The role
- COMP
- $200K - $300K
- EQUITY
- Competitive equity
- LOCATION
- New York · Chicago
- WORKPLACE
- On-site
- EXPERIENCE
- 3 - 5 years
- VISA
- None
- INDUSTRY
- Software Development, AI, B2B, Enterprise
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Founding Forward Deployed Engineer
Well-funded group that buys specialized industry software businesses to hold for the long term, adding applied AI across its portfolio
The company
Holding company that buys established, business-critical vertical software companies and grows them over the long term with patient capital.
- STAGE
- growth-stage
- FUNDING
- $50M+ raised
- TEAM
- founding team of <10
- FOUNDED
- 2024
JD — the work
About the role
Zero-to-one founding FDE at a software holding company: build the applied-AI function across a growing portfolio of eight mission-critical vertical-SaaS businesses — with C-level customer exposure and a Foundry-style shared platform to architect underneath it all.
What you'll do
- Run discovery, translate business problems into specs, build AI workflows from scratch
- Own deployment lifecycles 0-to-1 through adoption, on-site with executives
- Build the shared ontology tying common data models into productized vertical solutions
- Define AI strategy directly with the co-founders and Head of AI
- Shape how the FDE pod grows — this hire sets the mold
What they're looking for
- 3-5 years of applied/deployment engineering
- Comfort owning C-level relationships
- Platform thinking: productize patterns, not one-offs