Founding Forward-Deployed Engineer

  • Wintermeyer Ventures
  • San Francisco, California
  • 10/23/2026
Full time Information Technology Telecommunications SAP Cisco

Job Description

Job Description Job Description About the Role

Join an early-stage industrial AI team as its first engineering hire after the founders. You will work directly with enterprise field teams to turn real-world technician workflows and undocumented knowledge into useful AI-powered tools for critical infrastructure.

What You'll Do
  • Work alongside field technicians to identify process and knowledge gaps, then structure information for AI applications.
  • Build practical integrations and retrieval-augmented generation pipelines connecting customer systems such as ServiceNow, SAP, Salesforce, and learning management platforms.
  • Create evaluations using real-world data and partner with engineering to improve AI models and features.
  • Own customer deployments from late-stage demonstrations and onboarding through production rollout and ongoing success.
  • Share field feedback with the product team and support adoption and change management in large organizations.
What We're Looking For
  • One to five years of experience in forward-deployed, solutions, or implementation engineering, with hands-on software development and customer-facing deployment work.
  • Experience deploying software for enterprise, industrial, energy, or defense customers, and taking deployments into production with measurable outcomes.
  • Hands-on experience building integrations or data pipelines across multiple systems using APIs, webhooks, ETL, or enterprise platforms such as ServiceNow, SAP, ERP, or CMMS.
  • Experience shipping LLM or RAG features into customer workflows and building evaluations to assess their performance.
  • Technical degree or equivalent demonstrated record of shipping deployments; strong modern AI skills, including agentic or retrieval-based systems.
  • Comfort working independently across customer delivery and early-stage product needs, and willingness to travel domestically about 25% of the time.
  • Founding or early-stage experience with responsibility for customer deployments and commercial outcomes is valuable.
Compensation & Benefits

Base salary: $160,000 to $245,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is available.

Location

On-site in San Francisco, United States.