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Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE)

Elevate · New York, NY · 6 mo ago
On-siteEngineering$110k–$150k/yrFull-time

About the role

Elevate is hiring Forward Deployed Engineers to build the AI systems that power the next generation of acquisitions. You'll work directly with customers to translate real-world complexity into scalable, agentic software, owning deployments end-to-end while shaping the core platform.

Responsibilities

  • Own customer deployments end-to-end — scoping, business logic translation, data ingestion, pipeline delivery, and ongoing optimization — working directly with mid-market to large-cap operators
  • Build and extend our agentic AI platform, in direct collaboration with our software engineering team
  • Support go-to-market by joining sales calls and identifying customer expansion opportunities

Requirements

  • 2+ years experience in consulting or finance, with a desire to grow your technical chops, or data engineering and analytics, with a desire to be directly customer-facing
  • Strong analytical fluency working with messy data in SQL and/or Excel
  • Excellent communication and business sense - you’re comfortable talking to CFOs and operators, not just engineers
  • Scrappy, autonomous, and action-oriented
  • Hungry to build
  • Have hands-on experience building with AI tools and LLM APIs, even for personal use
  • SQL and Python proficiency or a strong desire to get there quickly
  • You’ve built internal data platforms, migration pipelines, or agentic workflows
  • Experience in or exposure to private equity, roll-ups, or M&A

Qualifications

We're looking for individuals who are passionate about building the agentic system that we believe will end up running thousands of businesses across the real economy. This is a wide-aperture role, equally exciting for strong analytical minds from consulting or finance who know SQL and want to build with AI, and experienced data or AI engineers who want to work closer to the customer.

Skills

  • Python
  • SQL
  • Data Warehousing
  • ETL
  • Data Modeling
  • Data Analytics

Benefits

We offer competitive cash compensation and meaningful equity in an early-stage, high-growth company.

Pay

$110K - $150K

Schedule

Full-time

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