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Beacon Software

Head of Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE)

Pay not postedSan Francisco, CAOn-siteDirector

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About the job

Leads Beacon's forward-deployed engineering function across a portfolio of vertical software businesses, owning the team, operating doctrine, pod capacity allocation, and feedback loop into the shared AI platform.

Summary written from the posting.

What you’ll do

  • Define and enforce the FDE operating doctrine and engagement standards
  • Allocate roughly 1,000 engineering weeks across portfolio pods
  • Partner with pod product leaders on shared backlogs and technical sequencing
  • Turn field patterns into reusable platform primitives, playbooks, and agent workflows

What you’ll bring

  • Built and led a forward-deployed, solutions, or embedded engineering function for an AI or data platform
  • Shipped LLM-native software in production with evals, autonomy gating, and outcome tracking
  • Strong generalist engineering ability across unfamiliar codebases
  • Demonstrated ability to allocate scarce engineering capacity against business outcomes

Technologies

LLM-native software · LLM evaluations · autonomy gating · agent workflows · shared platform primitives · vertical SaaS

Pay and conditions

Posted pay
Pay not posted
Location
San Francisco, CA
Work arrangement
On-site
Employment type
Full-time

The work, as we read it

Kind of work
Deployment team leadership

Our reading of the posting, not the employer’s words.

How this compares

Beacon Software did not post a pay range. US FDE postings that do state one sit at $162,000–$230,000 across 1,730 postings.

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