Forward Deployed Engineer — Closure

Forward Deployed Engineer — Closure

Location: New York City, NY or San Francisco, CA (Onsite)
Compensation: $115,000 – $175,000 base + equity
Employment Type: Full-Time

About the Role

Closure is hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer to own customer deployments end to end — working directly with police departments, prosecutors, investigators, and analysts to configure implementations, build integrations, and translate complex evidence workflows into production-ready systems. This is a mission-driven role supporting public safety and government work.

What You'll Own

• Own deployments from pilot through renewal
• Work directly with police departments, prosecutors, investigators, and analysts
• Configure product implementations and customer-specific workflows
• Write scripts, integrations, and tooling to support deployments
• Ingest and normalize complex evidence datasets
• Translate customer feedback into product improvements
• Partner closely with engineering and product teams
• Travel onsite with customers as needed

Requirements

• Strong engineering skills with Python and/or TypeScript
• Experience building APIs, integrations, data pipelines, and production tools
• Comfortable working directly with customers
• Owner mentality with strong bias toward action
• Comfortable operating in ambiguous environments
• Mission alignment with public safety and government work
• Able to pass FBI background check and CJIS clearance
• Willing to travel as needed

Nice to Have

• Prior Forward Deployed Engineer, Solutions Engineer, Implementation Engineer, Technical Consultant, or similar experience
• Experience with law enforcement, defense, intelligence, investigations, digital forensics, prosecution, or public safety
• Experience handling messy real-world datasets
• Familiarity with evidence sources such as Cellebrite, GrayKey, ALPR, body camera footage, call records, jail calls, PDFs, and social media data
• Strong customer-facing communication skills
• Experience at startups serving government or public sector customers

Target Backgrounds

Strong signals include Palantir FDE experience, Anduril, Magnet Forensics, defense contractors, public safety technology companies, technical implementation engineers, solutions architects with coding ability, and military intelligence or digital forensics backgrounds.

This Role Is NOT For

• Pure sales engineers who only demo products
• Career consultants without shipped outcomes
• Candidates who view public safety customers negatively
• Engineers without customer-facing experience

Logistics

• Role is onsite in either New York City or San Francisco
• Must be able to pass FBI background check and CJIS clearance
• Travel required as needed for customer onsite visits

Shortlisted candidates will be contacted by David Joseph & Co., the recruiting partner managing this search on behalf of Closure.