Job Description
Job Description
We are looking for a Forward Deployed Engineer with 3-6 years of experience to embed directly with our portfolio companies, ship agentic software into live operations, and own the outcomes end-to-end. This is a Palantir-style FDE role at a software holding company — you're not writing decks, you're building running systems that compound across an entire portfolio.
What will you be doing?
- Embed with portfolio companies (portcos) to understand their operating model, earn operator trust, and identify the 2–3 highest-leverage workflow opportunities for agentic software.
- Ship the wedge — build integrations, prompts, evals, and UI surfaces to land the first agentic loop at each portco using our core platform.
- Operate and tune deployed systems post-launch, adjusting autonomy tiers and handing off cleanly to portfolio ops once stable.
- Serve as the technical face of this company to portco GMs — building trust, setting expectations, and ensuring the system is seen as their leverage.
- Bring patterns back to HQ and codify learnings into reusable playbooks that accelerate every future deployment in the same vertical.
Key Requirements
- Full-stack proficiency: TypeScript or Python backend, React frontend, SQL — must be able to own end-to-end delivery solo.
- Shipped production LLM/agentic software — real systems with evals, autonomy gating, and outcome tracking (not demos).
- Prior embedded or customer-facing engineering experience (e.g., Palantir FDE, solutions engineer, or deploy-and-operate model).
- Operator instincts — can read a P&L, translate business problems into technical wedges, and earn non-technical stakeholder trust quickly.
- Based in or willing to relocate to New York, NY; comfortable with frequent travel to portfolio company sites.
Tech stack:
TypeScript, Python, React, SQL, LLMs / Foundation Models, Agentic Workflows, Evals, Snowflake, Databricks, Apache Iceberg, Event-driven Systems
Seniority:
3 - 6 years of experience in full-stack, customer-facing software/product engineering OR forward deployed engineering
Work experience:
-Experience with strong tenure at a recognizable early/high-growth startup
-Generalist who has shipped end-to-end production LLM/agentic software to external users
-Exposure to PE, consulting, or vertical SaaS operator environments (portco, M&A integration, or similar)
-Strong Archetypes: ex-founder, founding engineer
-Big Tech (specifically for new grads)
Education:
Technical degree at a top university (for candidates with < 2 YOE)
Hard skills:
-AI-native with dev tooling and agents to automate manual workflows
-TypeScript or Python, React and SQL proficiency
-Programming in Go and TypeScript
Soft skills:
Strong executive presence & polished communication with C-Suite/GMs
Translates ambiguous non-technical problems into scoped technical solutions
Miscellaneous:
Comfortable traveling on-site to portco companies 2-3x days per week