Forward Deployed Engineer - Applied AI
Wonderschool6 months ago
Responsibilities
- Work directly with users and internal teams to identify high-leverage problems and ship product solutions.
- Write production code for approximately 50% of the role and ship weekly improvements across the customer journey.
- Build and deploy AI-powered tools that reduce manual effort and improve experiences for providers, parents, and government partners.
- Automate onboarding flows, proposal generation, reporting, and other operational workflows.
- Own the full loop from user discovery and solution design through coding, testing, deployment, and adoption monitoring.
- Collaborate with sales, onboarding, and account management teams to improve customer experiences and unlock growth.
- Prioritize work based on business impact and drive measurable improvements in conversion, retention, revenue, and operational efficiency.
Requirements
- Experience independently starting a company, building products that gained users, or generating revenue.
- Ability to talk with users regularly and translate insights into product decisions.
- Technical ability to ship production code independently, with experience in Python, JavaScript, or similar languages.
- Experience using AI/LLMs and developer tools such as Windsurf and Cursor.
- Business experience through consulting, P&L management, business school, or similar experience prioritizing by ROI.
- Comfort operating in ambiguity with high autonomy and ownership.
- Willingness to work in a high-trust, high-impact, in-person environment and travel as needed.
Benefits
- In-person work environment
- Direct impact on families, small business owners, and communities
- Founder-like ownership of important company priorities
- Small, fast-moving team with a bias for action
Tech Stack
Categories
Forward Deployed
About Wonderschool
Wonderschool builds software and a marketplace that help in-home child care and preschool providers start, operate, and fill programs, and help families find care. It also offers government-facing tools to analyze supply, manage funding, and support local providers. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in San Francisco, this privately held company operates across the United States and earns revenue from software services, marketplace fees, and public-sector contracts.