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GleanGleanNew York, NY

Founding Forward Deployed Engineer

Founding forward deployed engineer builds 0-to-1 AI products for strategic enterprise customers, partnering with C-suite and R&D. Requires 4+ years experience, production AI shipping, full-stack skills, and business acumen; hybrid NYC with 25-50% travel.

160k – 270k/yr
Hybrid4+ YOEML Engineering

About the role

The Opportunity\n\nJoin as a founding member of Glean's forward deployed team to discover and build next-generation product surfaces. Work with Forward Deployed PMs and C-suite at strategic customers to identify unsolved business problems and create new products that ship globally.\n\n## What You'll Do\n- Discover and build Glean's next product surfaces: Perform 0-to-1 product creation, extending the platform to solve unique problems.\n- Lead deep opportunity discovery: Analyze business issues, form hypotheses, and validate with stakeholders.\n- Be a technical partner to the C-suite: Build trust and communicate technical plans clearly to executives.\n- Scale what works: Collaborate with R&D to make successful solutions repeatable and scalable.\n- Stay at the frontier with Glean's R&D team: Shape platform evolution based on field insights.\n\n## Who You Are\nThink like a founder: curious, scrappy, with full-stack depth and business acumen. Comfortable in CEO discussions and codebases, with proven shipping experience.\n\n## What We're Looking For\n- 0-to-1 build track record in ambiguous environments.\n- Production AI experience (prompt engineering, agents, evaluation, deployment).\n- Full-stack technical depth and enterprise systems knowledge.\n- Business acumen and customer instinct.\n- Builder's judgment, curiosity, and scrappiness.\n- Experience: 4+ years in technical roles shipping production software.\n- Willingness to travel 25–50%.\n\n## Nice to Have\n- Founder experience, top-tier tech company, or forward deployed engineering.\n- Technical degree (CS, engineering, math).\n- Deep LLM, retrieval systems, evaluation frameworks knowledge.\n- Enterprise technology adoption experience.\n\n## Compensation & Benefits\n$160,000-$270,000 annually (varies by level, location, skills). Includes medical, dental, vision, 401k, stipends, time-off, events, daily lunches. Equity and variable pay possible.

Skills

AILLMsPrompt EngineeringAgent DevelopmentFull-Stack DevelopmentPythonJavaScriptEnterprise SystemsRetrieval SystemsEvaluation Frameworks

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