Maybern

Principal Forward Deployed Engineer

Maybern
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3 months ago

Base Salary

$230k - $260k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Lead early-stage discovery with non-technical executives and scope engagements across AI, forecasting, automation, decision support, and platform integration
  • Own senior client relationships from discovery through production adoption, including scope, timelines, and expectations
  • Architect custom systems across AI, optimization, simulation, and decision-support workflows with the engineering team
  • Support pre-sales conversations and client pitches with technical credibility
  • Identify bespoke customer work that should become reusable product capability
  • Mentor engineers and raise the team’s technical execution standards
  • Lead engagements end-to-end and manage technical and client-facing work streams

Requirements

  • 10+ years of customer-facing technical experience in consulting, enterprise software, or forward-deployed engineering
  • Strong record of leading ambiguous client initiatives from discovery through delivery
  • Deep expertise in Python, SQL, system design, and analytical application architecture
  • Strong applied AI or ML experience
  • Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills, including proposal writing, engagement scoping, and difficult client situations
  • Experience leading complex end-to-end engagements across technical and client-facing work streams
  • Comfort working with senior, non-technical clients and translating vague problems into credible technical plans
  • Preferred experience with the Snowflake AI Data Platform
  • Preferred experience in finance, private markets, capital markets, fund administration, or enterprise decision systems
  • Preferred experience with optimization, probabilistic systems, simulation engines, or mathematical modeling platforms
  • Preferred experience turning bespoke client systems into reusable product or platform primitives

Benefits

  • Competitive salary and equity package
  • Comprehensive healthcare benefits with 100% of medical, dental, and vision premiums covered
  • HSA and FSA plans
  • Family-friendly policies and paid parental leave
  • Flexible schedule and flexible PTO/sick leave
  • WFH as needed
  • 401(k)
  • Approximately three days per week in the New York office and roughly 25% travel for client engagements

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Forward Deployed
Maybern

About Maybern

51-200 employees

Named to the 2026 Forbes Fintech 50, Maybern is the system of record for private funds. We're building category-defining software for private funds. Our mission: empower the office of the modern Fund CFO to shift from operational validator to strategic leader. We encode fund logic into a structured, computable data model. Every number is auditable, versioned, and traceable. When fund data is structured and correct by design, you can build on top of it, enabling new insights not possible across spreadsheets.