Clera

Forward Deployed Engineer

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Responsibilities

  • Lead customer discovery to understand data architectures, operational constraints, and business needs.
  • Scope and deliver technical proofs of value through production adoption plans and commitments.
  • Run product demonstrations, address technical objections, and guide architecture discussions with senior stakeholders.
  • Create repeatable pre-sales materials, discovery frameworks, and reference architectures.
  • Translate customer requirements and edge cases into product and engineering feedback.
  • 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 building or delivering technical data systems.
  • Experience in forward-deployed engineering, solutions architecture, deployment strategy, or customer-facing data and AI delivery.
  • A track record of taking enterprise proofs of value through production commitments, including procurement and security reviews.
  • Strong knowledge of modern data stacks, including warehouses, ETL/ELT pipelines, and data governance.
  • Production experience with LLM or agentic systems and sound judgment about their capabilities and limitations.
  • Experience leading technical discovery and demos with enterprise stakeholders and translating customer constraints into product feedback.
  • Python or SQL skills sufficient to prototype customer solutions.
  • Knowledge of knowledge graphs, semantic layers, ontologies, or entity resolution is beneficial.
  • Experience in regulated or air-gapped environments, European markets, or early-stage companies is valuable.

Benefits

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

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