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GleanGleanUnited States

Founding Forward Deployed Engineer

Founding forward deployed engineer builds 0-to-1 AI product surfaces for strategic enterprise customers, partnering with C-suite and Glean teams. Requires 4+ years experience, production AI shipping, full-stack depth, and business acumen; 25-50% travel.

160k – 270k/yr
Remote4+ YOEML Engineering

About the role

The Opportunity

Join as a founding member of Glean's forward deployed team to discover and build next-generation product surfaces. Work in a pod with Forward Deployed PMs directly with C-suite executives of influential companies and Glean's engineering/product teams to identify unsolved business problems and create new products that ship globally.

What You'll Do

  • Discover and build Glean's next product surfaces: Perform 0-to-1 product creation by extending the platform to solve novel problems.
  • Lead deep opportunity discovery: Analyze business issues, form hypotheses, and validate with stakeholders.
  • Be a technical partner to the C-suite: Build trust with executives by explaining builds, rationale, and risks.
  • Scale what works: Collaborate with R&D to make successful solutions repeatable and scalable.
  • Stay at the frontier with Glean's R&D team: Shape platform evolution based on field insights.

What We're Looking For

  • 0-to-1 build track record: Built production software from scratch in ambiguous environments.
  • Production AI experience: Shipped AI solutions including prompt engineering, agents, evaluation, and deployment.
  • Full-stack technical depth: Strong programming skills and enterprise systems knowledge.
  • Business acumen: Identify problems and form product hypotheses independently.
  • Customer instinct: Build trust and communicate effectively at all levels.
  • Builder's judgment: Assess feasibility, timelines, and simplify for production.
  • Curiosity and scrappiness: Deep problem understanding and resourcefulness.
  • Experience: 4+ years in technical roles shipping production software.
  • Willingness to travel: 25–50%.

Nice to Have

  • Experience as founder, top-tier tech company, or forward deployed engineering.
  • Technical degree in CS, engineering, math, or related.
  • Deep familiarity with LLMs, retrieval systems, evaluation frameworks.
  • Driving tech adoption in large enterprises.

Compensation & Benefits

Standard range: $160,000-$270,000 annually (varies by location, level, skills, experience). Eligible for variable pay, equity, benefits including medical/dental/vision, PTO, 401k, stipends, events, lunches.

Skills

AILLMsPrompt EngineeringAgent DevelopmentFull-Stack DevelopmentEnterprise SystemsPythonJavaScriptKubernetesEvaluation Frameworks

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