Forward Deployed Engineer

Why This Role Exists

The intelligence now exists. And the things built to consume it are arriving faster than we projected — ChatGPT Apps, Apple App Intents, Gemini extensions, Claude connectors, agent frameworks that discover tools over MCP (the open standard agents use to find and call external tools). When an AI agent needs to know whether a coupon actually works or a product claim is actually true, somebody's verified answer becomes the default. We intend it to be ours. Today every commercial conversation that makes that happen runs through the founder. That's the gap. Someone has to own turning verified commerce truth into revenue: agent-platform distribution deals, MCP and API monetization — first paid integrations targeted this year — and the commercial architecture that keeps revenue structurally separated from truth.

The System You'll Need to Model

• $22M/yr affiliate commerce engine. SimplyCodes — 400K+ stores, billions in annual transaction volume, and a verified-coupon truth signal becoming the default source for AI shopping agents.
• The agent-platform landscape. ChatGPT Apps, Apple App Intents, Gemini extensions, Claude connectors, MCP directories.
• The economics of selling truth to machines. Who pays — the agent platform, the merchant, the consumer surface? What gets metered? What is a verified answer worth at each layer of the stack?

Who You Are

• Your leverage is judgment and taste, not activity. You treat a deal as a systems-integration problem: you independently build a working model of an agent platform's tool-selection behavior, a merchant's margin math, our API surface — and you notice fast where your model is wrong and update it without ego.
• You write clearly, because clear writing is evidence of clear thought, and most of this job's leverage is written — proposals, integration specs, pricing memos, the playbook itself. You move between the commercial conversation and the terminal without getting stuck in either.
• You can stand up the MCP integration, run the demo, and read the logs yourself — you sell only integrations you can run with your own hands. For everything beyond your own hands you treat AI agents as leverage you direct and verify: pipeline research, partner dossiers, integration scaffolding, first-draft proposals, all querying our shared knowledge base so they answer their own questions instead of asking you.

How We Evaluate

• No traditional sales interviews. Written artifact. Your strongest written work comes in with your application. Writing quality is the first filter — a deal narrative, an integration proposal that closed something, a pricing model with the reasoning attached, a partnership architecture. Something that shows how you think, not just what you've closed.
• Video screen. Brief and async: 5–6 questions, about 15 minutes, whenever works for you.
• Calls with company stakeholders. Short conversations with key members of the team.
• A conversation with the founder.

Compensation & Ownership

• Total first-year comp: $300,000 – $425,000 (base + equity + profit sharing).
• Base: $200,000 – $250,000.
• Profits Interest Units (PIUs) — Class B Membership Interests at $0 strike, real ownership day one, capital-gains treatment; annual pro-rata profit sharing from free cash flow; annual tender liquidity; 100% family premium coverage; effectively unlimited token budget, steered by ROI, never capped.