Emerge Career

Forward Deployed Engineer

New York, USA

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About the role

Our vision is to become the country's unified workforce development system, replacing disconnected brick-and-mortar job centers with one integrated, tech-powered solution that meets low-income individuals exactly where they are.
Today, the federal government spends billions annually on education and training programs, yet only about 70% of participants graduate, just 38.6% secure training-related employment, and average first-year earnings hover around $34,708.
By contrast, our seven-person team has already outperformed the job centers in two entire states (Vermont and South Dakota) in just the past year.

Strategy & Discovery Operate as a first-principles thinker: conduct market and vocational research to identify high-opportunity trades where Emerge can build new pathways.
Validate new vocation ideas using labor market data, wage trends, licensing requirements, and employer demand.
Stakeholder Engagement Engage directly with external partners - training vendors, employers, and credentialing bodies - to ensure programs are designed with end-to-end alignment.
Collaborate with internal ops and coaching teams to ensure field readiness for pilots.
Collaborate with other engineers to translate prototypes into scalable, production-ready systems.
Program Launch & Scale Lead the "first cohort" for each new vocation, combining product, data, and human touch to ensure success from enrollment through employment.
Build dashboards, automations, and integrations that make early manual processes scalable.
Document and codify what works - turning pilot learnings into SOPs, playbooks, and reusable infrastructure.
interviewing partners, testing assumptions, talking to students, and designing MVPs that unify strategy, ops, and technology.
You'll bridge the gap between our engineering team and our new program initiatives - ensuring what we build serves real people, in real contexts, with measurable impact.

recidivism, fueled by post-incarceration unemployment and poverty, and labor shortages in key industries.
Over 60% of formerly incarcerated people remain unemployed a year after incarceration, seeking work but not finding it.

Today, the federal government spends billions annually on education and training programs, yet only about 70% of participants graduate, just 38.6% secure training-related employment, and average first-year earnings hover around $34,708.

Emerge Career's mission is to break the cycle of poverty and incarceration.
Through an all-in-one platform deeply embedded within the criminal justice system, we recruit, train, and place justice-impacted individuals into life-changing careers.
With an 89% graduation rate and 92% of graduates securing training-related employment, our alumni aren't just getting jobs-they're launching new lives with average first-year earnings of $77,352.
The results speak for themselves, and we're just getting started.
Before Emerge, our founders Zo and Gabe co-founded Ameelio, an award-winning tech nonprofit that is dismantling the prison communication duopoly.
Backed by tech luminaries like Reid Hoffman, Vinod Khosla, and Jack Dorsey, and by major criminal-justice philanthropies such as Arnold Ventures and the Mellon Foundation, Ameelio became a recognized leader in the space.
After serving over 1M people impacted by incarceration, they witnessed firsthand the gap in second-chance opportunities and the chronic unemployment plaguing those impacted by the justice system.
Emerge Career is committed to solving this issue.
Our students are at the heart of our work.

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