Glean
Founding Forward Deployed Engineer
$160K–$270K
Remote - US +2 · Remote · Full-time · Posted Jan 21, 2026
- Location
- Remote - US
Mountain View, California, United States
San Francisco, California, United States - Experience
- 4+ years in technical roles with a track record of shipping production software.
- Education
- A technical degree in CS, engineering, math, or a related field is nice to have.
About the job
Build new AI product surfaces for strategic enterprise customers, from opportunity discovery through production deployment and scaling.
What you'll do
- Identify high-value customer problems and design, build, and ship new products from 0 to 1.
- Partner with customer executives to explain solutions, assess risks, and validate product hypotheses.
- Work with Glean’s R&D teams to scale successful solutions and inform product development.
What they ask for
- Track record of building production software from scratch in ambiguous environments.
- Production AI experience, including shipping AI-powered solutions beyond prototypes.
- Strong full-stack programming skills and understanding of enterprise systems.
- Business acumen, customer communication skills, and independent product judgment.
Nice to have
- Founder, top-tier technology company, or forward deployed engineering experience; familiarity with LLMs, retrieval systems, and evaluation frameworks; or experience driving technology adoption in large enterprises.
- Technical degree in CS, engineering, math, or a related field.
Pay
$160,000-$270,000 annually (base salary)
Tools
LLMs
AI focus
Build and deploy production AI solutions, including agent development, prompt engineering, and evaluation frameworks; create new AI product surfaces and scale successful solutions.
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