Forward Deployed Engineer - Multiple Locations - $115K-$175K

Location: Multiple locations (NYC or SF Bay Area preferred, in-person)

Compensation: $115,000 - $175,000 per year, plus founding-hire level equity

Join a fast-growing public safety technology company as a Forward Deployed Engineer, owning customer outcomes end-to-end for law enforcement agencies solving real cases.

What You'll Own

- Scope pilots with new customer agencies and translate operational goals into technical deployment plans

- Ingest messy evidentiary data per customer, including digital extractions, call records, license plate data, body camera footage, and more

- Configure the product per-agency and write scripts or integrations when the product does not quite fit

- Sit with detectives, prosecutors, and analysts while they work, and translate workflow gaps into product improvements

- Own customer relationships from pilot through first renewal and expansion

- Feed learnings directly into the product roadmap

What You'll Bring

- Strong engineering skills, comfortable in Python and/or TypeScript, APIs, and data pipelines

- A genuinely customer-facing nature, comfortable operating in person with law enforcement professionals, not just over video calls

- A bias to action and comfort with ambiguity

- An owner mindset and mission alignment with public safety work

- Willingness to go through an FBI background check and CJIS clearance process (the team supports this process)

- Based in NYC or the SF Bay Area, or willing to travel more frequently if based elsewhere

Nice to Have

- Prior forward-deployed, solutions engineering, or implementation experience selling into non-tech-native customers

- Exposure to law enforcement, prosecution, intelligence, defense, or forensics work

- Familiarity with digital evidence formats

- Strong design sensibility

- Prior experience at a defense or public safety adjacent startup

This is a founding-level seat with real customer ownership and meaningful equity, working on technology that directly helps solve real crimes.