Forward Deployed Engineer

About the role

You'll be one of GC AI's first Forward Deployed Engineers, which means you'll help define the function. You'll embed directly with customers to help them integrate GC AI into the workflows where legal work actually happens: contract review during procurement, compliance checks in vendor onboarding, automatic redlining before a deal goes out the door. The work looks different every week.

What You'll Do

• Work directly with customers to understand their legal and business workflows, systems, and technical requirements.
• Design and build integrations using the GC AI API, from prototype through production deployment.
• Help customers deploy GC AI into critical business processes, including contract review, procurement, vendor management, and compliance.
• Troubleshoot and debug customer integrations in real time.
• Identify repeatable deployment patterns and contribute them back to Product and Engineering as reusable platform capabilities.
• Create reference implementations, documentation, and best practices that help future customers move faster.
• Travel to customer sites as needed (up to 25%).

What We Value

• High agency. You operate autonomously, figure things out without a roadmap, and thrive when the path isn't clear.
• High cooperation. You work well across teams of technical and non-technical people, balancing competing priorities without losing momentum.
• Product instinct. You can tell the difference between a one-off customer request and a pattern that should become a platform feature.
• Solving real problems, not building demos. You care about whether the integration actually works in production on Monday morning, not whether the architecture diagram looks elegant.

What We Require

• 3+ years of experience building and shipping production software.
• Experience working directly with customers, users, or stakeholders to design and deliver technical solutions (FDE, solutions engineering, consulting, or technical founder backgrounds all count).
• Strong programming skills in TypeScript or Python and ideally one or more additional languages.
• Hands-on experience with APIs, integrations, webhooks, or platform products.
• Able to lead technical projects with a high degree of ownership and ambiguity.
• Clear communication of technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Nice to Have

• Experience building workflow automation systems.
• Experience working on APIs, SDKs, or developer platforms.
• Experience with AI products or LLM-powered applications.
• Experience in legal technology, compliance, procurement, or enterprise software.
• Experience designing systems that connect multiple products, services, or internal tools.