$185,000–$300,000
Member of Technical Staff, Forward-Deployed Engineering
Updated
$175,000–$350,000New York, NYOn-site
Quadrillion Labs is hiring a Forward-Deployed Engineer to deploy Qualia, an agentic research intelligence platform, into customer environments.
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At a glance
Posted base pay
$175K–$350KAbove the median
Median $190K
This job$175K–$350KTypical senior FDE payMiddle 50% of 1,789 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
- Implementation
- Operations
- Coding
- Writes production code
- Builds for
- External customers
- Level
- Senior
- Role
- Individual contributor
What they ask for
Tools
Less common in FDE jobs
- Company size: About 1–50 people9%
- Company stage: Early12%
- On-site37%
- Covers proofs of concept40%
Share of US FDE postings that state each fact.
The job description from Quadrillion
Posted by Quadrillion on
As a Forward-Deployed Engineer at Quadrillion Labs, you'll represent our company in our work with our highly varied set of customers. This is not a traditional FDE role: we are looking for folks who combine enormous technical excellence with deep empathy and an ability to work with customers from a wide variety of verticals. You'll work closely with the core engineering and product teams to triage features and identify ways to improve customer outcomes.
What you'll do
- Deploy Qualia into customers' real environments. Stand up Qualia in unusual enterprise environments, connect to their unique data sources, and navigate their (both engineering and business) constraints.
- Build what customers need to succeed. Prototype integrations and workflows that answer customer needs, and transfer your learnings into production for all of our customers.
- Manage customer/product relations. Be the first line of defense for the company; speak to our customers in Slack, over email, and in person, and get them excited about using Qualia.
Required qualifications
- Strong full-stack or backend engineering experience, especially with Python
- Previous experience as a FDE or previous experience in a strongly customer-facing role
- Comfort working in unfamiliar codebases
- Ability to move quickly in a zero-to-one environment
About this role
We work in-person 5 days a week out of our office in Midtown Manhattan. We cover generous benefits for employees, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, lunch and dinner covered, and other varied stipends.
We pride ourselves on a company culture that values a diversity of thoughts and opinions.
About Quadrillion
Quadrillion Labs builds Qualia, an agentic research intelligence platform that does real computational research — running experiments, analyzing data, and surfacing insight for the people who do this work at the highest level.
We're a team out of Stanford NLP, HRT, Citadel, Jane Street, Google Research, and Harvard Med, building for an audience that looks a lot like us. We've raised ~$18M from Conviction, Audacious, Bloomberg Beta, ex/ante, and angels including Wes McKinney, the creator of pandas. We're ~10 people in NYC, scaling to ~15 in the coming months.
We think this is the Industrial Revolution moment for research, and we're building the team to define what comes next.
Equal Employment Opportunity
Quadrillion Labs is an equal opportunity employer. We make hiring and employment decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law. We are committed to building a team where talented people can do their best work.
If you need a reasonable accommodation during the application or interview process, let us know at careers@quadrillion.io.
About Quadrillion
Quadrillion builds Qualia, an autonomous research platform that runs experiments, analyzes data, and helps researchers discover new directions.
Seed · 10–50 people
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