Forward Deployed Engineer

We are looking for a Forward Deployed Engineer with 3-6 years of experience to embed directly with our portfolio companies, ship agentic software into live operations, and own the outcomes end-to-end. This is a Palantir-style FDE role at a software holding company — you're not writing decks, you're building running systems that compound across an entire portfolio.

• Embed with portfolio companies (portcos) to understand their operating model, earn operator trust, and identify the 2–3 highest-leverage workflow opportunities for agentic software.
• Ship the wedge — build integrations, prompts, evals, and UI surfaces to land the first agentic loop at each portco using our core platform.
• Operate and tune deployed systems post-launch, adjusting autonomy tiers and handing off cleanly to portfolio ops once stable.
• Serve as the technical face of this company to portco GMs — building trust, setting expectations, and ensuring the system is seen as their leverage.
• Bring patterns back to HQ and codify learnings into reusable playbooks that accelerate every future deployment in the same vertical.

• Full-stack proficiency:
  Type Script or Python backend, React frontend, SQL — must be able to own end-to-end delivery solo.
• Shipped production LLM/agentic software — real systems with evals, autonomy gating, and outcome tracking (not demos).
• Prior embedded or customer-facing engineering experience (e.g., Palantir FDE, solutions engineer, or deploy-and-operate model).
• Operator instincts — can read a P&L, translate business problems into technical wedges, and earn non-technical stakeholder trust quickly.
• Based in or willing to relocate to New York, NY; comfortable with frequent travel to portfolio company sites.

• Type Script
• Python
• React
• SQL
• LLMs / Foundation Models
• Agentic Workflows
• Evals
• Snowflake
• Databricks
• Apache Iceberg
• Event-driven Systems

3 - 6 years of experience in full-stack, customer-facing software/product engineering OR forward deployed engineering

• Experience with strong tenure at a recognizable early/high-growth startup
• Generalist who has shipped end-to-end production LLM/agentic software to external users
• Exposure to PE, consulting, or vertical SaaS operator environments (portco, M&A integration, or similar)
• Strong Archetypes: ex-founder, founding engineer
• Big Tech (specifically for new grads)

Technical degree at a top university (for candidates with < 2 YOE).

• AI-native with dev tooling and agents to automate manual workflows
• Type Script or Python, React and SQL proficiency
• Programming in Go and Type Script

• Strong executive presence & polished communication with C-Suite/GMs
• Translates ambiguous non-technical problems into scoped technical solutions

Comfortable traveling on-site to portco companies 2-3x days per week