Raydar
Founding Forward Deployed Engineer
$200K–$300K
New York, New York +1 · Full-time · Posted Aug 7, 2026
- Location
- New York, New York
Chicago, Illinois - Experience
- 3 to 5 years of hands-on software engineering or forward-deployed engineering experience.
- Visa sponsorship
- Candidates must already be authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship.
About the job
Build and deploy applied-AI products across portfolio software companies, turning successful implementations into reusable platform capabilities.
What you'll do
- Discover business needs with executives and operators, then build AI workflows and own deployments through adoption.
- Work on-site with customer teams and develop shared data models, ontologies, and workflow infrastructure.
- Partner with company leadership to execute applied-AI strategy and establish the Forward Deployed Engineering function.
What they ask for
- 3 to 5 years of hands-on software engineering or forward-deployed engineering experience.
- Track record leading technical deployments from discovery through production and adoption.
- Strong full-stack engineering, systems architecture, and data-pipeline fundamentals; experience with LLMs, applied machine learning, or AI workflow systems.
- Ability to work with C-level customers, translate ambiguous needs into products, and travel frequently to customer sites.
Nice to have
- Experience productizing patterns across deployments or customers.
- Experience with vertical SaaS, enterprise software, ontology-driven platforms, or building an engineering team.
Pay
$200,000 to $300,000 USD base salary
Tools
LLMs
AI focus
Build and deploy applied-AI products and workflows, including work with LLMs, applied machine learning, and reusable AI platform capabilities.
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