Experience in a regulated or security‑sensitive environment (fintech, insurtech, healthtech) where auditability and traceability were hard requirements.
• A public artifact (Git Hub, personal site, publication) showing genuine engineering interest outside of day‑to‑day employment.

Visa sponsorship not available.

On‑site work policy: 5 days per week in New York, NY.

Full‑time position.

Report to:
Bryan Guin

Team size: 8 employees.