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GleanGleanUnited States

Founding Forward Deployed Engineer

Founding engineer builds 0-to-1 AI product surfaces for strategic enterprise customers, conducts deep business discovery, partners with C-suite, and scales solutions with R&D. Requires 4+ years experience, production AI shipping, full-stack skills, and business acumen.

160k – 270k/yr
Hybrid4+ 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, working with Forward Deployed PMs, C-suite executives, and Glean's engineering teams.

What You'll Do

  • Discover and build Glean's next product surfaces: Create 0-to-1 products from scratch to solve customer problems.
  • Lead deep opportunity discovery: Analyze business problems and form testable hypotheses.
  • Be a technical partner to the C-suite: Build trust and communicate technical solutions effectively.
  • Scale what works: Collaborate with R&D to make solutions repeatable and scalable.
  • Stay at the frontier with Glean's R&D team: Shape platform capabilities based on field insights.

What We're Looking For

  • 0-to-1 build track record with production software at scale.
  • Production AI experience (prompt engineering, agent development, evaluation frameworks).
  • Full-stack technical depth and enterprise systems knowledge.
  • Business acumen to identify problems and form product hypotheses.
  • Customer instinct to build trust across organization levels.
  • Builder's judgment for scoping and execution.
  • Curiosity and scrappiness.
  • Experience: 4+ years in technical roles shipping production software.
  • Willingness to travel 25–50%.

Nice to Have

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

Compensation & Benefits

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

Skills

AILLMsPrompt EngineeringAgent DevelopmentFull-Stack DevelopmentPythonJavaScriptEnterprise SystemsRetrieval SystemsEvaluation Frameworks

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