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Cavendish Professionals lists this Founding Forward Deployed Engineer opportunity in new york, New York. Review the employer’s description below for duties, qualifications and application requirements.

Job description

Founding Forward Deployed Engineer

The following information provides an overview of the skills, qualities, and qualifications needed for this role.

New York City – On-site, 5 days per week

Early-Stage AI Startup | Founding Engineering Hire

We are partnering with a fast-growing AI startup in New York that is building an agentic platform designed to transform how enterprise businesses identify and execute revenue opportunities.

This is a particularly interesting opportunity for someone who sits at the intersection of data engineering, software engineering, AI and customers .

What you will be doing:

You will own customer deployments from initial data access through to production, including:

Exploring complex, undocumented data warehouses and understanding how the underlying data actually works

Mapping messy schemas onto real business concepts including ARR, churn, expansion and revenue

Writing and validating complex SQL across customer data environments

Building the semantic and ontology layers that sit between raw enterprise data and AI agents

Working with customer stakeholders to uncover tribal knowledge and resolve conflicting definitions of key metrics

Deploying production AI agent workflows and data pipelines into customer environments

Testing and validating outputs to ensure AI systems are reliable before they influence real business decisions

What we are looking for:

We are looking for an engineer with approximately 2–5 years of experience who is comfortable being given a difficult customer problem and owning the technical solution.

You should have:

Deep SQL and data warehouse experience

The ability to navigate messy, legacy or undocumented schemas independently

Experience with dbt and modern data engineering workflows

Strong Python skills

Experience building and shipping production data pipelines or software systems

Previous ownership of technical customer deployments, from initial discovery through implementation and proving value

Confidence working directly with technical and non-technical customer stakeholders

A strong quantitative academic background in Computer Science, Data Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Engineering or a related discipline

If you are interested, please click ‘Apply’ to submit an up-to-date copy of your CV.

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