Forward Deployed Engineer

Inventure; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Visa transfers (OPT/H1B)

Hybrid onsite schedule

Job summary

Inventure is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to embed with portfolio companies, building agentic software that integrates into live operations. You will own end-to-end delivery, from design to deployment, delivering measurable leverage for each business unit.

You should have shipped production LLM systems, be fluent in TypeScript or Python and React, and be comfortable with hybrid onsite work and domestic travel.

Qualifications

• Shipped production LLM and agentic software with evals and autonomy gating.
• Able to translate a business problem into a technical wedge directly.
• Experience as a Forward Deployed Engineer or equivalent in a high-growth startup.

Responsibilities

• Embed with portfolio companies to learn operating models and identify high-leverage workflows.
• Ship the wedge: build integrations, prompts, evals and UI surfaces for agentic loops.
• Operate and tune deployed systems after launch with ongoing handoff to portfolio teams.
• Serve as the technical face to portfolio GMs, aligning expectations and leverage.
• Codify patterns into reusable playbooks for future deployments.

Skills

TypeScript

Python

React

SQL

LLM deployment

Job description

We've partnered with a fast-growing software holding company that is rewriting how vertical market software gets built, scaled and held for the long term. They have just closed a $250M Series B backed by an exceptional roster: General Catalyst, D1 Capital, CPMG, and the family offices of some of technology's most successful founders, including Patrick and John Collison, Tony Xu, Eric Glyman and Karim Atiyeh. Founded by operators who have scaled a category-defining consumer marketplace and invested at a top-tier venture firm, the team runs on permanent, committed capital and a simple thesis: buy great software businesses and compound their growth through agentic software rather than headcount.

This is a rare opportunity to own a Palantir-style Forward Deployed Engineer mandate at a company where your work compounds across an entire portfolio. You will not be writing decks or shipping throwaway demos. You will embed directly inside real operating companies, ship agentic systems into live operations, and own the outcomes end to end. What you build for one business can ship to every business in the same vertical, so the leverage is enormous and it starts on day one. Compensation sits above the typical range for this experience band, with competitive equity on top. If you want to sit at the intersection of engineering, operations and real business impact, this is the seat.

The Role:

As a Forward Deployed Engineer, you will:

• Embed with portfolio companies to learn their operating model, earn operator trust, and pinpoint the two or three highest-leverage workflows ripe for agentic software.
• Ship the wedge: build the integrations, prompts, evals and UI surfaces needed to land the first agentic loop at each company on the core platform.
• Operate and tune deployed systems after launch, adjusting autonomy tiers and handing off cleanly to portfolio operations once they are stable.
• Serve as the technical face to portfolio company GMs, setting expectations and making sure the system is understood as their leverage.
• Bring patterns back to HQ and codify them into reusable playbooks that accelerate every future deployment in the vertical.

About You:

• You are a full-stack engineer who can own delivery solo: TypeScript or Python on the backend, React on the frontend, and fluent in SQL.
• You have shipped production LLM and agentic software, real systems with evals, autonomy gating and outcome tracking, not prototypes.
• You have operator instincts: you can read a P&L, translate a business problem into a technical wedge, and win the trust of non-technical stakeholders quickly.
• One of these backgrounds fits you: a Palantir or comparable Forward Deployed Engineer, a solutions engineer, or an embedded deploy-and-operate engineer at a high-growth, venture-backed startup.
• Nice to have: a track record at a well-known technology company or a fast-scaling startup, with clear tenure and progression rather than short, scattered stints.
• You are based in or willing to relocate to New York, San Francisco or Toronto, comfortable with a hybrid onsite schedule and regular domestic travel to portfolio sites. The company is open to visa transfers such as OPT and H1B.