Accrete

Accrete

Forward Deployed Engineer

New York, NY · Senior

Sponsorship not specified$160k-$200kDetected 6 days ago
JavaScriptTypeScriptPythonReactNode.jsFull-Stack DevelopmentMachine LearningData EngineeringLLMsAgentic AIResearchCommunicationCollaborationProblem Solving

Responsibilities

  • Own technical delivery across complex customer deployments from first prototype to stable production use.
  • Own planning, staffing, prioritization, and delivery governance for forward deployed engineering engagements.
  • Partner directly with customer engineering, technical, operational, and domain teams to understand workflows, constraints, and success criteria.
  • Design and build full-stack systems, integrations, configurations, and deployment workflows that deliver measurable customer value.
  • Support production rollout, adoption, monitoring, troubleshooting, and iteration in customer environments.
  • Translate field learnings into reusable tools, playbooks, implementation patterns, and technical building blocks for other deployments.
  • Collaborate with Deployment Strategy to connect business outcomes and technical execution.
  • Support deployments in regulated environments, including environments with complex security and infrastructure constraints.
  • Proactively identifying challenges, you drive solutions rather than waiting for direction, and hold yourself and others to the highest standards for delivering results.
  • With strategic thinking and a problem-solving mindset, you make informed decisions leveraging data and expertise, always looking for ways to improve processes, optimize workflows, and enhance outcomes beyond your immediate responsibilities.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of engineering, technical deployment, solutions architecture, or customer-facing technical delivery experience.
  • Proficiency with Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, Node.js, React, or comparable modern engineering stacks.
  • Experience scoping, designing, and delivering complex technical systems in fast-moving or ambiguous environments.
  • Strong understanding of APIs, data integrations, system architecture, cloud or on-prem environments, and production operations.
  • Ability to simplify complex problems, make sound technical decisions under pressure, and communicate clearly with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Strong ownership mindset and ability to operate with limited oversight while keeping internal and customer teams aligned.
  • Ability to identify risk early, adjust plans, and protect delivery outcomes without slowing progress.
  • Ability to travel up to 50% based on customer and deployment needs.

Nice to have

  • Experience deploying AI, LLM, knowledge graph, semantic search, or agentic workflow systems in production.
  • Experience with enterprise security, compliance, identity, networking, data governance, or regulated deployment environments.
  • Experience creating reusable deployment patterns, internal tools, technical playbooks, or implementation frameworks.
  • Startup experience or experience working in high-growth, high-ambiguity environments.
  • Lower Manhattan,
  • NY (4 days per week in the office) Accrete is an agentic managed services company:
  • an AI workforce that does high-stakes, judgement-heavy work for government and enterprise clients - at the economics of software, not labor.
  • Expert agents reason against that ground truth to act on complex, high-stakes decisions - not just answer questions about them.

Compensation

  • 160k-200k The salary range provided reflects the estimated compensation for this role based on the expected qualifications and experience level.

Benefits

  • Health, dental, and vision coverage for you and your family 401(k)
  • Build your financial future with our retirement savings plan
  • Take time off when needed and enjoy remote flexibility per company guidelines

Company info

  • At the core is Accrete's Knowledge Engine, a dynamic context graph that captures an organization's tacit knowledge, resolves data across silos, and builds a living, auditable ground truth.
  • From national security to commercial operations, Accrete delivers the work on one platform, with unlimited expert agents and expert judgement.
  • About the Role Accrete is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to lead complex technical deployments with strategic customers.
  • In this role, you will own the technical path from discovery and scoping through system design, hands-on build, integration, rollout, and production stabilization.
  • You will write and review production-grade code, make architecture decisions, troubleshoot deployment challenges, and help customers adopt what you build.
  • This is a hands-on engineering role for someone who can operate independently, manage complex technical ambiguity, and coordinate across teams to deliver customer outcomes.
  • Travel up to 50% may be required.

Equal opportunity

  • equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.

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