Founding Forward-Deployed AI Engineer (Remote)

FDE Times; United States; Remote; USD 160,000 - 270,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Vision, Dental

401(k)

Home office stipend

Annual education & wellness stipends

Daily lunches

Job summary

Glean is building the next generation of enterprise AI surfaces in a fully remote role. As a founding member of the forward deployed team, you’ll own high‑impact product areas and work directly with FDs, the C‑suite, and Glean's engineers to define and ship transformative capabilities at enterprise scale.

You’ll identify unsolved business problems, validate with customers, and partner with executives to align product hypotheses with business outcomes.

Qualifications

• 4+ years in technical roles with a track record of shipping production software.
• Deep familiarity with LLMs, retrieval systems, and evaluation frameworks.
• Experience driving technology adoption inside large enterprises.
• A technical degree in CS, engineering, math, or a related field.

Responsibilities

• 0‑to‑1 product creation: identify unsolved problems and design/ship new products.
• Lead deep opportunity discovery and validate hypotheses with customers.
• Be a technical partner to the C‑suite and explain risks and value to executives.
• Scale what works by ensuring repeatability with R&D and engineering.
• Stay at the frontier by shaping platform capabilities with the core team.

Skills

Production AI experience

Full‑stack technical depth

Builder's judgment

Curiosity and scrappiness

Customer instinct

Willingness to travel

Strategic communication with C-suite

Education

Technical degree (CS/Engineering/Math or related)

Tools

LLMs

Retrieval systems

Evaluation frameworks

Job description

Glean is building the next generation of enterprise AI surfaces in a fully remote role. As a founding member of the forward deployed team, you’ll own high‑impact product areas and work directly with FDs, the C‑suite, and Glean's engineers to define and ship transformative capabilities at enterprise scale.

You’ll identify unsolved business problems, validate with customers, and partner with executives to align product hypotheses with business outcomes.