$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 workflow discovery through go-live, connecting the platform to customers’ operations and integration systems.
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Posted base pay
Not posted
Median $188K
Typical senior FDE payMiddle 50% of 1,837 postings$160K–$219KThe 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 only13%
- On-site37%
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 Founding Forward Deployed Engineer. You will connect the platform with customers' operations teams, owning implementations from workflow discovery through go-live and helping turn field insights into product improvements.
What You'll Do
- Own customer onboarding end to end, including discovery, integration, configuration, testing, and go-live.
- Work directly with operators to map purchase-order-to-cash workflows and design platform configurations for 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 customer implementation insights with engineering to inform product improvements.
What We're Looking For
- At least 3 years in forward deployed engineering, solutions engineering, implementation engineering, technical onboarding, or a similar customer-facing technical role.
- Experience owning customer onboarding from discovery through deployment and go-live.
- Technical fluency with APIs, data models, SQL, and integration debugging, with the ability to read and write code.
- Hands-on experience building or troubleshooting integrations across EDI, ERP, inventory, accounting, and freight systems.
- Ability to map purchase-order-to-cash workflows and turn complex operational needs into clear technical solutions.
- Experience in consumer packaged goods, supply chain, logistics, or ERP integrations is valuable.
- Strong systems thinking, ownership, and comfort working through ambiguity and complex customer challenges.
Compensation & Benefits
Base 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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