Glean
Founding Forward Deployed Engineer
$160K–$270K
New York, NY +3 · Remote · Full-time · Posted Feb 9, 2026
- Location
- New York, NY
Mountain View, California, United States
Remote - US
San Francisco, California, United States - Experience
- 4+ years in technical roles with a track record of shipping production software.
About the job
Builds new AI-powered products for strategic enterprise customers, from opportunity discovery and prototyping through production scaling, while shaping Glean’s product roadmap.
What you'll do
- Identify customer problems and design and ship new product surfaces from 0 to 1.
- Partner with customer executives to explain product proposals, expected outcomes, and risks.
- Make successful solutions repeatable with Glean’s core R&D, engineering, and product teams.
What they ask for
- Track record of building production software from scratch in ambiguous environments.
- Production AI experience, including prompt engineering, agent development, evaluation, and deployment at scale.
- Strong full-stack programming skills and understanding of enterprise systems.
- Business acumen and ability to build customer trust and communicate with stakeholders at different levels.
Nice to have
- Founder, top-tier technology company, or forward deployed engineering experience; experience driving enterprise technology adoption.
- Deep familiarity with LLMs, retrieval systems, and evaluation frameworks; a technical degree in CS, engineering, math, or a related field.
Pay
$160,000-$270,000 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
LLMs
AI focus
Build and ship production AI-powered products, including agent development, prompt engineering, evaluation frameworks, and deployment at scale.
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