Clera

Senior Forward Deployed Engineer

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Responsibilities

  • Lead customer discovery to understand data architectures, technical constraints, and business needs.
  • Scope and deliver proofs of value from technical validation through production commitments.
  • Run demos, address technical objections, and lead architecture discussions with enterprise stakeholders and senior engineers.
  • Develop reusable discovery frameworks, demo narratives, objection-handling materials, and reference architectures.
  • Translate customer constraints and edge cases into actionable product feedback for engineering teams.
  • Partner with machine learning and infrastructure teams to deliver customer deployments.
  • Travel regularly to customer sites across the UK and Europe.

Requirements

  • At least 5 years of professional experience, including 2 to 3 years in a hands-on technical or data role.
  • Track record of converting technical proofs of value into production commitments in enterprise B2B software.
  • Strong working knowledge of data warehouses, ETL and ELT pipelines, and data governance.
  • Experience with enterprise technical discovery, demos, procurement, security reviews, and multi-stakeholder buying processes.
  • Working knowledge of production LLM and agentic systems, including their capabilities and limitations.
  • Experience owning end-to-end proofs of concept and communicating structured product feedback to engineering teams.
  • Python or SQL skills sufficient to prototype with customers.
  • Knowledge of graphs, semantic layers, ontologies, or entity resolution is valuable.
  • Experience in regulated or air-gapped environments, European markets, or an early-stage data or AI company is a plus.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work in New York City.
  • Regular travel to customer sites across the UK and Europe.
  • Visa sponsorship is not available.

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Forward Deployed
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