Forward Deployed Engineer (New York)

Forward Deployed Engineer (New York)

Company: Beacon Software
Location: New York, NY (in office 3+ days per week, 4 preferred; 2-3 days per week travel to East Coast portfolio companies)
Compensation: $185,000 - $240,000 + competitive equity
Employment Type: Full-time
Visa Sponsorship: Visa sponsorship available

About Beacon Software

Beacon Software is a new kind of software holding company that buys, builds, grows and holds great vertical market software businesses. The team are technology entrepreneurs, not a financial firm.

Founded in 2024, Beacon has raised $250M and has about 85 people.

The Role

Beacon is hiring Forward Deployed Engineers (3-6 years) to embed with its portfolio companies, ship agentic software into live operations and own the outcomes end to end. This is a Palantir-style role: you build running systems that compound across an entire portfolio.

What You Will Do

• Embed with portfolio companies, earn operator trust and find the highest-leverage workflows for agentic software.
• Build integrations, prompts, evals and UI to land the first agentic loop at each company.
• Operate and tune deployed systems after launch and hand off cleanly once stable.
• Act as the technical face of Beacon to portfolio company leaders.
• Codify learnings into reusable playbooks for future deployments.

What You Bring

• 3-6 years of full-stack, customer-facing software engineering or forward deployed engineering
• TypeScript or Python backend, React frontend and SQL, with solo end-to-end delivery
• Shipped production LLM or agentic software with evals and outcome tracking
• Operator instincts and the ability to earn non-technical stakeholder trust

Nice to Have

• Snowflake, Databricks or Apache Iceberg
• Vertical software experience

Benefits

Health, vision and dental insurance.

Tech Stack

TypeScript, Python, React, SQL, LLMs, agentic workflows, evals, Snowflake, Databricks, Apache Iceberg