Clera

Forward Deployed Engineer

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Responsibilities

  • Lead customer discovery covering data architectures, operating constraints, and deployment requirements.
  • Scope and deliver proofs of value from technical validation through production commitments.
  • Run product demonstrations, address technical objections, and discuss architecture with senior engineering and business stakeholders.
  • Create repeatable materials and approaches for discovery, demonstrations, objection handling, and reference architectures.
  • Translate customer edge cases and technical constraints into actionable product feedback for engineering.
  • Partner with machine learning and infrastructure teams to deliver customer-aligned 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 hands-on engineering or data work.
  • Demonstrated success personally converting enterprise B2B software proofs of value into production commitments.
  • Experience with procurement, security reviews, and multi-stakeholder enterprise buying processes.
  • Strong knowledge of data warehouses, ETL or ELT pipelines, and enterprise data governance.
  • Experience leading technical discovery and demonstrations with enterprise stakeholders and delivering proofs of concept through production deployment.
  • Working knowledge of production LLM and agentic systems, including their capabilities and limitations.
  • Ability to prototype with Python or SQL and communicate customer needs clearly to engineering teams.
  • Valuable experience with knowledge graphs, semantic layers, ontologies, entity resolution, regulated or air-gapped deployments, or multiple European markets.
  • Comfort with ambiguity and startup environments; multilingual ability is a plus.

Benefits

  • Hybrid role based in New York, United States.
  • Regular travel to customer sites across the UK and Europe.

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