Forward Deployed Engineer - Applied AI

What You’ll Do

• Work directly with users and internal teams to identify high-leverage problems and ship product solutions.
• Write production code (approximately 50% of your time) and ship weekly improvements across the customer journey.
• Use tools like Widesurf, Cursor, and other AI accelerators to increase your velocity and quality of output.
• Build and deploy AI-powered tooling that eliminates manual effort and improves the experience for providers, parents, and government partners.
• Automate onboarding flows, proposal generation, reporting processes, and other operational workflows.
• Own full loops: talk to users, design solutions, write code, test, deploy, and monitor adoption.
• Prioritize based on business impact and collaborate across teams to drive measurable results.

What Success Looks Like

• Uncover user pain points faster than anyone else and consistently ship solutions that address them.
• Deploy AI-infused internal tools or product experiences that improve core metrics (conversion, retention, revenue).
• Fully own feedback loops, from discovery to deployment, and iterate rapidly.
• Internal teams rely on your tools to operate faster and with fewer resources.
• Moving fast, staying close to the customer, and operating with very little hand-holding.

Who You Are

• A builder and founder at heart, you’ve started a company, built products that got users, or made revenue independently.
• Comfortable talking to users weekly and distilling insight into product decisions.
• Technical enough to ship production code on your own, experience with Python, JavaScript, or similar languages.
• Experienced using AI/LLMs and developer tools like Windsurf and Cursor to move faster and smarter.
• Business-minded, you’ve worked in consulting, managed a P&L, or attended business school and know how to prioritize based on ROI.
• Comfortable operating in ambiguity and energized by a high-trust, high-impact, in-person environment.