Forward Deployed Engineer – Applied AI
Wonderschool2 days ago
Responsibilities
- Work directly with users and internal teams to identify pain points and high-leverage opportunities.
- Write production code and ship weekly improvements across the customer journey.
- Build and deploy AI-powered tooling to reduce manual effort and improve customer experiences.
- Automate onboarding flows, proposal generation, reporting, and other operational workflows.
- Own the full product loop from user discovery and solution design through coding, testing, deployment, and adoption monitoring.
- Prioritize initiatives based on business impact and collaborate with sales, onboarding, and account management teams.
- Travel regularly to meet with clients as needed.
Requirements
- Demonstrated builder or founder experience, such as starting a company, launching products with users, or generating revenue independently.
- Ability to speak with users regularly and translate insights into product decisions.
- Ability to independently ship production code using Python, JavaScript, or similar languages.
- Experience using AI/LLMs and developer tools such as Windsurf and Cursor.
- Business or consulting experience, P&L management, or business school experience, with the ability to prioritize based on ROI.
- Comfort operating in ambiguity with significant autonomy and ownership.
Benefits
- Direct impact on families, childcare providers, small businesses, and communities.
- Founder-like ownership over strategically important company priorities.
- Small, fast-moving team with a bias for action and opportunities to ship weekly.
- In-person work five to six days per week.
- Regular client travel is required.
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.