Founding Forward Deployed Engineer
At Clera · New York; New York, United States
Salary: US$180,000–250,000 a year
- Engineering
- Full-time
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Job description
From Clera’s job post, as they wrote it.
About the Role
Own customer deployments for an early-stage SaaS company, from understanding business goals and connecting to data through delivering a trusted system with measurable impact. The role brings together data engineering, applied AI, and customer success, while also building reusable tools and practices to improve future deployments.
What You'll Do
* Partner with revenue and operations leaders to understand business objectives and identify valuable problems to solve.
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* Lead customer onboarding, scope data access, and map undocumented warehouse schemas to business concepts.
* Interview customer data and business teams to reconcile conflicting definitions and validate the resulting ontology.
* Build customer-facing signals and workflows, including custom agent configurations, and troubleshoot their outputs.
* Agree on success measures, analyze results, and build a credible evidence-based case for customer impact.
* Develop reusable validation frameworks, evaluation harnesses, and mapping tools to accelerate deployments.
What We're Looking For
* At least 3 years of experience in a technical, customer-facing role such as forward deployed engineering, solutions engineering, or software engineering with substantial customer exposure.
* Strong SQL and dbt skills, with deep familiarity navigating data warehouses and undocumented schemas.
* A quantitative degree in statistics, mathematics, computer science, or a comparable field, plus a foundation in data science or machine learning.
* Applied statistics and modeling experience, including distributions, seasonality, validation design, and calibration.
* Experience creating custom agent setups beyond default implementations and building analytical cases tied to customer outcomes.
* Ability to resolve inconsistent business definitions through interviews and data validation, with careful attention to detail and comfort working through ambiguity.
* Founder experience or a non-traditional path into engineering is a plus.
Compensation & Benefits
Base salary is $180,000 to $250,000 USD annually. Visa sponsorship is not available.
Location
On-site in New York City, United States.
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