Clera

Founding Forward Deployed Engineer

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Base Salary

$180k - $250k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Partner with revenue and operations leaders to understand business objectives and identify valuable problems.
  • Lead customer onboarding, scope data access, and map undocumented warehouse schemas to business concepts.
  • Interview customer data and business teams to reconcile definitions and validate the resulting ontology.
  • Build customer-facing signals and workflows, including custom agent configurations, and troubleshoot their outputs.
  • Define success measures, analyze results, and build evidence-based cases for customer impact.
  • Develop reusable validation frameworks, evaluation harnesses, and mapping tools to accelerate deployments.

Requirements

  • At least 3 years of experience in a technical, customer-facing role such as forward deployed engineering, solutions engineering, or software engineering with substantial customer exposure.
  • Strong SQL and dbt skills, with deep familiarity navigating data warehouses and undocumented schemas.
  • A quantitative degree in statistics, mathematics, computer science, or a comparable field, plus a foundation in data science or machine learning.
  • Applied statistics and modeling experience, including distributions, seasonality, validation design, and calibration.
  • Experience creating custom agent setups beyond default implementations and building analytical cases tied to customer outcomes.
  • Ability to resolve inconsistent business definitions through interviews and data validation, with careful attention to detail and comfort working through ambiguity.
  • Founder experience or a non-traditional path into engineering is a plus.

Benefits

  • Base salary of $180,000 to $250,000 USD annually.
  • On-site work in New York City, United States.

Tech Stack

dbtSQL

Categories

Forward Deployed
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