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# Forward Deployed Engineer

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Clera posts a FDE role to prove the product works before the sale in New York, NY with no pay posted. Leads enterprise customer engagements for an early-stage AI infrastructure team, translating customer data and deployment needs into proofs of value and production deployments.

- [Clera](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/clera)

Posted Oct 31, 2026 by Clera

Pay not posted New York, NY Hybrid Full-time

Leads enterprise customer engagements for an early-stage AI infrastructure team, translating customer data and deployment needs into proofs of value and production deployments.

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## At a glance

### The work

Proves it works before the sale

Balance **Mixed**

Project stages

1. Pre-sales
2. Proof of concept
3. Implementation
4. Operations (not covered)

Travel **Required, amount not stated**

- **Coding**: Prototypes and scripts

- **Builds for**: External customers

- **Level**: Senior

- **Role**: Technical lead

### What they ask for

Experience

- **5+ years** professional experience
- **2+ years** hands-on engineering or data work

Background

- **Software engineering**
- **Implementation and data engineering**

Tools

- **Python**
- **SQL**
- **LLMs**
- **agentic systems**
- **data warehouses**
- **ETL/ELT**
- **knowledge graphs**
- **semantic layers**
- **ontologies**
- **entity resolution**

## Conditions

- **Location**: New York, NY

- **Work arrangement**: Hybrid

- **Remote work restrictions**: Hybrid, based in New York, United States; regular travel to customer sites across the UK and Europe.

- **Employment type**: Full-time

- **Travel**: Travel required, amount not stated

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## What you’ll do

- Lead customer discovery and assess data architectures and deployment requirements.
- Deliver proofs of value from technical validation through production commitments.
- Demonstrate products and address technical objections with enterprise stakeholders.
- Translate customer constraints into actionable product feedback for engineering.

## What you’ll bring

- At least 5 years of professional experience, including 2 to 3 years in hands-on engineering or data work.
- Record of converting enterprise B2B software proofs of value into production commitments.
- Strong knowledge of enterprise data warehouses, ETL or ELT pipelines, and data governance.
- Experience leading technical discovery and demos and delivering proofs of concept through production deployment.

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