# Founding Forward Deployed Engineer

**Company:** [Glean](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/glean)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** ML Engineering
**Salary:** $160k – $270k/yr
**Experience:** 4+ years
**Skills:** AI, LLMs, Prompt Engineering, Agent Development, Full-Stack Development, Enterprise Systems, Python, JavaScript, Kubernetes, Evaluation Frameworks
**Posted:** 2026-02-25

> 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.

## Job Description

## 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.

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