Clera

Founding Forward Deployed Engineer

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Base Salary

$180k - $250k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Work with revenue and operations leaders to identify high-value business problems.
  • Lead customer onboarding, scope data access, and map undocumented warehouse schemas to business concepts.
  • Interview customer data and business teams to establish definitions and validate data mappings.
  • Build customer-facing signals, workflows, and the agent systems behind them.
  • Diagnose issues with agent outputs and define success measures with customers.
  • Build analyses that assess delivered business impact.
  • Create reusable validation frameworks, evaluation harnesses, and mapping tools.

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 and experience navigating undocumented data warehouse schemas.
  • A degree in statistics, mathematics, computer science, or a comparable quantitative field.
  • Applied data science or machine learning experience.
  • Knowledge of distributions, seasonality, validation design, calibration, and modeling.
  • Experience building custom agent setups beyond default implementations.
  • Ability to resolve conflicting business definitions through customer interviews and data validation, define metrics, and demonstrate business outcomes.
  • Careful, evidence-driven problem solving, comfort with ambiguity, and a stable employment history; founder experience is a plus.

Benefits

  • Base salary of $180,000 to $250,000 USD annually.
  • On-site work in New York City, United States.
  • Visa sponsorship is not available.

Tech Stack

dbtSQL

Categories

Forward Deployed
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