Forward Deployed Engineer

Clarasight

United States

Remote

USD 150,000 - 210,000

Full time

8 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Generous equity in an early-stage公司

Full medical, dental, and vision

$500 annual sustainability benefit

Direct exposure to a seasoned senior领导

Role grows in scope, responsibility, &

Job summary

Clarasight is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer who will sit within Engineering but spend most of their time in pre-sales and strategic customer engagements, collaborating closely with Sales and Customer Success. You will lead technical discovery, architect integrations and AI workflows during live sales cycles, and reconcile messy enterprise data into reliable, scalable product capabilities.

The role emphasizes turning customer-specific solutions into durable product features, with a strong

Qualifications

5-8+ years in software engineering, data engineering, or technical consulting.
Proven track record delivering in ambiguous, high-ownership environments.
Contribute to production codebases without hesitation.
Experience wrangling messy enterprise data.
Clear communication across technical and non-technical audiences.
Move fast and prioritize outcomes over credit.

Responsibilities

Own the technical relationship from discovery through contract close.
Collaborate with data science to translate business problems into prototypes and narratives.
Lead technical discovery with prospects and customers.
Design and build pipelines across fragmented travel, financial, and expense systems.
Reconcile, validate, and shape messy enterprise data into reliable forms.
Build durable frameworks, not just workarounds.
Apply AI where it adds value: enrichment, anomaly detection, forecasting, automation.
Turn customer-specific solutions into scalable product capabilities.
Feed learnings into Product and contribute to the full-stack production codebase.

Skills

Customer Engineering

Data Engineering

Production Code

AI/ML Awareness

Data Wrangling

Technical Storytelling

Cross-functional Collaboration

Job description

About Us

Join us in building the leading AI-Powered Mission Control for Corporate Travel. Some of the world's most recognizable companies, representing over $4T in market value, rely on Clarasight's software to reduce risks, save costs, protect revenues, and manage emissions aligned with business objectives and sustainability goals.

About You

You thrive at the intersection of deep technical craft and high-stakes customer engagement. This isn't a solutions engineering role where you demo software and hand off tickets - you want to be embedded in complex enterprise environments, building real things during live sales cycles and turning what you learn into durable product capabilities.
You contribute to production codebases without hesitation, and you've spent meaningful time wrangling messy enterprise data. You communicate clearly across audiences, move fast, and don't need your name on things - you need them to work.
You have strong opinions about where AI genuinely creates advantage and where it's noise, and you're energized by turning customer-specific solutions into scalable product.

About the Role

We are seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to sit within Engineering but spend most of their time in pre-sales and strategic customer engagements, working closely with Sales and Customer Success.
This is a build-and-own role: you will lead technical discovery with prospects and customers, architect and prototype integrations and AI workflows during live sales cycles, reconcile messy low-quality enterprise datasets, and contribute directly to Clarasight's full-stack production codebase.
Your job is to turn customer-specific solutions into scalable product capabilities - the best things you build shouldn't stay custom.

Key Responsibilities

Customer Engineering

Own the technical relationship from first discovery call through contract close.
Collaborate with the data science team to translate ambiguous, high-pressure business problems into working prototypes and clear technical narratives that build trust and accelerate deals.
Lead technical discovery with prospects and customers.

Data & Systems

Design and build pipelines across fragmented travel, financial, and expense systems.
Get hands-on with messy, low-quality enterprise data: reconciling, validating, and shaping it into something reliable.
Build frameworks that last, not workarounds that don't.

AI Application

Apply AI where it genuinely creates advantage: enrichment, anomaly detection, forecasting, automation.
Have strong opinions about where it helps and where it's noise.
Turn experiments into repeatable, scalable workflows.

Productization

Feed structured learnings directly into Product.
Turn the best customer‑specific solutions into part of the platform.
Contribute directly to Clarasight's full-stack production codebase.

You'll Be a Great Fit If You…

Have 5-8+ years in software engineering, data engineering, or technical consulting.
Have a track record of delivering in ambiguous, high-ownership environments.
Contribute to production codebases without hesitation.
Have spent meaningful time wrangling messy enterprise data.
Communicate clearly across technical and non-technical audiences.
Move fast and prioritize outcomes over credit.

Nice to Haves

Experience with fintech or enterprise financial systems.
Demonstrated outcomes applying AI/ML to real operational data.
Prior experience in a forward-deployed, solutions, or founding-engineer capacity at a startup.
Exposure to corporate travel, expense, or procurement data.

Diverse Perspectives

Innovation comes from teams where different experiences, backgrounds, and ways of thinking collide. We actively seek people who bring something to the table that we don't already have. Come prepared to tell us what that is.

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