Forge
Forward Deployed Engineer
San Francisco · Exec
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 177 days ago
LLMsValuationCommunication
About the role
- As a Forward Deployed Engineer at Poetic, you re-program entire companies.
- You are not measured by technical complexity nor lines of code, but by ownership of business outcomes.
- Agency, judgment, and customer understanding are just as valuable in this role as strong software engineering ability.
Responsibilities
- Write code and build production-grade processes using Poetic's primitives and platform, ensuring solutions meet customer requirements for quality and reliability
- Build long-term customer relationships and proactively identify new automation opportunities throughout engagements
Requirements
- You May Be a Good Fit If You Have
- 1+ years of experience in a technical, customer-facing role such as Forward Deployed Engineer, Technical Program Manager, or Software Engineer with consulting experience.
Nice to have
- Experience with LLMs, including prompt engineering or AI product deployment
- Experience in enterprise verticals
- Previous work in customer-facing roles
- Founder experience
- Series A at a $500mm valuation from Founders Fund, Kleiner Perkins, OpenAI, and other investors.
- We're a tight-knit team that works hard because we believe that the nature of how computers work for people will finally change
Skills
- Processes that once took hours can now be completed in a fraction of the time at superhuman quality.
Company info
- You will be Poetic to our customers - the person who delivers previously impossible outcomes.
- Conduct deep process discovery with customers, breaking down complex, ambiguous workflows into precise, automatable steps
- Iterate closely with customers and cross-functional partners to drive adoption from pilot to full production
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