$120,000–$190,000
Founding Forward Deployed Engineer
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Pay not postedNew York, NYOn-site
The Founding Forward Deployed Engineer owns customer implementations from discovery through go-live, partnering with consumer packaged goods operations teams to improve wholesale workflows.
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Posted base pay
Not posted
Median $188K
Typical senior FDE payMiddle 50% of 1,748 postings$160K–$220KThe work
Builds what the customer runs
Balance
- Mostly building
- Mixed
- Mostly pre-sales or support
Project stages
- Pre-sales (not covered)
- Proof of concept (not covered)
- Implementation
- Operations (not covered)
- Coding
- Configuration only
- Builds for
- External customers
- Level
- Senior
- Role
- Individual contributor
What they ask for
Experience
Background
Tools
Visa
Less common in FDE jobs
- Coding work: Configuration only14%
- On-site37%
- Individual contributor or manager: Individual contributor50%
Share of US FDE postings that state each fact.
The job description from Clera
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About the Role
Join an early-stage AI company serving the consumer packaged goods sector as a technical partner to customer operations teams. You will own implementations from initial discovery through go-live, helping customers improve their wholesale workflows and shaping product capabilities through insights from the field.
What You'll Do
- Lead customer onboarding from discovery and integration through configuration, testing, and go-live.
- Work with operators to map purchase-order-to-cash workflows and determine how the platform should support their needs.
- Build and troubleshoot integrations across EDI, ERP, inventory, accounting, and freight systems.
- Translate operational requirements into data models, configurations, and product capabilities.
- Share implementation learnings with engineering and help turn customer feedback into product improvements.
What We're Looking For
- At least 3 years of experience in forward deployed engineering, solutions engineering, implementation engineering, technical onboarding, or a similar customer-facing technical role.
- Experience owning customer onboarding end to end, from discovery through deployment and go-live.
- Hands-on experience integrating EDI with ERP, inventory, accounting, and freight systems, ideally in CPG, supply chain, logistics, or wholesale operations.
- Working knowledge of APIs, data models, SQL, and integration debugging, with the ability to read and write code as needed.
- Strong systems thinking and comfort navigating ambiguity, operational complexity, and changing priorities.
Compensation & Benefits
Salary range: $0 to $200,000 USD annually. Visa sponsorship is not available.
Location
On-site in New York, United States.
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