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Founding Forward Deployed Engineer
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Role overview Work directly with law enforcement and prosecutors to address practical challenges in sensitive investigative workflows. You’ll build solutions for immediate user needs and turn frontline feedback into product changes, helping shape software intended to support public safety. The work calls for close customer collaboration, frequent travel, and comfort adapting to changing priorities.
Responsibilities - Learn how law enforcement and prosecutors manage evidence and identify their needs. - Build practical responses to urgent problems, including one-off analyses and custom integrations. - Spend time with customers through regular travel to understand their work. - Turn feedback into implemented features, pull requests, and clear technical specifications. - Help guide product direction as requirements evolve.
Requirements - At least three years of experience building and delivering production software. - Experience solving user problems and working directly with end users to turn needs into technical solutions. - Full-stack ability to deliver end-to-end solutions, including custom work that may not be designed to scale. - Experience in a fast-paced early-stage environment, with autonomy and comfort handling ambiguity. - Strong technical background, including experience at a high-performing organization or program and at an early-stage startup. - Willingness to travel extensively and complete applicable background checks and clearance processes.
Nice to have - Founding-stage technical leadership or other standout technical achievements. - Interest in public safety and government technology; experience in regulated or sensitive domains, investigative workflows, or customer-facing field work.
Benefits and work setup - Base salary of $130,000–$215,000 annually, with founding-level equity and performance-based bonuses. - Visa sponsorship is available. - Hybrid in San Francisco, with New York also listed as a location. Remote work with regular travel may be considered for exceptional candidates.