Hiring: Forward Deployed Engineer Company: People In AI Location: New York City Metropolitan Area Job Posted Time: 2026-09-14 18:02:24 Employment Type: On-site Target Skills & Keywords : HBase, Make About the job Required Skills: •This is a hands-on engineering role for someone who wants to solve difficult production problems close to real users rather than work several layers away from impact. •You’ll join while the company is still early enough to shape its engineering architecture and working practices, but at a point where customer demand and deployment volume are already creating significant technical challenges. •As a Forward Deployed Engineer, you’ll own the technical final mile between a reusable core platform and the specific systems, workflows, and constraints of individual public-sector customers. •You’ll work alongside product-focused deployment colleagues, turning real operating requirements into secure, scalable software while feeding repeated patterns back into the core platform. •What You’ll Do •Build production software that adapts a common platform to complex customer workflows and environments. •Translate ambiguous operational requirements into clear technical designs and working systems. •Architect integrations with legacy databases, APIs, infrastructure, and customer-owned systems. •Make pragmatic decisions about what should remain deployment-specific and what should become a reusable platform capability. •Partner with product and customer-facing colleagues to resolve technical questions and unblock deployments quickly. •Improve internal tooling and abstractions whenever repeated engineering work can be eliminated. •Use modern AI development tools to increase engineering velocity without outsourcing technical judgment to the model. •What You’ll Bring •Strong software engineering fundamentals and evidence that you have built and shipped meaningful systems end-to-end. •Evidence of owning and shipping production systems rather than contributing only to narrowly defined components. Compensation: •$175,000 •$200,000 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!