Forward Deployed Engineer

Eagle; New York (NY); On-site; USD 150,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive cash compensation

Founding equity

Full healthcare benefits

In-person office in NYC

Job summary

Eagle is looking for a Forward Deployed Engineer to work alongside engineering teams, utilizing AI to transform workflows. This role involves deep collaboration, understanding engineering practices, and deploying bespoke tools quickly.

Compensation ranges from $150K–$300K based on experience, with full healthcare benefits and an in-person office in NYC. Candidates should have a strong curiosity and excellent communication skills to thrive in this pioneering environment.

Qualifications

• Deep curiosity for workflows and markets.
• Strong communication skills for earning trust.
• Ability to distill conflicting user feedback.

Responsibilities

• Embed on-site with engineers to understand workflows.
• Own outcomes from discovery to deployment.
• Ship fast and adapt to deployment demands.
• Collaborate with the CTO on technical direction.

Skills

Curiosity

Communication skills

Problem-solving

Technical knowledge

Tools

LLMs

Browser automation

Job description

About Eagle

We’re on a mission to radically transform the way we design and construct our built environment.

Backed by Lightspeed Venture Partners, Eagle acquires and transforms civil, structural, and MEP engineering firms with applied AI. We’re an AI laboratory dedicated to providing engineers with the tools they need to solve the world’s hardest infrastructure, energy, and climate problems.

By arming designers with frontier technology, our ambition is to build the most valuable, talent-dense engineering firm in the United States.

The opportunity

Our core thesis: 85% of what engineers do today is theoretically automatable, yet less than 5% has actually been touched by AI. That gap is the largest of any profession. Our plan is to close it by acquiring engineering firms, building purpose-built tools for their staff, and compounding that proprietary intelligence across acquisitions.

As a Forward Deployed Engineer, you're the tip of the spear. You'll embed inside the firms we acquire—sitting beside structural, civil, and MEP engineers who've often never worked with a software company—find the workflows where technology creates the most leverage, and ship tools that work in weeks, not quarters. You own the outcome, not a ticket. And after winning at the edge, you'll work with the rest of the team to compound what you learned into universal product leverage for Eagle. You get a front‑row seat to building a company from zero—architecture decisions, firm acquisitions, product strategy—on a problem domain that's barely been touched by AI.

What you’ll do

• Embed on‑site with engineers at the firms we acquire—watch how they work, earn their trust, and find the highest‑leverage problems to solve
• Own outcomes end‑to‑end: discovery, build, deployment, debugging in prod, and iterating live with the people using it
• Ship fast and bespoke when the deployment demands it—then feed every lesson back into a platform that compounds across firms
• Do whatever the deployment needs: wire up integrations to legacy Windows‑native AEC software, write the scraper, or stand up an off‑the‑shelf tool to test an idea before you build the real thing
• Collaborate directly with the CTO on technical direction, engineering culture, and what we build next

What we look for

• Has a deep curiosity for how things work—an organization, a workflow, a market
• Isn’t afraid to expose their ignorance and is constantly asking why
• Has the poise and communication skills to earn trust with people who’ve never worked with a tech company before—on their turf, in their language
• Can sit with noisy, conflicting feedback from users and distill it into a clear opinion about what to build
• Low ego, high agency: no task is beneath you if it unblocks the deployment
• Is willing to get on a plane with us
• Has experience or interest in LLMs, agent frameworks, RAG, browser automation, or doc parsing

Compensation

• Competitive cash compensation ($150K–$300K depending on experience)
• Founding equity, scaled to scope
• Full healthcare benefits
• In‑person office in NYC