Founding Senior Manager, Forward Deployed Engineering
$203,745–$275,655San Francisco, CAHybridSenior
View posting at AfreshAbout the job
Found and lead Afresh's forward deployed engineering function, embedding AI systems inside large U.S. grocers and turning customer-specific deployments into a repeatable platform architecture.
Summary written from the posting.
What you’ll do
- Build, hire, and lead a forward deployed engineering team from the ground up
- Direct execution and staffing across concurrent enterprise customer engagements
- Own technical relationships, delivery roadmaps, and architecture with customer engineering and data leaders
- Define shared deployment architecture, production standards, and customer-cloud exceptions
What you’ll bring
- 10+ years in software engineering, solutions architecture, consulting, or technical customer-facing roles
- 2+ years managing engineers in a services, post-sales, or forward deployed organization
- Experience building and scaling a team from 0 to 1
- Fluency in SQL and a modern cloud data platform such as Databricks, BigQuery, or Snowflake
Technologies
SQL · Databricks · BigQuery · Snowflake · LLM · retrieval · agentic workflows · knowledge graphs · ontologies · semantic layers
About Afresh
AI platform for grocers that optimizes fresh-food ordering, inventory, merchandising and supply chain to cut shrink, lift sales and reduce food waste.
Private Late · 100–200 people
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