Hiring: Forward Deployed Engineer (Founding) Company: Codesearch AI Location: New York City Metropolitan Area Job Posted Time: 2026-09-02 18:06:15 Employment Type: Contract Target Skills & Keywords : Compliance, HBase, Make, Python, REST, Rust, Shell About the job Experience: •2 years in a role that sits between engineering and the customer (FDE, Customer-Facing Software Engineer, Solution/Sales Engineering) Required Skills: •Based in New York, in person, five days a week. Roughly 20% travel - expect a couple of customer on-sites a quarter. •This role needs existing US work authorization Qualifications: •A consulting background paired with startup time, or an ex-founder / technical-generalist streak •A software engineer who's deliberately moving toward the customer-facing side •Worked in environments where security and compliance are core •Strong-school signal or standout internships (if you're on the lighter side of experience, real slope matters more than years) •You can gain a customer’s trust in a room, as an engineer. You’re technical enough to build and human enough to sell. You'd rather own an outcome than a ticket. You can hold a technical conversation and a commercial one in the same meeting, and you don't disappear when a deployment gets hard or a customer gets frustrated. You've shipped things that changed a business result. Compensation: •$180,000 •$250,000 Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!