Clera
From company careers site
Founding Forward Deployed Engineer
- Location
- New York
- Work mode
- Remote
- Employment type
- Full-time
About the job
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.
- 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.
From Clera's careers page (Ashby), checked 31 Oct 2026.
How to apply
- Select Apply on getclera.com. It opens Clera's own application form in a new tab, run on Ashby.
- Fill in the form and upload your résumé there. Jobiwork never sees your application.
- Clera will reply to you directly. No real employer asks you for money to apply.
Posted 30 Oct 2026 · checked 31 Oct 2026 · Report this job
