Senior Software Engineer
cavendish professionalsNew York (NY)
About the role
đ Founding Forward Deployed Engineer | NYCIâm working with an exciting AI startup that is building autonomous revenue teams using AI agents, and theyâre looking for their first Founding Forward Deployed Engineer. This is a highly hands-on role where youâll own customer deployments end-to-end, working directly with customer data and helping turn complex business requirements into working AI solutions.
What youâll be doing:
- Own end-to-end customer deployments, from data access and schema mapping through to proving value
- Work closely with customers and stakeholders to understand their data and business requirements
- Build and deploy production data pipelines and systems
- Work extensively with SQL, data warehouses and dbt
- Help deploy and customise AI agents and LLM-powered workflows
- Contribute to the development of the wider platform and deployment processes
- Troubleshoot messy, undocumented data environments and turn them into actionable insights What theyâre looking for:
- 2â5 yearsâ experience in FDE, Data Science, Solutions Engineering, Customer Engineering or a similar technical role
- Strong SQL and data warehouse experience
- Solid Python and applied data science fundamentals
- Experience working with production systems and/or data pipelines
- Customer-facing experience and the ability to manage technical conversations with stakeholders
- AI-native mindset, with hands-on experience using AI coding tools and/or building agent-driven workflows
- Comfortable working with complex, messy data and doing detailed data validation
Tech stack includes:
SQL | Python | dbt | Data Warehousing | LLMs | AI Agents | Eval Frameworksđ Tribeca, New York City â 5 days onsiteđ° $180Kâ$250K base + competitive equityđ Relocation support availableđ Full-time | Founding teamđ Open to visa transfers, including OPT and H1B transfers If youâre interested in getting in early at an AI company and having a direct impact on customer deployments and the product itself, get in touch.
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