Forward Deployed Engineer
Role Overview
Own the technical customer relationship at an AI data platform for investors. You'll embed directly with private equity, private credit, and venture capital firms — building custom integrations on their data, demoing complex data infrastructure to C-level stakeholders, and driving real outcomes.
Responsibilities
- Build and demo custom solutions on customer data — connecting structured and unstructured sources
- Own pre-sales technical work: build reusable demo environments, run private demos on prospect data
- Post-sales: work alongside engineers on implementations, data integrations, and customer feedback loops
- Drive technical relationship management — sit with analysts at PE firms, understand their workflows
- Act as the voice of the customer, identifying what should be productised vs. one-off
Ideal Background
3-8 years of experience in a technical, customer-facing role (FDE, Solutions Engineer, Sales Engineer). SQL and Python proficiency required. Experience in financial services (PE, VC, credit) highly preferred. High agency, founder mindset.
Interview Process
Recruiter chat, technical screen, presentation skills assessment, onsite with engineering collaboration
Why Join
Build the AI data platform for the world's most sophisticated investors, solving hard problems at the data layer. Backed by top-tier VCs with only ~15 employees. Work directly with founders and have real agency to build the technical go-to-market function from scratch.
About the Company
Our client is a Series A AI & Financial Data startup