# Staff Forward Deployed Engineer, GTM Platform

**Company:** [Upside](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/upside)
**Location:** New York, NY
**Role:** Solutions Architecture
**Salary:** $214k – $245k/yr
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** LLMs, Ai Apis, Prompt Design, React, TypeScript, Python, Agentic Orchestration, Retrieval-Augmented Generation, Vector Databases, Embedding-Based Search, Salesforce, HubSpot, Snowflake, Security, Infrastructure
**Posted:** 2026-08-12

> Build and own a zero-to-one AI-native platform for internal go-to-market teams, embedding with revenue operations to transform workflows and deliver measurable business outcomes. The role requires staff-level engineering depth, production LLM experience, and strong architectural judgment.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Build the first version of an AI-native platform for go-to-market teams, spanning agentic orchestration, automation, and revenue-team interfaces.
- Embed with revenue teams to understand workflows and design and ship systems that materially improve how work gets done.
- Own technical direction, including architecture decisions, tooling, and engineering patterns.
- Move prototypes into production quickly and iterate as AI capabilities evolve.
- Anchor work to business outcomes and measure success by the value the platform unlocks.
- Partner with security and infrastructure teams to ensure systems are sound and supportable.
- Document technical decisions and tradeoffs clearly.

## Requirements
- Staff-level engineering experience, approximately **8 years** or comparable depth, with a history of owning systems end to end.
- Experience taking greenfield systems, early-stage products, or internal platforms from zero to one.
- Production experience building with LLMs and AI APIs, including prompt design, output evaluation, and reliability iteration.
- Fluency with AI-assisted development tools.
- Strong technical judgment and the ability to refactor and change direction as requirements evolve.
- Genuine interest in business operations and revenue-team workflows.
- Ability to work independently amid ambiguity and bring stakeholders along.
- Clear communication with engineers and non-engineers.
- Willingness to work across programming languages; current prototypes use React, TypeScript, and Python.

## Nice to Haves
- Understanding of CRM and revenue data models, such as Salesforce or HubSpot.
- Experience as an early or founding engineer or as the builder of an internal tooling function.
- Familiarity with retrieval-augmented generation, vector databases, and embedding-based search.
- Experience in marketplace or high-growth environments.
- Experience with modern data platforms such as Snowflake.

## Compensation and Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage starting on Day 1.
- Equity through ISOs.
- 401(k) program.
- Family planning programs and paid parental leave.
- Physical fitness and wellness memberships.
- Emotional and mental health support programs.
- Unlimited PTO, 10 paid federal holidays, and an annual week-long Winter Break.
- Flexible work environment.
- Lunch reimbursement for in-office employees.
- Employee Resource Groups.
- Learning and Development stipend.

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