Forward Deployed Engineer
SalesPatriot · San Francisco · onsite
USD 150,000 to 220,000 a year
THE MISSION
America's industrial base runs on systems built in the 1980s.
Billions of dollars in critical components (F-35 parts, industrial assemblies, electronics, bolts, and hoses) still move through email threads, excel sheets, and disconnected ERPs.
We're replacing that with an AI-native platform that makes aerospace, electronics, industrial, and defense supply-chain operations nearly autonomous. Faster quoting. Faster procurement. Full visibility. Real operational intelligence for the companies our nation depends on.
QUICK FACTS
- YC W25 company. Top 5% growth in batch
- Raised $10M+ from investors including Paul Graham, SV Angel, Pear VC, and CRV
- Team of 20 co-live in our Warsaw & SF Hacker Houses
- 7 figure ARR transacting ~$50M a week through our system
THE JOB
- Go. Fly out and plant yourself inside the customer's operation. Weekdays are onsite (Wisconsin, New York, Miami, Los Angeles); weekends we regroup at the SF HQ to debrief and keep building.
- Understand. Map how the company actually operates, from sales and supply chain teams to executives and CEOs. Learn the breakpoints choking their growth and speed.
- Implement. Configure automations within SP Studio tooling so the platform accurately reflects the customer's needs. Build trust and confidence in SalesPatriot.
- Iterate. Take ownership of customer implementation under the Lead FDE's guidance, learning how to scale impact. Keep finding and killing their most pressing problems, leading org-wide scaling, until SalesPatriot is the operating system their business runs on.
Work closely with your Lead FDE to navigate customer strategy, escalations, and org-wide issues.
WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR
- New grads welcome. What matters is that you've built and shipped things, so bring at least one full-stack project you can show us (GitHub repo, web app, or Loom demo).
- Strong in TypeScript and at least one frontend framework (React, Svelte, Next, etc). Comfortable with SQL, preferably Postgres.
- You want to learn the job from an experienced Lead FDE and grow into running your own customer implementations.
- Personable. You can sit with a procurement team, ask good questions, and come back with something that works. Customers look forward to your updates.
- Comfortable with ambiguity. The problem you solve on Tuesday may not be the one you flew in for on Monday.
- Ready to travel every week and relocate full-time to San Francisco. This is not a remote role.
- Absolute grinder. Interested in co-living (though not required).
- Low ego, curious, intellectually honest. Focused on outcomes, not on being right.
THE PROCESS
Call with engineer → 1hr technical test → Call with founder → fly out to SF HQ (on us) → offer.