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
A company that partners with mission-critical software companies to unlock growth and build for an AI-first future
The company
Software holding company acquiring and growing mission-critical vertical SaaS businesses with patient capital and careful stewardship.
- 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 — C-level customer exposure plus a Foundry-style shared platform underneath.
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 shared ontology and productized vertical solutions
- Define AI strategy with the co-founders and Head of AI
- Shape the growing FDE pod
What they're looking for
- 3-5 years of applied/deployment engineering
- C-level relationship comfort
- Platform instincts over one-off consulting