Engineering Full-Time

Forward Deployed Engineer (New York)

Beacon Software • New York, NY

Company

Beacon Software

Annual salary

$185k – $240k/yr

Location

New York, NY

Listed

135d ago

Experience:: 3 to 6 years
Workplace:: Minimum of 3 days in-office (4 days preferred). 2-3 days per week of travel to portfolio company locations on East Coast.
Visa:: Visa sponsorship available
Equity:: Competitive equity

Hybrid in New York, NY. Visa sponsorship available.

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About this Role

We are looking for a Forward Deployed Engineer with 3-6 years of experience to embed directly with Beacon's portfolio companies, ship agentic software into live operations, and own the outcomes end-to-end. This is a Palantir-style FDE role at a software holding company, you're not writing decks, you're building running systems that compound across an entire portfolio.

What you need

Full-stack proficiency: TypeScript or Python backend, React frontend, SQL, must be able to own end-to-end delivery solo.
Shipped production LLM/agentic software, real systems with evals, autonomy gating, and outcome tracking (not demos).
Prior embedded or customer-facing engineering experience (e.g., Palantir FDE, solutions engineer, or deploy-and-operate model).
Operator instincts, can read a P&L, translate business problems into technical wedges, and earn non-technical stakeholder trust quickly.
Based in or willing to relocate to New York, NY; comfortable with frequent travel to portfolio company sites.

What will you be doing?

Embed with portfolio companies (portcos) to understand their operating model, earn operator trust, and identify the 2, 3 highest-leverage workflow opportunities for agentic software.
Ship the wedge, build integrations, prompts, evals, and UI surfaces to land the first agentic loop at each portco using Beacon's core platform.
Operate and tune deployed systems post-launch, adjusting autonomy tiers and handing off cleanly to portfolio ops once stable.
Serve as the technical face of Beacon to portco GMs, building trust, setting expectations, and ensuring the system is seen as their use.
Bring patterns back to HQ and codify learnings into reusable playbooks that accelerate every future deployment in the same vertical.

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The listing gives the location as New York, NY. Minimum of 3 days in-office (4 days preferred). 2-3 days per week of travel to portfolio company locations on East Coast. Visa sponsorship available.