# Founding Forward Deployed Engineer

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

> 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.

## Job Description

## 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.

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