Clera

Senior Forward Deployed Engineer

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Responsibilities

  • Lead customer discovery around data architectures, operational constraints, and business needs.
  • Scope and deliver proofs of value from technical validation through production deployment commitments.
  • Run technical demonstrations, explain architectural tradeoffs, and address enterprise stakeholder objections.
  • Create reusable discovery frameworks, demo narratives, objection-handling guidance, and reference architectures.
  • Translate customer requirements and edge cases into actionable product feedback for engineering teams.
  • Partner with machine learning and infrastructure teams to support deployments and customer commitments.
  • Travel regularly to customer sites across the UK and Europe.

Requirements

  • At least 5 years of professional experience, including 2 to 3 years in a hands-on technical or data role.
  • Demonstrated success converting technical proofs of value into production deployments in enterprise B2B software.
  • Strong knowledge of data warehouses, ETL/ELT pipelines, data governance, and enterprise data architectures.
  • Working knowledge of production LLM and agentic systems, including their capabilities and limitations.
  • Experience leading technical discovery, demonstrations, proofs of concept, security reviews, and multi-stakeholder enterprise buying processes.
  • Ability to prototype for customers using Python or SQL and communicate technical feedback clearly to engineering teams.
  • Experience with regulated or air-gapped deployments, knowledge graphs, semantic layers, ontologies, or entity resolution is valuable.
  • Startup experience and multilingual skills are a plus.
  • Comfort working in ambiguous, customer-facing environments.

Benefits

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

Tech Stack

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Forward Deployed
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