Glean
Founding Forward Deployed Engineer
$160K–$270K
Mountain View, CA +3 · Remote · Full-time · Posted Jan 21, 2026
- Location
- Mountain View, CA
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
Build new AI-powered product surfaces for strategic enterprise customers, from opportunity discovery through production deployment and scaling.
What you'll do
- Identify customer business problems and design and ship new products to address them.
- Partner with customer executives and Glean product and engineering teams to validate opportunities and shape platform development.
- Make successful solutions repeatable and scalable with the core R&D team.
What they ask for
- Production software built from scratch in ambiguous environments, with evidence of real-world use at scale.
- Production AI experience, including prompt engineering, agent development, evaluation frameworks, and deployment at scale.
- 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; former technical founders are encouraged to apply.
- Technical degree in CS, engineering, math, or related field; familiarity with LLMs, retrieval systems, and evaluation frameworks; enterprise technology adoption experience.
Pay
$160,000-$270,000 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
LLMs
AI focus
Build and deploy production AI solutions, including agents, and develop new AI product surfaces for enterprise customers.
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