Minerva
Forward Deployed Engineer
$215K–$241K
New York City · On-site · Full-time · Posted Oct 27, 2026
- Experience
- 4+ years as a data scientist or data engineer shipping to production.
About the job
Builds custom data pipelines and models for complex enterprise customers, runs production scoring, and turns successful one-off solutions into reusable product patterns.
What you'll do
- Build custom data ingestion and pipelines, assess data readiness, and own production scoring accuracy.
- Develop customer-specific predictive models and build new capabilities needed for account expansions.
- Convert custom solutions into reusable patterns and explain the technical work to customer data teams.
What they ask for
- 4+ years as a data scientist or data engineer shipping production work in a data-heavy setting.
- Strong Python and SQL; experience with dbt, an orchestrator such as Dagster or Airflow, and a cloud warehouse.
- Experience building predictive models and assessing whether customer data can support them.
- Experience with messy, multi-source data and direct work with customers or non-technical stakeholders.
Nice to have
- Consumer data, identity graphs, adtech or martech; experiment design involving holdouts and lift measurement.
- Forward deployed, solutions or consulting experience at a data company; experience in sports, financial services or travel.
Pay
$215,000–$241,000 USD base salary; variable bonus targeted at 10% of base (amount not specified)
Tools
Python, SQL, dbt, Dagster, Airflow, Snowflake, BigQuery, Databricks
AI focus
Builds custom predictive models using customers’ first-party data and Minerva’s consumer graph; supports AI-powered marketing workflows.
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