Upside

Staff Forward Deployed Engineer, GTM Platform

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24 days ago

Base Salary

$214k - $245k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Build the first version of an AI-native platform for go-to-market teams, including agentic orchestration, automation, and revenue-team interfaces.
  • Embed with revenue teams to understand their workflows and ship systems that materially improve how the work is performed.
  • Own the platform’s architecture, technical direction, tooling choices, and engineering patterns.
  • Move prototypes into production quickly and iterate as AI capabilities evolve.
  • Measure success by business outcomes and the value unlocked for revenue teams.
  • Partner with security and infrastructure teams to ensure the platform is sound and supportable.
  • Document technical decisions and tradeoffs for future engineers.

Requirements

  • Approximately 8 years of staff-level engineering experience or comparable depth, with a history of owning systems end to end.
  • Experience building greenfield systems, early-stage products, or internal platforms from zero to one.
  • Production experience building with LLMs and AI APIs, including prompt design, output evaluation, and reliability iteration.
  • Fluency with AI-assisted development tools.
  • Strong technical judgment, adaptability, and ability to refactor as requirements change.
  • Interest in and curiosity about revenue and operations workflows.
  • Ability to work independently amid ambiguity and bring stakeholders along.
  • Clear communication with both technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Preferred: familiarity with CRM and revenue data models such as Salesforce or HubSpot.
  • Preferred: experience as an early or founding startup engineer or builder of an internal tooling function.
  • Preferred: familiarity with retrieval-augmented generation, vector databases, embedding-based search, marketplaces, high-growth environments, or Snowflake.
  • The company is language agnostic; current prototypes use React, TypeScript, and Python.

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision coverage starting on Day 1.
  • Equity through ISOs and a 401(k) program.
  • Family planning programs and paid parental leave.
  • Physical fitness and wellness memberships plus emotional and mental health support programs.
  • Unlimited PTO, 10 paid federal holidays, and an annual week-long Winter Break.
  • Flexible work environment.
  • Lunch reimbursement for in-office employees.
  • Employee Resource Groups and a Learning and Development stipend.

Tech Stack

Categories

Forward Deployed
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