Clera

Forward Deployed Engineer

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Responsibilities

  • Conduct customer discovery, technical deep-dives, architecture whiteboarding, demonstrations, and technical objection handling with enterprise stakeholders.
  • Run proofs of value end-to-end, including scoping, technical validation, competitive positioning, and conversion into production commitments.
  • Deploy and prototype solutions in customer environments while partnering with ML and infrastructure teams to deliver against customer commitments.
  • Build and own the pre-sales playbook, including demo narratives, discovery frameworks, objection handling, and reference architectures.
  • Translate customer constraints and edge cases into structured product feedback for engineering.
  • Represent the company technically on site and travel regularly to customer locations across the UK and Europe.

Requirements

  • Five or more years of total professional experience, including two to three years in a hands-on technical or data role building systems.
  • A demonstrated record of converting technical proofs of value into production commitments in enterprise B2B software deals.
  • Deep working knowledge of warehouses, ETL/ELT pipelines, data governance, and enterprise data architecture and operations.
  • Working knowledge of production LLM and agentic systems and their capabilities and limitations.
  • Experience conducting technical discovery and demos with data architects, platform leads, CIOs, and other enterprise stakeholders.
  • Ability to navigate enterprise procurement, security reviews, and multi-stakeholder buying processes.
  • Experience at a field-heavy data or AI infrastructure company or helping define a startup go-to-market motion from scratch.
  • Enough Python or SQL to prototype in front of customers.
  • Knowledge of knowledge graphs, semantic layers, ontologies, or entity resolution is preferred.
  • Experience deploying into regulated or air-gapped environments and multilingual or multi-European-market experience are preferred.
  • Willingness and ability to travel regularly to customer sites across the UK and Europe.

Benefits

  • Hybrid role based in New York, NY.
  • Regular travel to customer sites across the UK and Europe is required.
  • Visa sponsorship is not available.

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